<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 760W, 730CR, 680M
[</em>] SAT II: 780 Math II, 710 Bio(M), 770 French
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): N/A
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): English A HL (7), French B SL (7), Math SL (7), Biology HL (7), Chemistry HL (7), Economics HL (6)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: See above
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Award for second Highest overall score across 8 IGCSEs in the country. </p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Literary Club (Chairperson), Student Council (deputy head girl, Communications Officer, prefect), Youth Support and Networking Group (Founder and President), Student Leadership and Business Fair (Chief Leadership Officer, Head of The Int’l Committee and Gulf Cooperation Council), Drama (Lead Role, Assistant Teacher at the local cultural center), Singing (Opened at the local World Music Festival), MUN, Debate (Captain)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Intern at Taylor Wessing (Law firm) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Law firm); Customer Sales Rep. at a bookstore chain.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Organizer of charity art show, organizer of UN children’s day event for special needs children, put together a group for volunteering to pack laborers’ care packages, old age home, festival of literature volunteer, All For Downs Syndrome support group volunteer, charity fundraiser and cycling challenge in Vietnam and Cambodia for local orphans, beach cleanup organizer.
[</em>] Summer Activities: Internships at law firms, writing (a LOT of writing!), volunteering (see above), traveling.
[<em>] Essays: Very honest. I started off with a paragraph about wanting to be a window cleaner at the age of 4. Supplement essay was about my passion for comedy.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Haven’t read them, but my counselor was pretty confident about them.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Again, haven’t seen it.
[</em>] Additional Rec: None.
[li] Interview: Very interesting! The interviewer and I hit it off pretty well, so I guess I got lucky! </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Economics and Math
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): UAE
[<em>] School Type: Private, IB
[</em>] Ethnicity: Middle Eastern
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: >$100000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: I’d like to think my essays were good. My IGCSE grades might have helped. I thought my extracurriculars were good, but I’ve seen some other CV’s that are stellar! My URM status helped.
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT I Math score was pretty bad; SAT Bio M wasn’t fantastic, but not terrible either; no major/mind-blowing awards or anything.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: They say that the college application process is a crapshoot, so I’m going with that! I wish I knew what got me in! </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General Comments: It’s truly wonderful, especially after reading some of the posts on here, knowing that I’ll have a chance to be a part of such a vibrant and intellectual community. For those rejected or deferred, I can only say that, from what I read on here, your credentials are nothing short of what a terrific university would want. I hope to cross paths with as many of you interesting people as I can at some point in my life!</p>
