<p>Hi everyone! Sorry I’m late. I’m new around here but I was accepted on 3/27.</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):
ACT: 32 (36 on English!)
SAT II:
GPA (out of 4.0): 4.8 (AP/honors gets ranked on a 5.0 scale)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Not sure, but top 5%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Lang (5), Lit (waiting on score), Calc (waiting also)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Calc, AP Gov’t (not really a legit class though), Honors Psych, Honors Microbiology/Phisiology, Honors French 4, Ceramics II, Intro Graphic Arts
Major Awards: Overall Department Achievement- French, Prairie State Achievement Award, IL State Scholar, $20,000 Scholarship, President’s Education Award</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Band (2 years), Choir (3 years), Dance (16 years, 12 hours a week), Pre-professional dance company
Job/Work Experience: My mom is self-employed so I’ve helped her out in the retail and online business and I worked at Tastee-Freez, which is kind of like Dairy Queen
Volunteer/Community service: NHS-related stuff, dance volunteering, working with Girl Scouts
Summer Activities: Dance, college visits, dance…lol.
Essays: I think mine were pretty creative…haha.
Teacher Recommendation: Well, my English teacher loved me. I did well in his class and was one of very few people to ever score a 5 on the AP exam from my school, so…I expect it was pretty good. Plus I made him brownies. =P
Counselor Rec: I know for sure that my counselor’s recommendation was FANTASTIC. I didn’t read it, but I have no doubts. She loves me like one of her own children.
Interview: I didn’t have one.</p>
<p>Other:
State (if domestic applicant): IL
Country (if international applicant): US
School Type: Public, pretty low-end (very few APs, most students go to local 2-year community college or nowhere)
Ethnicity: White
Gender: I am quite obviously male…LOL. Of course I’m female.
Income Bracket: Under 20K
Hooks: I’m from a very low-income family, I’ve been through divorce and custody battles and even being homeless (more than once), but I’ve still maintained my great grades and all of my extra-curriculars.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: NYU, Union, College of Wooster, Wittenberg (AKA all backups), Waitlisted: Brown, Pitzer, Princeton, Stanford, Vassar, Rejected: Columbia</p>