Decision: Accepted
SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t Submit
ACT (breakdown): 27
SAT II: Didn’t take
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.90
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/501
AP (place score in parenthesis): 3 APUSH, 3 AP Language Comp, 3 AP English Lit, 4 AP US Government
IB (place score in parenthesis): 6 IB Business and Management SL (Junior Year)
Senior Year Course Load: IB Diploma - IB Math Studies, IB English, IB French AB Initio, IB Biology, IB History of Americas, IB Theory of Knowledge (first semester), 2 Free period second semester.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): IB Biology Award of Excellence, Science National Honor Award, French National Honor Award, Presidential Superlative Award, AP Scholar Award, English National Honor Award
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Key Club (Vice President - 2 Years), French National Honors Society (Projects Committee Head), IB Student Union (Historian), Seventh-Day Adventist Youth Society (Director & President - 6 Years), Seacrest Seventh-Day Adventist Choir (Secretary & Event Coordinator), C12A Distributions LLC. local start up company (Vice President),
Job/Work Experience:
Babysitter (2011 June, July, August)
Volunteer/Community service:
Patrick Murphy Campaign (Non-Paid Intern), Seacrest Seventh-Day Adventist Church (Assistant Treasurer), Habitat For Humanity (Volunteer)
Summer Activities:
Internship at Patrick Murphy (June, July, August, September, November)
Essays: 10/10 - Wrote a seven stanza autobiographical poem about my perfect place, then did a literary analysis on it. I thought it was good, but my English teacher raved about it.
Teacher Recommendation: 10/10 - My dual enrollment Statistics professor and my IB History teacher, and my IB French teacher. It really looked good that I had a college professor write about me.
Counselor Rec: 10/10 - She loves me and I knew she’d write an amazing letter of rec.
Additional Rec: 10/10 - IB Business & Management Teacher and my Key Club Advisor
Interview: 9/10 - The lady who interviewed me said that I was qualified and that she hoped that I got in because I’d be an asset to the school.
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Business Administration (Entrepreneurship)
State (if domestic applicant): Florida
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: <25,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, First Generation American
Reflection
I’m super happy to have gotten in! It’s one of the top schools in the nation. I applied out for the “heck of it” because I really wasn’t sure I would get in. I applied to many schools with just hope and I’m REALLY surprised I was accepted into as many top schools as I did. Unfortunately, I don’t think I will be going to Notre Dame. I most likely will be attending Cornell - though I’m still stuck between Berkeley, Cornell and Northwestern. Good Luck to future applicants and Congratulations to those who have been accepted! It’s not all about the test scores!
Strengths:
Essays, Extracurriculars (but not amazing!), GPA, hooks.
Weaknesses: ACT scores, didn’t take or submit any SATs or SAT II.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I don’t know really. It was up in the air from the beginning. Shocked that I got in, but it shows that not everything is about test scores… they want to see that you’ve done something and have impacted your community.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:
Accepted: University of Florida, University of California- San Diego, Cornell University, Emory University, University of Notre Dame, Northwestern University, UNC, University of California - Berkeley, USC
Waiting on Acceptance notification: None
Rejected: University of Texas - Austin, UCLA, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Rice, NYU
Your “Big Red” factor - the most unique thing in your application: Not really sure. Maybe the essay!