***Official Vanderbilt University 2016 RD Results***

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Decision: Accepted - College of Arts & Science
Decision: Accepted - Blair School of Music
Decision: Accepted - School of Engineering
Decision: Accepted - Peabody
Decision: Waitlisted - College of Arts & Science
Decision: Waitlisted - Blair School of Music
Decision: Waitlisted - School of Engineering
Decision: Waitlisted - Peabody
Decision: Rejected - College of Arts & Science
Decision: Rejected - Blair School of Music
Decision: Rejected - School of Engineering
Decision: Rejected - Peabody</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]</p>

<p>[li] SAT I (breakdown):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] ACT:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] SAT II:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] AP (place score in parenthesis):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] IB (place score in parenthesis):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Senior Year Course Load:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]</p>

<p>[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Job/Work Experience:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Volunteer/Community service:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Summer Activities:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Essays:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Teacher Recommendation:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Counselor Rec:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Additional Rec:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Interview:</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]</p>

<p>[li] State (if domestic applicant):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Country (if international applicant):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] School Type:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Ethnicity:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Gender:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Income Bracket:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]</p>

<p>[li] Strengths:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Weaknesses:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General Comments:[/noparse]

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:

  • [<em>] SAT I: Reading (780), Math (780), Writing (680) = 2240.
    [</em>] ACT: <not submitted="">
    [<em>] SAT II: Math II (800), Chemistry (790), U.S. History (750).
    [</em>] Unweighted GPA: 4.28/4.0.
    [<em>] Rank: <na>
    [</na></em>] AP: U.S. History (5), Chemistry (5), Calculus AB (5), Statistics (5), English Language and Composition (5).
    [<em>] IB: <na>
    [</na></em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C Mechanics, AP Government and Politics, AP Biology, AP English Literature and Composition, AP Calculus BC, Spanish IV, Teacher Assistant.
    [<em>] Major Awards: Third Place WV State Math Field Day.

Subjective:

  • [</em>] Extracurriculars: Student Government (Senior Class Secretary), Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor Society (President), National Honor Society (Vice President), Math Honorary Club, Science Bowl, Cross Country (3 Varsity letters), Track and Field (1 Varsity letter), MHS Frisbee Club (Founder and President), Community League Basketball (Captain), Community League Frisbee (Captain).
    [<em>] Job/Work Experience: <na>
    [</na></em>] Volunteer/Community service: Middle school tutoring, helping in a nursing home.
    [<em>] Summer Activities: Governor’s Honors Academy for 3 weeks in 2011, a smattering of one-week camps.
    [</em>] Essays: I took the essays very seriously.
    [<em>] Teacher Recommendations: ???
    [</em>] Counselor Rec: ???
    [<em>] Additional Rec: <na>
    [</na></em>] Interview: No.

Other

  • [<em>] State (if domestic applicant): West Virginia.
    [</em>] School Type: Public.
    [<em>] Ethnicity: White.
    [</em>] Gender: Male.
    [<em>] Income Bracket: $120 - 140k.
    [</em>] Hooks: Class Secretary, underrepresented region.

Reflection

  • [<em>] Strengths: Application essays, high AP scores.
    [</em>] Weaknesses: Music, foreign languages.
    [<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Good stats.
    [</em>] Where were you accepted: Brown, Olin, Tufts, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, UVA (Honors), Virginia Tech (Honors), WVU.
    [<em>] Where were you waitlisted: Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Duke, Lehigh.
    [</em>] Where were you rejected: Yale, Cornell, Penn.

General Comments:

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[<em>] I am pleased to be going to Brown University in the Fall of 2012.
[</em>] There seems to be quite a bit of randomness in the evaluation process at schools where the acceptance rates are very low.<br>
[li] I took all of the application essays very seriously because my lowest SAT score was in writing. Brown’s app was the one with the most essays which might be why Brown was the only Ivy (out of the seven that I applied to) that accepted me.[/li][/ul]</not></p>