<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2230 (780 V 750 M 700 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 740 Math IIc, 700 Physics, 800 Spanish
[<em>]ACT: 33
[</em>]GPA: 3.75, a bit misleading because I had a bad frosh year when I moved here from another country, and basically a 4.0 from end of soph year on.
[<em>]Rank: School Doesn't
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
AP Music Theory 3
AP Physics B 5 (self-studied)
AP Gov 5
AP Spanish Lit 5
AP BC Calc
AP Physics C
AP Lit
AP Chem (self-study)
(my school has a limit of 3 APs per year, and you can't take any before junior year, so that's why I don't have too many)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I thought they were good, they were about random things like riding my bike and rubik's cubes and how physicists are like kids making snowballs :P
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Great I think, I didn't actually see them but when I got deferred from another school one of my teachers offered to call them up and brag about me and the other one told me they were wrong.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Good, I seem to amuse him for some reason.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Physics teacher rec, didn't see it but I'll bet it was great & very enthusiastic, I knew him well. Newspaper clipping of microcontroller company I helped found. Summary of the 11 tutorials I've taken (self-studies) in programming, Quantum Phys & Relativity and Spanish.
[<em>]Interview: It was all right. I knew my interviewer's brother pretty well so it was kind of awkward.
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): URM, have done research at HSHSP in a genetics lab, sent them my abstract.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: TX
[</em>]High School Type: Private
[<em>]Ethnicity:Hispanic
[</em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]*Other *[ul]
[ <em>]Extracurriculars:
Sci Oly (Captain)
Amnesty (Treasurer)
Web Page design both in and out of school, for non-profits and independent contracts
Started microcontroller company, do tech & web page design
Founding member of Shakespeare club, treasurer
Research at HSHSP over the summer (best program ever)
Debate--qualified for state tournament
[</em>]Awards:
Tech Student of the Year
Lots of Sci Oly medals at regional & state level
Language awards, multiple-time medalist for national french exam
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Haha oh well...heading off to MIT which was my first choice, I'd already made my decision before I saw the Princeton letter :P</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT I (breakdown): 800M/800CR/750W
* SAT II: 800Chem/800MIIC/790USH/790Lit
* Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.998
* Rank : School doesn't rank
* AP : 10 Exams (all 5's).
* Senior Year Course Load: 6 AP's
* Major Awards : Not really any I can think of
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Fencing (co capt.), Science Club (VP), NHS, Academic Superbowl (Science capt.), Top School Band (Section Leader), All-State Honor Band(Section Leader)
* Job/Work Experience: Intern in college physics lab, bunch of private tutoring
* Volunteer/Community service:Volunteer at St. Vincent's New Hope and Clarian North
* Summer Activities: Summer school, fencing camp, working in lab, NYLF summer camp
* Essays: One was about a hobo, a robot, and a guy in a pink tuxedo. One was about my saxophone. Both were pretty weird, which might have made me stand out?
* Teacher Recommendation: 1 Amazing, 1 meh..
* Counselor Rec: Awesome
* Additional Rec: None
* Interview: Awesome
</code></pre>
<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>* State (if domestic applicant): IN
* School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: M
* Income Bracket: ~100K (38K Pton grant)
* Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): ??
</code></pre>
<p>Reflection</p>
<pre><code>* Strengths: Strong basic academics, well-rounded, expressed a lot of personality in essays
* Weaknesses: Ethnicity, well-rounded, no major awards
* Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: No clue. Luck?
</code></pre>
<p>General Comments:
I'm very surprised with myself, but also very pumped!!</p>
<p>bump this thread for reference</p>
<p>Being class of 2013, it scares the bejeebers out of me knowing that next time, I'll be posting my decision. :s</p>
<p>[ size=+2][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 800M, 780CR, 800W
[ *] ACT:33
[ *] SAT II:800MIIC 780 Bio 790 USH
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.9/4.0
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):3/500
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):2 4's mostly 5's. 8 APs total
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: 4 APs
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Siemens Semi-Finalist, Science olympiad state 3rd.
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Varsity Track Captain 4 years, Orchestra 4 years, Many clubs, Class President, Cabinet, NHS, all that good stuff.
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Work for parents during summer
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: 150
[ *] Summer Activities: Work, Caltech YESS
[ *] Essays:Good
[ *] Teacher Recommendation:Should be good
[ *] Counselor Rec: Good
[ *] Additional Rec:
[ *] Interview:Impressive
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):CA
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type:Public
[ *] Ethnicity:Black
[ *] Gender:M
[ *] Income Bracket: under 60k
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):URM
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths:Everything
[ *] Weaknesses:dunno
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My URM status did not help. I guess they want less intelligent URMs that contribute more[ /b][ list]</p>
<p>^ Just posting today? why?</p>
<p>^ He's a troll. He posted another chance thread where he has a 2110 SAT etc. and is in the class of 2013.</p>
<p>Holy crap...ssigh my SAT score is definitely not high enough for this thread.</p>
<p>=__= impending rejection before i even send my app in...</p>
<p>To Geoffrey... I never said i got in. This was just an experiment I admit this one was fake but all my other posts are real.</p>
<p>An experiment? care to explain?</p>
<p>A black guy with those stats would not typically get rejected unless he came off like a total prick lol</p>