<p>ub3rmike</p>
<p>I just want to say that I am absolutely thrilled you will be attending Princeton and that you will bring a welcome life experience and perspective to the campus.</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2320 superscored from 2 sittings - 800 CR, 720 M, 800 W
[</em>] ACT: did not submit
[<em>] SAT II: 780 Literature, 770 Spanish, 770 Math 2, 770 Latin, 730 USH, 680 Math 1
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96, 4.86 weighted
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9/131
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Art History (5), Calculus AB (5), English Lang (5), Spanish Lang (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): enrolled in full diploma program with scores pending - Psychology SL, Math HL, Spanish HL, English HL, History SL, Chemistry SL
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB courses above plus IB Theory of Knowledge/Research
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, National Latin Exam Gold Medal, National Spanish Exam Silver Medal</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Debate (Captain, many awards), Sailing Team (Skipper), Dance Marathon charity event (Executive Board), Key Club, Model UN
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Junior Docent at art museum
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Key Club, Dance Marathon, Girl Scouts
[</em>] Summer Activities: Counselor in Training at sailing camp, Duke TIP, debate camp
[<em>] Essays: Very good, wrote common app essays about my two main extracurriculars, sailing and debate.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: I haven’t read them but one of them told me I’m one of the best students she’s ever had.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I don’t know her that well but it’s probably positive.
[</em>] Additional Rec: Debate coach, probably very good
[li] Interview: Solid, with a local alum</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other:[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: International Relations
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Florida
[</em>] School Type: IB magnet within large public school
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: upper middle
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Essays, scores
[</em>] Weaknesses: no hooks, extracurriculars don’t stand out
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: It’s incredibly competitive.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted - UPenn, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, George Washington, William and Mary, American
Waitlisted - Columbia
Deferred - Georgetown (waiting for RD)
Rejected - Harvard, Yale, Yale-NUS</p>
<p>[/ul]**General Comments: **
I don’t care, I’m probably going to be a Quaker! YAY!</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2140 (670 M, 670 CR, 800 W 10 essay)
ACT:
SAT II: 800 Math 2, 780 US, 720 Math 1
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 94 (3.8)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): Lang 4, US 4
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: Calc II, Lit, AP Macroeconomics, Bio, Gov
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Soccer Captain, Club soccer captain, NHS President, MUN (Best delegate once, honorable mention twice), Amnesty Int’l., Debate, Outside Program (5-year commitment), Movie Club, and others
Job/Work Experience: Soccer Ref
Volunteer/Community service: About 100 hrs (NYT article written about me)
Summer Activities: Abroad homestay, Travel Soccer, Outside program
Essays: CA - Superb.
Teacher Recommendation: Both were “best in career”
Counselor Rec: She loves me and my family
Additional Rec:
Interview: Good
Other
State (if domestic applicant): NY(C)
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Small Public
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: M
Income Bracket: $100,000 (bad…)
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM
Reflection
Strengths: Essays, Personality
Weaknesses: Horrid midyear grades.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Underqualified.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Duke (Likely), Vanderbilt (early-write), Macalester (early-write), WUSTL, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon, Syracuse, a lot of SUNYs and CUNYs. Waitlisted: UChicago, Penn (Wharton) Rejected: Harvard, Princeton, Cornell
General Comments: No surprise here.</p>
<p>Pick one:
Decision: Deferred —> Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2320, 760/760/800/12
[</em>] SAT II (subject, score): Math II (800), Chemistry (800), World History (760)
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.97ish (not 100% sure)
[</em>] Weighted GPA: 4.67
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1st Decile
[</em>] AP (place score in parentheses): 5s on World History, Calculus AB and BC, APUSH, English Language, Chemistry, Biology, Spanish Lang, Macro and Micro (self-studied the last two after taking community college classes)
[<em>] IB (place score in parentheses): None
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Euro, AP Physics C: Mech, AP Stats, AP English Lit, AP Computer Science, Religion/Art courses
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): None, I think
[</em>] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): National AP Scholar, National Merit Commended (didn’t find out until after I submitted my app, however)[/ul] </p>
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
–Founder/President, School FBLA Chapter (10-12)
–School Newspaper (Writer 9-10, A&E Editor 11-12)
–Varsity Badminton (9-12)
–Girl Scouts (1-12, Bronze Award, Working on Gold) (Going to miss selling cookies!)
