<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800R 690M 760W = 2250 (single sitting)
[</em>] ACT: n/a
[<em>] SAT II: horrible so didn’t send
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): n/a
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Sitting in May
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB Maths HL, IB History (Asia) HL, IB Economics HL, IB French A2 SL, IB English A1 SL, IB Chemistry SL
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): n/a</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul][ b]Subjective:**[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Rugby (12 years club, 4 years school, national team this year (not mentioned but will update) (Captain at school/ MVP at club etc.)
Club tennis (4 years)
Club golf (4 years)
Model @ several fashion shows (charity)
MUN,
Student council (worked with French G’ment) (3 years)
Varsity X-country (1 year)
JV Basketball (1 year)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None :S
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: approx. 250 hrs (through CAS as well)
[</em>] Summer Activities: Yale Summer Session (Economics 252 and English 212)
[li] Essays:[/li]Commonapp: “Odd”, “great”, “eccentric”. Interior monologue of an incident on a bus.
Extended Essay (Op. 5): About the morality of interviews at universities (probably why I didnt get one)
Q1: Pretty average/general, but well expressed
Q2: About Ulysses by James Joyce and my trials and tribulations with it</p>
<p>[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: (waived rights) Honest, presumably good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: (waived rights) Likely very good
[<em>] Additional Rec: English professor at Yale, didn’t see but probably quite good.
[</em>] Interview: n/a</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[</em>] Intended Major: Undecided (but either IR, Economics or History)
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CT (born and maintain a residence)
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): Hong Kong (lived for 16 years)
[<em>] School Type: Private, extremely small, competitive
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: High…
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Experiences living abroad?</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul][ b]Reflection**[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: SAT (save maths), essays, additional recommendation
[</em>] Weaknesses: Maths across the board (5 in IB HL Maths, 690), aspects of my transcript (GCSE’s were good though)
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Transcript (took a very very hard courseload even within the IB and paid for it, plus I was a bit lazy :P)
[</em>] What other schools have you been accepted to/plan on going?
In at: University College London (UCL), St. Andrews (UK)
Rejected at: Oxford (Jesus) (UK), LSE (UK), Pucking UFenn (ED)
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General Comments:
Better than a rejection I s’pose, but I have been lazy all my life and feel that had I truly applied myself things would probably have turned out differently :/. Is there any data/info available for this year’s waitlist?</p>