White male from Canada, applied from Fin aid
GPA: Like 95/100 cumulative with significant upward trend (School offers no AP, IB, honors, etc.). Also highest average in my school of about 260.
Tests: 36 ACT w/ 12 essay. 800 chem, 800 physics, 800 math 2
Main EC’s: Organized a blood drive at my school which collected 63 units of blood (sent in news article about this),
built a telescope (common app essay is about this),
1st place in mcmaster physics contest, also several math contests I got a distinction (though this isn’t too significant)
self taught programmer and built one app that I included in additional info,
Ran a tutorial youtube channel that taught 100,000’s of viewers how to edit.
Part of student council,
founded a math contest club at my school.
Lots of other small things in the school that don’t stand out specifically.
Essays: Common app essay I’ve been told is really good. For each supplemental I feel like I made them pretty personal and I spent a tonne of time perfecting them. Obviously this is the part that’s hard to judge objectively yet makes a big difference.
Teachers all wrote really venerating letters.
No interview for Stanford. Princeton interview could not have possibly gone better, we really connected and she told me I’d be a good fit.
I’ve been rejected from Caltech and MIT so far.