<p>Actually i am completely serious, whether or not you believe me. </p>
<p>By unique essays I mean these were my 3 essays:
growing up in poor household with a father who was in jail half my life due to his nonviolent protest actions
using my knowledge of medicine and my experiences volunteering to create a documentary about health care for the uninsured. This documentary also won first in the nation
dealing with my father’s death by creating an art exhibit that exhibited his 52 years of artwork which showed in a smaller museum to the public for 3 months during last summer </p>
<p>And yes, I have more extracurriculars including 4 years of being a volleyball captain, 2 of which were on the varsity squad, however i didn’t have the energy or feel the need to type them all out.</p>
<p>Gotta say Handala, that was pretty unmerited. By Laura’s first post alone, there is no reason to believe that she wasn’t being serious simply because she didn’t get a perfect SAT score. It seems when many of us read these stats all we look for is vindication of our preheld beliefs about how the system works…standardized scores if high stats…URM if low stats…national awards if otherwise, etc. Myself included. Whatever. In any case, Laura’s story is a great one - the antithesis to what would constitute a ■■■■■ post…test scores really mean, on the scope of things, far less than we take them to mean when judging a person’s merit. MIT, it seems, understands that, and I’m glad (personally I was deferred with a 2360, 35, and 800s, don’t expect to be accepted either in 3 days, and I’m alright with it - Laura deserves it more).</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 480 Reading (This is why…)/ 800 Math/ 550 Writing
[</em>]SAT II: 800 on Chem and Math 2
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 4.0/4.0
[<em>]Rank: do not know, definitely top 5%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC12: 121.5, AIME 9, USAMO last year:6[/ul] Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I know it was bad…
[</em>]Recs: I do not know. My teacher never told me anything about what they wrote.
[<em>]Supplementary Material: Fairly weak
[</em>]Summer Activities: Volunteered at community service center and involved in a local campaign
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):[/ul] Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: New York City
[<em>]High School Type: Public “specialized” high school (my school is very bad…)
[</em>]Ethnicity: Chinese
[<em>]Gender: Male[/ul] Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: NYC Math Team (captain once)
[<em>]Awards: Lot of math awards…
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: SAT 1…
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I got rejected by Caltech today. So I think I will get rejected by MIT tomorrow. Hopefully not…[/ul]</p>