Pick one:
Decision: Accepted
WITH TRUSTEE DISTINGUISHED!!!
Pick one:
Natural Sciences
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1600 superscore, 1560 single sitting (800M, 760 EBRW), 20 writing (6/6/8)
ACT: 36
SAT II: 800 Math II, 770 Chem, 750 Bio E
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): unranked (not in top 10%)
AP (place score in parenthesis): APHG, AP Bio, AP Chem, APUSH, AP Lang (all 5); AP Physics 1 (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: APES, AP Lit, AP CSA, AP Macro, AP US Gov, AP Calc BC, AP Physics C
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): USABO semis, National German Exam gold award, NM Commended, AP Scholar with Distinction (lol)
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Competitive climbing, Science Bowl (captain), SciOly (VP Academics), GSA (VP 11, President 12), Linguistics Olympiad (VP 11, President 12), Mu Alpha Theta, Biology Olympiad (co-founder, technically VP but I didn’t say so), German Club
Job/Work Experience: party and events staff at my climbing gym since freshman year
Volunteer/Community service: OOF
Summer Activities: Governor’s School for Computational Physics
Essays: Common app: 8/10; Why Rice: 8/10; Why Majors: 9/10, Perspectives: garbage
Teacher Recommendation: Chem teacher and SciBowl/SciOly mentor: probably like a 7 but kinda hard to tell; AP Lang teacher: probably like a 9, I was really good at his class
Counselor Rec: impossible to tell… she gets me confused with my twin sister all the time
Additional Rec: climbing coach, probably like a 9. I’m one of the hardest-working kids on the team
Interview: 7/10, was almost 2 hours, but she asked me a lot of questions I wasn’t ready for
Other
State (if domestic applicant): TN
Country (if international applicant):
Intended major(s): Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Astrophysics, Earth Science
School Type: Medium-large public (368 in graduating class); top 20% is pretty competitive and there are a lot of 36 scorers
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female
Income Bracket: 150,000-170,000 (twin sister also going to college tho)
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none lol
Reflection
Strengths: test scores, kind of unique extracurricular, Gov School, good interview, hella interest
Weaknesses: no class rank (I’m like 3 places out of the top 10%, which is ranked. The other ED ap
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: idk
General Comments: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA