<p>So, ED applications are due tomorrow, and I figured why not start the discussion thread? For now, if you want to post your stats, skip the first lines and the reflection section (Those are for saying whether you got accepted, waitlisted, or rejected and why you think you got accepted or rejected, respectively). Erase the spaces in the beginning brackets to make it work (I stole this from last year's ED thread). Hopefully we'll all be accepted and meet each other next year at some point!</p>
<p>[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted*[/color][/size]
[ size=+2][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Waitlisted[/color][/size]
[ size=+2][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected*[/color][/size]</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:[ul]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II:
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[list]
[ ] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
[ *] Summer Activities:
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recommendation:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Additional Rec:
[ *] Interview:
[ /list][ b]Other*
[ ] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *]Income Bracket:
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[ b]Reflection*
[ ] Strengths:
[ *] Weaknesses:
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ b]General Comments:*</p>
<p>[/ul]Objective:[ul]
[li] SAT I (breakdown): 800M, 720CR, 650W (I don't know why it sucks so much).</p>[/li]
<p>[li] ACT: 33</p>[/li]
<p>[li] SAT II: None</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.91 or so</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Not sure of exact rank, but I'm 5.09%. One stinking person away from top 5%</p>[/li]
<p>[li] AP (place score in parenthesis): Music Theory (5 both sections), Calc AB (5), Lit (4), US History (4)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] IB (place score in parenthesis): None</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, Biology II Honors, Newspaper, AP Comp Sci, Gov/Econ Honors</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semifinalist, National Hispanic Scholar, and AP Scholar (With honors maybe? Whatever the one above the basic level is)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): A lot of church volunteering and leadership, keys in the band at church, classical piano (half a page of state awards and superiors in competitions), newspaper section editor, jazz piano, guitar lessons. I think that covers it</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Job/Work Experience: None, technically an intern at church one summer, but I didn't put anything about it.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Volunteer/Community service: Like I said, a lot of church volunteering, along with Operation Christmas child every year</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Summer Activities: Helped with our VBS (Around 1000 kids, I was in the band and helped with 4 year olds), went to Camp Electric (A christian music camp, but I didn't put that anywhere)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Essays: Common App essay was good, maybe very good, not excellent or anything (yes those are very subjective, haha)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Teacher Recommendation: My Newspaper teacher who I've had for 3 years now. On our newspaper outing I was in his giant two person inner tube, and I ate lunch with him, his wife, and other chaperones a couple times on DC trip, so he knows me really well.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Counselor Rec: She filled out her stuff before I even asked her to, so I assume very good. I've been around her office a lot.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Additional Rec: none</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Interview: None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other:[list]</p>
<p>[li] State (if domestic applicant): SC</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Country (if international applicant): NA</p>[/li]
<p>[li] School Type: One person went to UChicago last year, and that was probably the only top 50 school. It's the Math, Science, and Technology magnet, and we're pretty good, but we don't send grads to top colleges.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Ethnicity: Hispanic (My mom's 100% Brazilian, she was the first child in her family born in America).</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Gender: Male</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Income Bracket: Past 4 years my dad was unemployed, my mom's on disability and has a lot of medical expenses, and my dad just got a 60K job, so 60K's the short answer, but we've been in the hole for a while (Plus I believe they still owe most of their mortgage).</p>[/li]
<p>[*] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I'm a URM, and both my grandparents went to NU, so legacy.</p>
Just kidding, that’s pretty cool that you founded a SuperPAC and are president of the young liberals club. Most of the kids at my school will say Obama because he’s cool, or Romney because he’s republican, and have no idea what they actually stand for other than the basic republican/democrat stances. I really want to know about your supplement essay now, would you mind PM’ing me why you think it might cause an issue? I doubt that anything could possibly cause them to reject you unless it was “I hate NU. It sucks. I don’t ever want to go here. My parents are making me.” haha</p>