<p><strong><em>Official Class of 2015 RD Results</em></strong>
Hey everyone, post your stats to help next years applicants and to feed our own curiosity!</p>
<p>Reminder: This is a results thread. Post only results, no discussion before results are posted, please!</p>
<p>Here's a template that can be used, although it does not have all the parts in your template:</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2340: 800 CR, 760 M, 780 W
[</em>] ACT: 34 composite
[<em>] SAT II: High 700s in Math II and Lit
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8 something
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 25%.
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 4s and 5s on Euro, Calc AB, LA, USH
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Latin, AP LA, AP Gov, AP Calc BC, H Physics (actually a college-level class)
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMF, NLE Gold x3</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Play in elite jazz band, founded some clubs, chess team, etc.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: I run a jazz trio.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: I helped Indonesian orphans.
[</em>] Summer Activities: See above.
[<em>] Essays: Really good.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: They said they were amazing.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Really good; he helped me organize the Indonesia thing.
[</em>] Additional Rec: My guitar teacher wrote one for my music supplement; it was great.</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yeah.
[</em>] Intended Major: Undecided. Or maybe Physics or Classics. I’m not sure.
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): WA.
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Big, good public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Not sure.
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Test scores, ECs, community service, essays, recs
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA, rank
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Who knows?[/li][/ul]General Comments: Congratulations to the accepted! To the others, good luck. You’ll end up somewhere great, wherever that happens to be.</p>
<p>objective:[ul]
[<em>] sat i (breakdown): 1570/2260 (800R/770M/690W)
[</em>] act: N/A
[<em>] sat ii (if submitted): US History+Math IC=760
[</em>] unweighted gpa (out of 4.0): 3.57
[<em>] rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[</em>] ap (place score in parenthesis): Euro, US, Psych, Gov, Chinese, Human Geo = 5
[<em>] ib (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] senior year course load: AP Physics B, AP Econ (both), AP Lit, IB Anthropology, Honors Astronomy, Honors Art History
[li] major awards (usamo, intel etc.): Australian International Music Festival[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>subjective:[ul]
[<em>] extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Piano (12 years) Flute/Piccolo (6 years) Calligraphy, Socratic Club (11-12), Quiz Team (officer) (9-12), Symphony Orchestra (Principal First Flute) (8-12)
[</em>] job/work experience: Moderator for online forum (volunteer) (9-12)
[<em>] volunteer/community service:
[</em>] essays: Common App create your own prompt - depends. I took a risk and went quite in depth in to philosophy, so the adcom would have to decide. I love it though. Thinking back I should have used this one for every common app, since my other common app essay is more appropriate for Mac’s international student question.</p>
<p>Why Macalester: 9/10 A pretty generic “why this small prestigious LAC” essay. I said the same things about a number of schools but hey, that’s why I applied to all of them together! I must have similar reasons!</p>
<p>International supplement: Eh. 8/10. Talked about being a third culture kid and my difficulties adjusting to a single cultural environment.
[<em>] teacher recommendation: AP Lit 10/10 - Awesome AP Euro ?/10 I’m expecting it to be pretty good
[</em>] counselor rec: 10/10
[<em>] additional rec:
[</em>] interview: Nope[/ul]</p>
<p>other[ul]
[<em>] applied for financial aid?: Negative
[</em>] intended major: Philosophy/Classics/Astronomy. Two of those.
[<em>] state (if domestic applicant):
[</em>] country (if international applicant): Hong Kong, China
[<em>] school type: Private competitive international
[</em>] ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] gender: F
[</em>] income bracket: >$200k
[li] hooks (urm, first generation college, research, etc.): Negative[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>reflection[ul]
[<em>] strengths: Essays, definitely. My GPA was not in the ballpark, not even at my own school where the accepted GPA was 3.7. Test scores. Recs- I can’t thank my teachers and counselor enough.
[</em>] weaknesses: Well, GPA, some risky essays.
[li] why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think more than many other schools I applied to, this is one I really dared to delve into the depths of my interests and abandoned the fear that adcoms would think I was showing off.[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>**general comments: **Since brevity is the soul of wit: YAY.</p>