Decision: Rejected
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2180 (750 CR, 770 M, 660 W)
ACT (breakdown): 34 (35 E, 31 M, 34 R, 36 S)
SAT II: 760 Chemistry, 670 US History (whoops)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
Weighted GPA: 4.25
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry (5), US History (4), English Lang (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Calc, AP Bio, Physics, Lab Assistant/Debate, Gov/Econ
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit and Ap Scholar are the only national ones
Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Student Government President. Science Quizbowl (Captain, came in first place in State). Science Olympiad (a few first place medals from state and regionals). Youth Judicial (Second place team in the state), Youth Legislature (Director of Legislative Affairs, my bill was 1 of 3 signed into law out of almost 200). Model United Nations (charter member, attended Vanderbilt and Harvard competitions). Boys State (elected into statewide office, won Most Outstanding Judicial Delegate Award). Student run charity at my school (co-founding member, raises almost 25k a year). A few other less important ones.
Job/Work Experience: Six month intern at Neurologists office, Lifeguard during one summer, Lab assistant for AP Chemistry teacher two years
Volunteer/Community service: Charter member of a non-profit at my high school. Won state recognition, raises over 25k a year, free peer tutoring, member of a few other service clubs
Summer Activities: leadership trip for a month to Alaska, Traveled through all of western US one whole summer, (all traveling, no time for anything impressive)
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Btw I feel like this is entirely subjective and completely irrelevant because people have a skewed vision of their own essays
Common App: 8, very unique transition from childhood to adult essay, interesting perspective brought by a
small conversation
Supplements: 9/10, all very good, but not so vain to say they are 10/10
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 9, AP Chem teacher, said I was in top 1 percent of students she has ever taught, first student she has ever taught to make over a 100 in her class and score a 5 on the exam. I was also the only junior in the class.
Teacher Rec #2: 8, AP Lang teacher, talked mostly about my leadership capacity and the joy I was to have in class, not a 9 or 10 because there was too much restating of my resume in it.
Counselor Rec: 10, she absolutely loves me, talked very highly of me and my abilities.
Additional Rec: Didn’t submit
Interview: There are no interviews where Im from
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Chemistry
State (if domestic applicant): AL
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
Income Bracket: 250k+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
Reflection
Strengths: Supplements, Extracurriculars, Recommendations
Weaknesses: SATI writing section, SATII scores, my school only offers 8 AP classes
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I mean, 9.8 percent of almost eight thousand applicants were admitted, and supposedly 70 percent of those who applied were qualified enough, entirely subjective to uncontrollable factors
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to Boston College (only decision I know of right now) Applied to 12 schools total, I really really want to go to Rice University.
General Comments:
I was expecting to be rejected, and I am okay with it, I only wish I could get the 150+ dollars I spent applying back…
Life will go on
My AP Lang and AP Chemistry teacher wrote them