[aB][asize=4][acolor=#008000]Decision: Accepted[/color][/size]**
WCAS!!!
Objective:
ACT (breakdown): 32
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.88 (4.37 W)
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP US History (5), AP Language (4), AP Psychology(5),
Senior Year Course Load: AP German, AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Chem, AP Calc AB, AP Art, STEM (AP research model), debate (honors).
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
INTEL ISEF quarterfinalist. State/regional Science Fair Awards Galore- not major though, an international public policy forum award, some state/national debate awards.
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Feminist club (founder/pres),
Debate team (4 years, some nat/state recognition. Board member and vice president),
National Art Honor Society (secretary 1 year),
National German Honor Society,
National Honor Society (Secretary),
Astrophysics research in collab with Los Alamos(undergrad/grad level work),
Astrophysics research (post grad level work)
Charity Club (exec board),
Philosophy club (Secretary), and
Summer internship with state representative- it was a paid one, so i was interviewed etc. and the only high school student chosen!
Job/Work Experience: the internship with the state rep?
Volunteer/Community service: the charity club? national honor society also is required to do volunteer hours.
Summer Activities: my research @ NU
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Common App- essay about identity politics (how being discriminated as a muslim & woman made me strong). kind of bland, probably 7/10
Why NU- 10/10. Wrote about how researching at NU familiarized me with the environment- wrote about metaphorically bumping into my future self on their campus, seeing myself on benches n stuff there. Was quirky, passionate, and detailed. Sort of like a “hey i basically already go here, so just let me actually go here”.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
English teacher- she loved me! and she wrote an NU specific letter and submitted it directly to them bc shes an alum so → 9/10
Counselor- 9/10
Science teacher- 7/10
NU Professor who I worked with- good because he teaches there, but he didnt know me too well. 6/10
Other
i emailed them a lot- probably too excessively and i think this hurt me in the end rather than helped. I also made two grammar errors in my application (it was in the additional info. portion and I was describing my science research - so i had copied and pasted from my old abstracts - and it got screwed up 
).
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: science in human culture is what i wrote.
State (if domestic applicant): Illinois
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: public
Ethnicity: pakistani-american
Gender: a woman
Income Bracket: lowzies
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
Reflection
Strengths: My why NU was ridiculously fire.
Weaknesses:
Not mentioning any accomplishments in my common app essay was probably a mistake, it was sort of just a self reflection of myself.
And I had a lot going on in my application that wasn’t explained – like ap art is a SUPER INTENSE class that requires lots of passion, but it wasn’t mentioned anywhere besides my course load. I think they might have not believed the fact that i did all those classes/leadership positions and got good grades. But I got in so :0
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
my stats were in their avg range- and my why NU and extra-currics were awesome.
General Comments:
TO FUTURE CLASSES ---- LITERALLY DON’T GO ON COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL IT WILL RUIN UR LIFE IF U R READING THIS STOP FREAKING OUT AND JUST LOG OUT!!! everything will work out the way it needs to.
:-*
