ACCEPTED
School/Major: College of Arts and Sciences, majoring in Medicine, Health and Society on the Pre Med track
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): NA
ACT: 34- 36 science, 35 math, 34 English, 32 reading
SAT II: 800 math 2, 790 chemistry
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): school only does weighted so 4.76
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5%
AP (place score in parenthesis): didn’t report any even though I had 5 scores
IB (place score in parenthesis): NA
Senior Year Course Load: AP psych, H gov, Hecon, AP Lit, H band, AP physics, AP Calc BC
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Idk what’s “major” But anything relevant I put in the extra curricular section
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): freshman mentoring program (helped start it and was a leader for 2 years), NHS (VP- in charge of tutoring), Science Team (chemistry captain, won many competitions including placing at state for chemistry), Student Council (planned many events throughout the years don’t want to list all of them but I put them on my app), Band (marching band and concert band saxophone section leader, band treasurer), Interact Club (gold meme ear), Math team, played piano for 11 years, volleyball (captain on a few teams and won all academic awards), track and field, probably more that I’m forgetting right now
Job/Work Experience: individually tutor kids, Tutor at Kumon
Volunteer/Community service: relay for life (youth committee chai for 4 years), local food pantry, local hospital
Summer Activities: summer internship at a local hospital shadowing doctors in different departments. I was 1/10 students chosen out of hundreds of applicants
Essays: I’m not a great writer but the essay was very personal, I told a great personal story that was probably very different from others so it should have stood out
Teacher Recommendation: phenomenal from both AP bio and AP chef teachers
Counselor Rec: I’m sure it was great. He always says how I am the pride and joy of the school (not really true idk why he says that)
Additional Rec: from one of the vice principals and I read the rec and it was amazing. I bet the it being the vice principal also helped because that shows that I have made a big enough impact that administration can vouch for me
Interview: I’m very social, good speaker, definitely better in person than on paper but to be honest I don’t know how my the interview even affects the decision
Other
State (if domestic applicant): IL
Country (if international applicant):
Intended major(s): Medicine, Health and Society on the pre med track
School Type: suburban public
Ethnicity: Asian American (Indian)
Gender: F
Income Bracket: High (no financial aid)
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): nothing really, I’m pretty average. For those who think being Indian helped, it actually doesn’t because I had to compete against the other crazy smart Indian kids for one of the approx 10% of spots for Asians which isn’t easy
Reflection
Strengths: test scores, showed a lot of demonstrated interest (I know vandy says they don’t look at this but I built a personal relationship with the admissions counselor which I believed helped at least a little), recommendations, my common app was unique, leadership is so many different areas
Weaknesses: pretty average kid from an average school
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I think I truly was a good fit for vandy, they seem to like high test scores, I demonstrated how I made a huge difference at my high school and my community
Where else you have applied: Iowa (accepted), had to withdraw all these apps before I heard back from them- Purdue, Michigan, U of I, UW Madison, Northwestern, Wash U, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, USC, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara
General Comments: I didn’t think I would get in just because I didn’t do anything extraordinary, but I got into my dream school and I could not be happier! If you didn’t get in, you can say it was your race, or blame your test score or whatever but honestly, I promise you’ll end up where you are supposed to be. I know that’s easy for me to say but that’s what I told myself before I heard back from vandy and I still believe that. I’m over joyed to be able to go to Vandebilt and cannot believe they accepted me into such an incredible school.
If younger students are reading this, the best advice I can give to get into your dream school is enjoy yourself in high school. I loved doing everything I accomplished here and through that process I built a well rounded resume where even Vanderbilt couldn’t say no. I didn’t do things just to put it on my apps, I worked hard in high school but also got to make a difference which is what I’m most proud of. Be yourself on applications. Write an essay where no one else could put their name in and say it was theirs. Ask teachers who know you personally and can attest to your academic ability. If you do all of that I promise, it’ll all work out and you’ll do amazing where ever you end up! Anchor Down 
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Just do something that you are passionate about! It is never too late to do something doable yet amazing. God will take care of you.
eek - never studied and never took them again! None of my schools required them.