–City Advisory Committee Member (11-12)
–Mock Trial Prosecution Attorney (12)
–School Religious Team (not my religion, but nevertheless fun) (12)
–Classical Vocalist (1-12)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:
–Summer Finance/Legal Internship (Summer after 10)
–Youth Basketball Referee (11-12)
[<em>] Volunteer/Community Service:
–Youth Basketball Coach (9-10)
–Habitat for Humanity weeklong school trip
[</em>] Summer Activities:
–Internship
–9, 11: Classes at Community College (wrote about these)
[<em>] Essays (1-10 rating, details):[list]
[li] Common App Essay: “Bookonomics” (My own topic)[/li][</em>] Supplement Essay: “Princesses of Silicon Valley” (The one about culture)
[<em>] Additional Essay/Engineering Essay: “Modes of Transportation” (Summer Activities)[/ul]
[li] Recommendations (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul][/li][li] Teacher Recommendation #1: Read it after the fact, consistently praising[/li][</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: Didn’t read; I’m guessing it was good!
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Read a little, it was good. She was really nice and helped me a lot.
[</em>] Additional Info/Rec: None [/ul]
[<em>] Interview: Not the best. It was the first college interview I had, so I was nervous
[</em>] Art Supplement: None [/list]</p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: mid-October (applied early)
[</em>] U.S. State/Territory or Country: CA
[<em>] School Type: Private Catholic
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: F
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): None, I think [/ul] </p>
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Focus on my major – economics – in my essays, interview, and activities
[</em>] Weaknesses: Extracurriculars were a bit of a laundry list; not sure anything really stands out
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: God’s grace!
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
–Accepted: Stanford, UChicago, Cornell, Claremont McKenna, Santa Clara, UCs. --Rejected: Yale
[/ul]</p>
<p>General Comments & Advice: “We make plans, and God laughs in our faces”</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2210 (didn’t send)
[</em>] ACT: 35 (34,36,33,35 W8)
[<em>] SAT II:800 Math II 790 Chem
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.13/4.3
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):unofficially top 3 of 300, should be 1
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5s on Stats (self-study), Chem (self-Study), Psychology, Biology, Calc BC, Computer Science, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, 4 on US Hisotry
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Multivariable Calc, Organic Chemistry, Linear Algebra at University, AP Lit
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMF, National AP Scholar, Top 1% of WI math contest, State Science Olympiad Medals [/ul]
Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): High School Science Olympiad (President and Founder), Middle School Science Olympiad Coach (Outstanding coach for 2nd at State) Math Team (Co-Captain), Soccer, Table Tennis Club, some other small stuff
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: 400 hours internship at a lab
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 200 at hospital
[<em>] Summer Activities: Internship
[</em>] Essays (rating 1-10, details):8, about seeking my true potential
[<em>] Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
[</em>] Teacher Rec #1: 7, good but could be better
[<em>] Teacher Rec #2: 7, good but a bit of a list
[</em>] Counselor Rec: 8, new counselor so doesn’t know me as well
[<em>] Additional Rec: From the lab I interned at, short but good
[</em>] Interview: 1 hour interview, went well [/ul]</p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):WI
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):USA
[<em>] School Type:Suburban (rarely sends students to Ivy League)
[</em>] Ethnicity:Asian
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: 120k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Independent, Push myself
[</em>] Weaknesses: Essays?, no hooks
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: not sure
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted UW-Madison,
Waitlisted Rice
Rejected Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown PLME, Northwestern HPME[/ul]
General Comments: I am not sure what to say. My school isn’t that great but I hoped that I could still shine through my own efforts. I guess I will graduate in 3 years and go to medical school. Still a bit mad but I hope medical school acceptances will be better.</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2260 (710R, 750W)
