<p>Decision:Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2390 (800 CR, 790 M, 800 W)
[</em>] ACT: none
[<em>] SAT II: Lit 750, World History 710, U.S. History 690
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.67
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): no rank or percentile at my school
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Stat, AP GovPol, Peer Group Leaders, AP Lang, Orchestra, French 6A, Anatomy&Physiology, PE/Health
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): school dance club (co-pres/choreographer), outside dance group (co-founder/choreographer), Knowledge Masters Team (president), Asian American Club (secretary), Cooking Club (Publicity then treasurer), Quidditch Club, school newspaper, school yearbook, tutor at school tutoring center.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Part time receptionist at local real estate office
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteering at local hospital, Project GAIA (diversity/anti bullying group), led community service group at school, mentor freshmen, teach elementary school kids music, volunteering at daycare for homeless/at-risk kids.
[</em>] Summer Activities: Volunteering, taking French classes, dancing with my dance group, working.
[<em>] Essays: I thought they were pretty average. I have essays that I wrote for other schools’ prompts that I liked a lot better, but my essays weren’t bad. They focused a lot on meliora and also on what I’d bring to UR as a dancer, musician, and writer.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: both teachers know me well and like me a lot, but i wasn’t exactly the most attentive or excited student in either class. so, average recs i guess?
[<em>] Counselor Rec: probably good, i know him better than most of his students, but nothing spectacular.
[</em>] Interview: amazinggg! completely bonded with my interviewer and had lots of fun talking, i learned a lot about the school and it made me look a lot closer at UR. pretty much the reason I applied EN, she was just awesome! </p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yup.
[</em>] Intended Major: English, probably with dance, history, or French as a minor.
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): New Jersey
[</em>] School Type: Public, relatively small (~1400), the area is a combo of affluent and poor but the school is quite well funded thanks to wealthy alumni
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian American
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: 120,000? but our actual savings/disposable income are much lower.
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: SAT, interview, ECs
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA, recs
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I thought I’d be rejected, tbh. My GPA isn’t very high at all, and I’m not the typical Rochester student that pursues math or science or neuro. But perhaps that worked in my favor? My admission letter also mentioned something about me adding to diversity/the student community and recommended I take classes at Eastman. That combined with the scholarship I was awarded for the arts leads me to think that it was also my heavy involvement in the arts that helped me. Whatever it was, I’m grateful![/li][/ul]General Comments:
Financial aid award was much much bigger than I thought I’d get! so if you’re a future applicant concerned about the $ side of things, apply anyway and see what you can get 
Also, I had NMF and AP Scholar with Honor, and some state French awards.</p>
Plus I am genuinely interested in URoch and I went to the Diversity program they had back in the fall/winter.[/li][/ul]General Comments: I was upset for a while because I wanted them to send me my acceptance already. It was blatantly obvious that I would be admitted but I had to wait so long. Poor me 
haha. But I love the school, its beautiful and if the money is right, perhaps I will end up there!</p>