<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2100 (750W, 700M, 650CR)
[</em>] ACT: 32 (32E, 36M, 31R, 28S)
[<em>] SAT II: 700 Bio-M, 700 Math 2 (used a weird pencil, got rescored, but never got results back)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 4.48
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/328
[<em>] AP (place score in parentheses): Biology-5, USH-4
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus, AP English Lit w/ Intro to Poetry, Honors Anatomy, Honors Physics, Honors French IV, Economics
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Tons of school ones, three from Rotary, one school district one[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Science Expo Director: organized and helped run a large-scale science fair for over 600 third graders. I got to be one of the people to head the event this year (3 year participant); CSF Co-President: I organized, planned, and ran a four day trip to Southern California to tour nine colleges -one of which was Pomona College (member for three years); ECO Club Aiding founder and Treasurer: Helped educate students and staff of high school, as well as the community, about their impact on the environment -initiated recycling program, etc, etc.; Track & Field Varsity Boys -ran mile and two mile, got my letter (2 years); Cross Country -Varsity, got my letter (1 year)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Peer tutor at high school, selected by teachers; available 1-3 times a week after school for all tutoring needs!
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Vice President and Secretary for Key Club - I have gotten over 300 hours with the club, and with independently working with the middle school, educating, counseling, and tutoring.
[</em>] Summer Activities: I attended the leadership camp for the Rotary Youth Leadership Award and I took two summer courses at a local college: Intro to Psych and American Government, getting an A+ in Psych and one of the 5 A’s given out in a class of 50 for AmGov![/ul]</p>
<p>Writing (Rate Quality on 1-10 Scale; 10 as Best):[ul]
[<em>] Essays (Include Subjects):[list]
[li] Common App Main: 8; A long story about the lesson I learned from an experience from when I was younger, and how it has contributed to the person I am today[/li][</em>] EC Short Answer: 7; Talked about the immense amount of leadership it took to run the Science Expo previously mentioned
[<em>] Supplement: 10!; It was a captivating essay talking about a classroom experience. I wrote it in a very different style, and everyone I let read it loved it!
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[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: From Science teacher I had for Honors Chem, AP Bio, Honors Physics, faculty advisor for CSF, and worked with on the Science Expo. It was very sincere, but had many mistakes.[/li][</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: From English teacher I had for 3 years for Honors 10th grade English to this year’s AP English. It was also very kind and nice.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Very nice woman, she liked me, and thought I was very smart.
[</em>] Additional Rec: From Anatomy teacher; was my best rec. She said I had raised the standard in her class for years to come, and related an anecdote from my community service -an instance at the local retirement home I have frequented.
[li] Interview: I missed the deadline, something I think very much contributed to my waitlisting… D:[/li][/list]</p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: December 27th!
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): Northern California
[<em>] School Type: Public; rarely sends grads to top schools; located in country backdrop
[</em>] Ethnicity: Did not state in application
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~$80,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): -[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: I have some interersting EC’s, and I think they were quite strong relative to my area and situation.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Low, low, low test scores.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I am very happy with a waitlisting, as much as it hurts. I thought I had a very weak chance, considering my test scores, as they are very much underneath Pomona’s average. In such, I am honored to have been waitlisted. Nevertheless, I’m ripping my hair out. I haven’t gotten into to a single private school I applied to. I was waitlisted at UofChicago as well, and rejected at Stanford. I don’t have high hopes at all for Brown U. I think I shot too high with my applications! 
[</em>] What would you have done differently?: Gotten an interview. Perhaps it was what made the difference when it came to accepting me to their college.[/ul]</p>
<p>**General Comments: **Bah. Pomona was pretty much my first choice behind Stanford. At least I still have a chance! I am going to pursue this waitlisting like hell, and hopefully it amounts to something! I have been accepted to UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, and UC Davis, but I’m not too keen on attending a UC…</p>
Also accepted into UCLA, UCB, UCSD, WashU, and Amherst College; rejected from Stanford (given).</p>