[</em>] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): same as above
[<em>] SAT II (subject, score): French, Math 2: 790
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.99
[<em>] Weighted GPA: /
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): doesn’t rank probably top 10/510
[<em>] AP (place score in parentheses): can’t take AP til senior year but can fast track, took french and micro, both 5
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Pre ap calc BC, AP calc BC, AP physics C, AP Chemistry, AP HG, AP Stats
[<em>] Number of other EA applicants in your school: none
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): top 10 at DECA ICDC, some provincial cross country honors …
[li] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.):[/ul] just honor roll I guess</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): community service club founder/prez, deca vp, french club prez, all started in gr9
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[<em>] Volunteer/Community Service: 1000 hours at various charities
[</em>] Summer Activites: prestigious summer camp, music history, volunteering
[<em>] Essays (1-10 rating, details):[list]
[li] Common App Essay: 9 talked about experience @ summer camp and how it influenced me[/li][</em>] Supplement Essay: 9 talked about my grandfather’s influence on me
[<em>] Additional Essay/Engineering Essay:[/ul] nada
[</em>] Recommendations (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation #1: from DECA advisor and business teacher “one of the best in career” 9/10
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: from a 70 year old French teacher who claims that I write better than her 9/10
[<em>] Counselor Rec: generic, a list of accomplishments/ECs … bland and impersonal
[</em>] Additional Info/Rec:[/ul] nada
[<em>] Interview: very good she liked my activities and my interests
[</em>] Art Supplement:[/list] none</p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: the day before duedate
[</em>] U.S. State/Territory or Country: NJ
[<em>] School Type: suburban (~15 kids apply to ivies but very few actually make it in)
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket Range: low
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development):[/ul] first generation</p>[/li]
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: essays, recs, interview
[</em>] Weaknesses: low SAT I for ethnicity/Princeton, no standouts
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: no clue should’ve been rejected with my terrible SATs
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/ul]
Accepted: Williams, Amherst and a bunch of safeties
Waitlisted: HYPS
Rejected: Penn (Wharton) (deferred ED), Dartmouth</p>
<p>This was the only school I got deferred/rejected from back when I was applying in 2005. </p>
<p>To those that didn’t make the cut, please let me offer you some solace: No matter where you end up – if you keep up your ambitions, you’ll do great. If I had read these words in 2005 I probably would have said “Lol, what feel-good nonsense,” but it really is true and I think most of my peers would agree. There aren’t enough spots for qualified applicants, so there is going to be an element of luck involved. </p>
<p>I’ve been out of college for a couple years now, and here in the city, I’m surrounded by people who all came from a great variety of schools. Many people wind up in the same place in the end, and so if you happen to be taking a different/unexpected route to that destination, just enjoy it for what it’s worth! Where you went to school is almost an afterthought at this point in life. </p>
<p>Congratulations to all of you!</p>
<p>Pick one:
Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): M 800, CR 750, W 780, Essay 10
[</em>] SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 1 sitting 2330
[<em>] ACT (breakdown):
[</em>] ACT superscore (breakdown): 35 (1 sitting)
[<em>] SAT II (subject, score): Bio Ecology 760, Chemistry 800, US History 770
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 100): 96.88
[<em>] Weighted GPA: School doesn’t report weighted GPA
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/126
[<em>] AP (place score in parentheses): 5 Chemistry, 5 US History, 4 English Lang
[</em>] IB (place score in parentheses):
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Spanish Language, AP Euro, AP English Lit, Cambridge Pre-U IRR, Honors Gov/Econ, AP Calc BC, AP Biology
[</em>] Number of other applicants in your school: 1
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): none
