<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2190: 800M 750 CR 640 W
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: N/a
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 4.33 (my school weighs AP 1.0, doesn’t weigh Honors courses)
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/245
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5’s on Bio, Lit, Comp, Calc AB, Phys; 2 on APUSH
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: 3 AP’s (2 online; I’ve pretty much taken all of the AP’s at my school besides World History and Art), Spanish 3, Choir, Debate, Mythology/SciFi (I’d already taken the most advanced English courses offered and alternatives were too expensive), Basic Law
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NM Finalist
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Ecology Club (President), Debate (LD Captain), Choir (EM Choir President), Interact Club (Community Chairperson), Youth Advisory Committee (Co-Chairperson), Boy Scouts (Eagle Scout, Patrol Leader), Order of the Arrow (Lodge Secretary)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Mainly through EC’s
[</em>] Summer Activities: Nothing exciting
[<em>] Essays (subjects and personal opinions):[list]
[li] Common App Main Essay: About my family, 9/10[/li][</em>] EC Short Answer: About this random experience on a choir trip, 6/10
[<em>] Why Yale?: Pretty cookie cutter answer (didn’t realize that at the time)
[</em>] Short Takes: Pretty unique. I thought they were great.
[<em>] Additional Essay:[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation 1: Didn’t read, but a later rec from him was amazing[/li][</em>] Teacher Recommendation 2: Didn’t read
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Didn’t read
[</em>] Additional Rec: None
[<em>] Interview: Awful. It was over the phone. He told me a bit about Yale, then I asked him questions for 20 minutes, then he said something like “Well, before we go, what do you want to tell me that the Admissions Office might want to know?” I stumbled for a bit (I felt like all of my answers were already in my app), then emailed him answer afterward (he told me to do so). After my Pomona interview, the lady said something along the lines of “I think you’re an intelligent, hard-working, compassionate young man who’ll be a great fit at Pomona and I’ll tell the Admissions Office that.” After my Yale interview, we were both left wishing something more had been said.
[/list]Other[ul]
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): ID
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Middle Class
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Stats, EC’s, One of my Rec’s
[<em>] Weaknesses: Interview, Supplemental Essay, Did I mention that interview yet?
[</em>] Why you think you were rejected: See weaknesses.
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at Idaho State University, Case Western, Knox, College of Idaho, Pomona. Almost certainly going to Pomona.[/li][/ul]General Comments: I was actually a lot happier after getting rejected. I was already leaning toward Pomona if I did get into Yale, and this made it so that I won’t ever really have to look back and wonder what might’ve been. Super-psyched about Pomona.</p>