<p>Doing this for my son who is not a CC aficionado (please let the HTML work right!)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Pratt School of Engineering</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 760 CR, 800 M, 800 W
[</em>] ACT: Did not take
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 780 Bio
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Based on 100 - school only reports weighted: 97.74
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Does not rank, but top 5% of 439
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): AB Calc 5, AP Lang 5, AP Bio 5, BC Calc 5
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Comp Sci, AP Lit, AP Enviro, AP Art History, AP Physics C, Latin 4 (no AP available)
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Academic Achievement Award - Latin (Fresh year), Academic Achievement Award - Math (Junior year), AP Scholar with Honor, NMSF, Gold Medal National Latin Exam, Two Silver Medals, National Latin Exam</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Chess club (co-founder), Mock Trial 10-12 (Lead Attorney 11-12, Captain 12), JV Tennis 10-11, NHS, Church youth group 9th-11th
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Private math tutor, Camp counselor at tennis camp 11th
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 30 Hour Famine - 4 years, Week long mission trips with Group WorkCamps 9th-12th
[</em>] Summer Activities: See mission trips above, intensive tennis camp 9th-10th
[<em>] Essays: Common App - person admired - Calc teacher, also love of logic, EC essay - mock trial as an alternative way to use engineering brain, Duke Supplement - balance of intellect and sports along with top notch engineering school. Wrote a third essay about learning to play tennis later in life and the challenges and hard work involved in that.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Hopefully excellent. Latin - had teacher for 4 year, Calc - had for two years and he really understood how my son thinks.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: No idea what she wrote
[</em>] Additional Rec: Didn’t have one
[li] Interview: Went well and was light and casual. Talked about sports and about interviewers daughter who is a freshman at Duke</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: was <140,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None that we know of. URM of the kids at the top of the class at our high school? Only white NMSF of 23! ;)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: SAT’s, GPA, skills line up well with desired engineering major
[</em>] Weaknesses: EC’s, leadership
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: We knew he was a great match for Pratt because of how easily logic, math, programming, etc., comes to him. Duke was THE perfect school for him with the balance of intellect and school spirit, location, great Mock Trial team, perfect tennis for his ability, great people of all different types. Hopefully going ED helped to express this strong desire. The great test scores in the technical subjects probably also helped.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General Comments:</p>
<p>Wondered if we should go ED because of financial reasons, and thought he still had a good chance RD, but Duke was by far and away his number one choice, and that’s what ED is for, right? One and done!! 
He’s VERY excited to finally know for sure and to wear his new Duke sweatshirt to school tomorrow!!</p>
And the fact that the Dean of Undergraduate Admissions basically convinced me to change my early app from Stanford to Duke.