[</em>] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.):AP scholar, 4-year scholar athlete[/ul] </p>
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
Varsity Cross Country (4 years), Mock Trial (2 years), violin (4 years, orchestra secretary, NY All-State, Area All-State), Community Youth Orchestra (4 years, President), Science Olympiad (4 years, VP, 4 state medals), NHS (2 years, VP)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Kumon (3 years)
[<em>] Volunteer/Community Service: NHS, volunteers at local Chinese school, church
[</em>] Summer Activities: Church volunteer work, paid work
[<em>] Essays (1-10 rating, details):[list]
[li] Common App Essay: okay, 8/10, about me getting over my fear of diving [/li][</em>] Supplement Essay: Actually kind of crappy… Summer activities essay was awful and vague and was clearly filling up word count, other essay was pretty good about my experience coming out
[<em>] Additional Essay/Engineering Essay: none[/ul]
[li] Recommendations (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul][/li][li] Teacher Recommendation #1:Spanish teacher was very good[/li][</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2:math teacher didn’t read but I’m sure was also very good
[<em>] Counselor Rec:guidance counselor was also very good
[</em>] Additional Info/Rec:[/ul]
[<em>] Interview: I think the only reason that got me in… Gave an AMAZING interview, interviewer loved me and we discussed politics and education and other random tidbits for a solid few hours
[</em>] Art Supplement: lol what is art [/list]</p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: October-ish
[</em>] U.S. State/Territory or Country: New York
[<em>] School Type: Small, semi-competitive public school
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket Range: <100k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): played the gay card? Does that count? [/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: interview, decent essays, great recommendations
[</em>] Weaknesses: that one summer essay, not too many outstanding awards/extracurriculars
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: great interview but mostly pure luck…
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to Harvard, Northeastern, Binghamton, Stony Brook, Georgetown, Duke
waitlisted at Cornell and George Washington
Rejected from UPenn, Yale, Northwestern, Columbia, Stanford[/ul]</p>
<p>**General Comments & Advice: To anyone applying next year or next few years, don’t be discouraged if you don’t get into your top school. It does not mean that you’re not a qualified candidate or anything. I was rejected to Columbia ED, cried for a good week, and now I’m here. **</p>
<p>Looking at these results, it seems clear to me that top colleges aren’t particularly concerned with grades or test scores once they reach a certain level. It seems that they just want interesting students (for example, an interesting 2150/rank 8/250 seems to be chosen over a boring 2360/rank 3/386).</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2120 (740 CR, 670 M, 710 W, 10 E)
[</em>] ACT (breakdown): 34 (35 E, 34 M, 34 R, 33 S)
[<em>] SAT II (subject, score): 800 USH, 800 World
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 4.325
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%
[<em>] AP (place score in parentheses): Euro (5) World (5) USH (5) English Lang (5) Stats (4)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: ap latin, ap lit, ap calc ab, ap us govt, ap envi sci, ap physics c
[<em>] Number of other EA applicants in your school: probably 0? lol
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): silver medal national latin exam
[li] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.):ap scholar w/ distinction, honor roll[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars: latin club (treasurer), NHS (VP), band (section leader)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community Service: summer fellow for Obama Campaign
[<em>] Summer Activites: see above, also foreign exchange student in Germany
[</em>] Essays (1-10 rating, details):[list]
[<em>] Common App Essay: good, but not as good as Stanford’s
[</em>] Supplement Essay: good, but not as good as Stanford’s[/ul]
[<em>] Recommendations (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: very very good (according to GC)[/li][</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: average
[li] Counselor Rec: dunno[/ul][/li][li] Interview: thought it went well, ~45 min[/list]</p>[/li]
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: last minute, as always (procrastinate!)
