<p>** Decision:
Accepted (Early Acceptance)**</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2270 (750 CR, 740 M, 780 W)
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chemistry, 800 Bio M, 700 French w/o listening
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75 UW, 4.47 W
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is
unavailable): School does not rank
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Took French, Calc AB, Chem, Bio, Lang, and US Govt. All 5s.
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Stat, AP Econ (Micro and Macro), AP Lit, AP Psych, Anatomy, French Film, Honors Physics, and Internship
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar w/ Distinction
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in
parenthesis): JV Equestrian Team from 9th through 11th, V Equestrian Team in 12th, French Honor Society (Officer in 11th), Forensic Science Club (Officer in 11th and 12th), Founded a political discussion club with some friends this year
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Interned at a vet’s office for 11th and 12th grades
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:
[<em>] Summer Activities: Worked at my internship for pay during Summer 2013, ~40 hrs/wk
[</em>] Essays: I was quite proud of my essays. My cousin, who does this kind of thing fairly often, offered to edit them for me and gave them back with no changes. This was probably one of the strongest parts of my application.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I never saw them. However, my teachers like me so I’m assuming they were good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I’m guessing it was fine.
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview: It went well, even though I arrived a little bit late (oops!). The guy asked these very strange, liberal-artsy type questions but seemed very impressed by my answers and my activities.
[<em>] Supplementary Material(if any):
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): MD
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Competitive, nationally ranked public high school. ~600 people in my class
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian - Pakistani
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket(specify if applied for FA): Applied for FA. Income bracket $100k or so. It’s hard to specify because my parents are divorced and my dad makes a significant amount more than my mom does.
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Asian?
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths:: I’m very focused on my eventual goal (veterinary school) and I’ve shown it with my extracurricular activities throughout high school. Also, I have very high test scores and am a National Merit Finalist.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Low GPA
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/
waitlisted/rejected: See “strengths” above
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/
waitlisted/rejected: So far, the only other place I’ve been accepted at is Northeastern. Waitlisted at Bowdoin and WashU, rejected from Rice and Middlebury. Still waiting on Williams, McGill, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, and Cornell.
[/ul]General Comments: I was accepted out of the RD pool back in February as part of Grinnell’s new early admission program. I also received $21k in merit aid, and visited campus in early March.
As you can see above, my other college decisions haven’t turned out as well as I’d hoped they would. Ivy day is in less than a week, but I’m not holding out hope. I would tentatively say that I’ll be attending Grinnell come fall. :)</p>
