Accepted! I couldn’t be happier. Vassar is one of my top choices.
ACT (breakdown): 34
SAT II: Lit 690. 790 US
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Not sure. 4.13 weighted
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Euro (5) APUSH (5) AP Lang (5)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Stat, Spanish V H, Anatomy H, and english and judaics electives.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Outstanding Attorney Award (7), AP Scholar
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Student Council (President) Mock Trial (Captain) Los Ninos Primero (Teen Leader) Initiatives? (Got Planned Parenthood to teach Sex Ed at my school, helped re-write the handbook with the administration). There are other things I’m involved in but these are the biggest
Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer at a jump-start for Hispanic kids. Spend all of June as a TA in a class of twenty 6-year-olds and help them learn. “Los Ninos Primero.”
Summer Activities: ^Ditto. I also did a pre-college program focused on Social Justice
Essays: I wrote my extracurricular essay about Mock Trial and how I learned to work with others/lead. I wrote my “why vassar” about my overnight visit. I think that really helped me - I mentioned a class I visited, what the professor was teaching, and I mentioned his name.
Teacher Recommendation: I’m sure they were both good. One from APES teacher and one from a teacher I TA for.
Interview: Helpful for me, but I don’t think it influenced the admission decision. My interview was three weeks ago.
Applied for Financial Aid?: Nope
Intended Major: ???
State (if domestic applicant): Georgia
School Type: Private Jewish High School
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: I’m well off, not sure exactly how much.
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): My demonstrated interest. I traveled to campus, did an overnight, and shadowed a class. I believe this helped a LOT, as the admission officers knew I genuinely loved the school.
Reflection:
Good luck to the nervous Juniors reading this thread! Honestly, if you work hard all of high school it WILL pay off. You will get in to a great school.
Best of luck!
Vassar was in my top 3, so were it not for a full-tuition scholarship at USC Cinematic Arts, I’d be really, really upset.