<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Objective:
Deferred EA? Yes</p>
<p>SAT I : (took SAT 1 and 11 but did worse than ACT - so doesn't count, right?)</p>
<p>ACT: 33 (will be higher in february! hopefully it reaches them in time)</p>
<p>SAT II:</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.97</p>
<p>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%, but near the end of it. i'm current salutatorian, but we have several valedictorians.</p>
<p>AP (place score in parenthesis): [school doesn't offer AP's before senior year]</p>
<p>IB (place score in parenthesis):</p>
<p>Senior Year Course Load: ap calc, ap chem, ap english, physics, writing, spanish 4, college english</p>
<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): state scholar...but even that's not so hard to recieve.</p>
<p>Subjective:
extracurr.: class office (class pres), student government, track, cross country (captain), dance, spanish club (former leadership position), speech team, math team, swim class for fun, adventure club, key club</p>
<p>Job/Work Experience: summer job w/ lot of hrs, two other jobs during school year with about 14 hrs a week</p>
<p>Volunteer/Community service: volunteer at hospital in extended care unit, student committee to raise money for cancer</p>
<p>Summer Activities: job! (had other activites but didn't list them on app) did talk about triathlons and races that i've done and continue to be interested in, though</p>
<p>Essays: one on the way my life has gone because of childhood...difficulties. not a sob story, though - and i think it was pretty good. other on the world and the mounting problems, why i want to do something for it...unsure how that was, but i think it was probably decent-prettygoodish? somewhere in that range.</p>
<p>Teacher Recommendation: waived right to see them, but i'm pretty sure both were pretty good.</p>
<p>Counselor Rec: told me he made them really good</p>
<p>Additional Rec: none</p>
<p>Interview: area not covered - should i request one?</p>
<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): IL</p>
<p>Country (if international applicant):
School Type: public, not prestigious in the least bit</p>
<p>Ethnicity: White</p>
<p>Gender: F</p>
<p>Income Bracket: middle</p>
<p>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): well...siblings all attend not-so-great schools...so maybe it shows my initiative and how much i've accomplished on my own</p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: um...act score not great but in range (they always say about 30-34). um... class pres, work, my situation considering where i'm from (geographics)</p>
<p>Weaknesses: dipped into too many things and didn't get involved enough, didn't fill out my application well and forgot to explain things, SAT scores might've hurt if they did look at them anyway, act score (funny, i just listed as strength) isn't standout. honestly, my application wasn't filled out well at all. oh! and no statewide-national awards, plus school doesn't give out any really, so i was basically screwed in that category.</p>
<p>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I jump between theories. Sometimes I think I was deferred because, although I have a really great shot in the regular admission, I'm definitely not one of Yale's strongest applicants... and early action is for the strongest usually. Other times I think I was deferred because, although there is no way in hell they're letting me in, they didn't want to toss away a 33 and bunch of activities because plenty of people get in with less.</p>
<p>General Comments: It's strange - I look at some of the deferred people and they're incredibly strong, and then I look at others and I can't believe they didn't just get rejected. Some of the people who were accepted, even, don't seem nearly as strong as some of the deferred and basically the same as the rest of us. I wish I could see this process clearly, because it seems like lottery.</p>