<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2250 (730 CR, 720M, 800W, 11E)
[</em>] ACT: Did not report.
[<em>] SAT II: 760 (Literature), 790 (Math 2)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/79
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): 43 (predicted as of midyear report).
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Higher Level - Math, Physics, History; Standard Level - Chemistry, English A1, Spanish A2; TOK; National Studies.
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Global & National Awards for IGCSEs; Regional award for MOAS; National awards for debate, knowledge bowl, and academics. </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Amnesty International national club (Founder + Pres), National Youth Orchestra member, MUN/MOAS (a million random things…team member, club co-founder, MOAS coach, conference organizer, head delegate at CIMUN, etc), and lots of music, activism, debate, and social work elsewhere.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Interned with lead strategist during El Salvador’s latest Presidential Campaign (we lost haha)
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: A lot of work with Amnesty International (fundraising, distributing goods/foods, petitioning, etc) and the International Award for Young People (mostly working to improve the infrastructure at a local public school). I also taught three students from that school to read.
[</em>] Summer Activities: Internship between freshman and sophomore year, Pre-IB course at Oxford in 2009, Harvard Secondary School Program in 2010.
[<em>] Essays: I think my Common App essay is the best thing I’ve ever written (whatever that’s worth). It was adapted from UChicago’s “Find x” prompt, and discussed how I see music and political science/econ as being about the same thing.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: My physics teacher from last year. Pretty good, imo 9/10.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: More difficult to evaluate, but I was at an advantage because he is also my History teacher and has known me for at least half of my life.
[</em>] Additional Rec: From my math teacher. She’s quite a character, and it could’ve gone either way. I also sent a Rec in from my Macro prof. from Harvard.
[li] Interview: My first interview at Harvard was awful. I was then contacted for a second, late interview at my hometown, and it was probably one of the coolest experiences of my entire college search/app process. </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): Intl student from Latin America.
[<em>] School Type: Small private school w/British curriculum.
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic.
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket:
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nothing really stands out. You be the judge.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Maybe some of the awards/activities? I think my essay was good.
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT scores are just in the range.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m really bad at evaluating my own work, so you be the judge.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at Princeton, Yale, Columbia (likely), Penn (Huntsman), Stanford, UChicago, Vanderbilt, BU (Trustee), NYU Abu Dhabi, Amherst. No waitlists/rejections. </p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments: I feel extremely lucky. Congrats and good luck to everyone.</p>