[</em>] U.S. State/Territory or Country: OH, USA
[<em>] School Type: small, highly ranked public
[</em>] Ethnicity: asian and white
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket Range: <50,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athlete, development): none[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: passionate and probably a niche candidate
[</em>] Weaknesses: nothing spectacular
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: no hooks
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:</p>
<p>Accepted: Stanford, Notre Dame, OSU, University of Cincinnati
Waitlisted: UChicago, Johns Hopkins, University of Michigan (lolwut)
Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Brown, Amherst, Northwestern[/ul]</p>
<p>General Comments & Advice:</p>
<p>Ehh, Princeton used to be my top choice, but I last minute did not apply SCEA b/c I was drawn more to Yale and Stanford. Got into Stanford, so how can I complain???</p>
<p>Congrats to all accepted!</p>
<p>A bit late, but its a resource for others!</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred-Waitlisted-Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2050 (680 M, 660 CR, 710 W, 12 E)
[</em>] ACT (breakdown): N/A
[<em>] SAT II (subject, score): 780 US, 760 Bio M, 710 Italian, 800 Spanish
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 4.15 (went up slightly by the end of Senior year)
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/22 (two new kids by the end of Senior year)
[<em>] AP (place score in parentheses):World History (4 - self), Art History (5 - self), European History (4), Biology (5), English Language and Composition (5-self), US History (5-self), Italian Language and Culture (5 - self). Senior: Spanish Lit, English Lit, Self-study for Comparative Government and Politics and Calculus AB
[</em>] IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP Spanish Lit, Physics, Economics, Sociology, Theology, Forensics, Philosophy (my school offers few APs)
[</em>] Number of other EA applicants in your school: 0
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): A few international debate awards
[</em>] Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.):[/ul] AP Scholar with Distinction, Spanish Literature Award (end of Senior year)</p>
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):Varsity Quiz Bowl (captain) , Operation Smile , NHS (president), peer tutoring, varsity squash
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:None
[<em>] Volunteer/Community Service:NHS/Operation Smile, local hospitals in summer, USAid
[</em>] Summer Activites: Volunteer, Italian and Spanish Literature teacher-aid at local university
[<em>] Essays (1-10 rating, details):[list]
[li] Common App Essay: 8 - synesthesia captured [/li][</em>] Supplement Essay: 9
[<em>] Additional Essay/Engineering Essay:[/ul] N/A
[</em>] Recommendations (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ul]
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation #1: 10, awesome writer, she knew everything about me
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: 8, great teacher, had him since freshman year all the way to senior year
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Awesome
[</em>] Additional Info/Rec:[/ul] Beautiful deferred and wait list updates, written by me
[<em>] Interview: Nice and long
[</em>] Art Supplement:[/list] N/A</p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: October 2012
[</em>] U.S. State/Territory or Country: International
[<em>] School Type: Private religious
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket Range: No need for F.A.
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development):[/ul] N/A</p>[/li]
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: transcript, autodidact with AP and Italian language, summers, SAT IIs, recommendations, essays, Princeton supplement
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT (Oh lord)
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: It took them a while to recognize my ability… I mean I was deferred THEN waitlisted THEN accepted. No, just kidding. I guess that I was able to convey my love for learning and need to break free of my barriers
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/ul] Denied-Harvard and Yale, Accepted - University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, Notre Dame, UNC Chapel Hill, UVA, Boston College, University of Miami Waitlist - Duke </p>
<p>General Comments & Advice: Literally, its like a dream come true. I really had no idea it would be possible. I am eager to take advantage of all Princeton offers 
For future applicants: don’t be discouraged by being deferred or waitlisted (or both, like me). Make your application shine with your unique story. PRINCETON '17!!!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Arts & Sciences</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):2230 (750M, 730R, 760W)
ACT:
SAT II:Math II 770 Korean 790
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.69
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis):US 4 Latin 5
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load:AP BC Calc, AP Physics, AP Chem, english, Latin, AP Spanish
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):started program to teach mentally handicapped children, tutoring club president, started club that sends christmas presents to orphans in costa rica, varsity softball, babysitting
Job/Work Experience:babysitting, internship in a clinical trial
Volunteer/Community service:tutoring and trips to south america
Summer Activities:trips to south america, clinical trial internship
Essays:good
Teacher Recommendation:good
Counselor Rec:good
Additional Rec:
Interview:nothing spectacular
Other
Intended Major(s):biology
State (if domestic applicant): philly!!
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: private, extremely competitive
Ethnicity:Asian (korean)
Gender:Female
Income bracket (if applicable):<200,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):unique interests
Reflection
Strengths:standardized testing
Weaknesses:nothing major.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:i deserved it
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
accepted: penn, yale (early), dartmouth (likely), brown, michigan, PRINCETON!!
waitlist:harvard
reject:columbia</p>
<p>General Comments:looking back on this process, I didn’t really need to worry about it as much as I did. I honestly knew i would get in somewhere, and I was right! don’t sweat it, everyone ends up where they deserve to be! I AM GOING TO BROWNNNNNN! pce.</p>