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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): CR 680 M 740 W 670 (2090) never did summer sat prep...
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] SAT II: US 760 Chem 770 Math 800
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.94
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): no rank, but counselor told me around 13-20 out of >500
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc BC (5) World (5) US (4) Chem (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 8 classes- Chamber Orchestra, AP Lit, AP Stats, AP Studio Art, AP Economics, AP Government, AP Biology, Water Polo / Swimming
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): some regional piano awards, a school award for excellence in the arts, school film fest award. I have no major awards you guys are thinking about though...</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Piano for 12 Years (won awards, am pretty good, sent an awesome CD supplement), Viola in school's top orchestra all 4 years, Am an Artist (painting, sketching, animation, computer graphics, I sent a supplement w/ my flash animations), Water Polo, Swimming, play the ukulele
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Tutored math to fellow highschoolers.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Key Club Board member 2 years, also volunteer at church & hospital
[</em>] Summer Activities: Intense water polo camp, Volunteer at hospital, community college class (Spanish in 07, physics in 08).
[<em>] Essays: About my plans to mix my ambitions to become a surgeon w/ my artistic skills & dexterity. Also talked about how duke is awesome. For the research essay, I said I never did formal research, but have read a lot about quantum physics on my own just for fun.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: VERY VERY Unique. From both my teachers. One of them actually told me NOT to get a rec letter from him since he wouldn't write one too positive, but had to go through crazy experience to get change of heart from him.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: good?
[</em>] Additional Rec: none
[li] Interview: alright. I dressed in all blue.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): California
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): n/a
[<em>] School Type: New Large public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Korean
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Under 100,000? don't know. My dad did all my FAFSA for me.
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: I'm very unique w/ my ambitiousness & passion for everything I do, which is a lot of different stuff, arts, sports, music... Also sent very strong art supplements.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Low SAT. Rank not top 1%? Personal essay quite a few errors in grammar and typos that i didn't notice
[li] Why you think you were accepted: I'm unique.[/li][/ul]General Comments: </p>
<p> Really funny actually, I had my laptop w/ me & was not home. I was in a neighborhood that was not mine waiting for sister to finish her flute lesson w/ my mom, & I walked around a bunch of houses trying to steal wifi. When I got a good house to steal wifi from, I sat in a tiny corner in between this random home's garage and a pillar, scrunched up sitting down on the concrete driveway. A guy who walked by to get his mail stared at me.</p>
<p>Well,</p>
<p>I didn't hesitate 1 bit when checking my decision. Had no emotion. At all. Was just going through the motions not expecting rejection, acceptance, or waitlist, it just didn't sink in what I was doing. It finally did when I read "Congratulations!" .</p>
<p>I jumped, and screamed in excitement, and ran to my mom to tell her. A woman walking her dog saw us and thought I was insane. LOL</p>