<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800/800/800 E11
[</em>] ACT: n/a
[<em>] SAT II: 800/800/800 Math II, Literature, US History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.97, ~97 on my school's 100-pt scale
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3/425
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geography (5), World History (5), European History (5), US History (5), Physics B (5), Statistics (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Chem, AP Macro, AP US Government, AP Psychology, AP Literature, AP Environmental Science
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 1st in big national essay contest, NMF, TASP Finalist (idk if this counts)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Creative Writing (some minor awards, but this is my huge passion and I sent in a supplement); Science Olympiad (officer for 2 years, 16 medals at time of app, led team to Nationals, organized local tournament, coded website, etc...); Art (lessons for 4 years, sent in suppplement); Model UN; NHS; Beta; MARC Youth Leadership Program
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: couple of months at Kumon, restaurant since June 08
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: ~100 hours with NHS/Beta
[<em>] Summer Activities: UChicago summer session, trip for aforementioned essay contest, work
[</em>] Essays: Common App - my love for writing from the perspective of a younger self; Harvard - how a medical condition affected my view of the world
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: should've both been great
[</em>] Counselor Rec: very positive but not very informative
[<em>] Additional Rec: from boss at work
[</em>] Interview: fantastic. my interviewer said a billion times that she thought I'd be perfect for Harvard and avowed to write me a great report.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): GA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: 150k-200k
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): nope
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: numbers for sure, but I think more distinctively might be my abilities in writing and art
[<em>] Weaknesses: lack of leadership positions, lack of substantial awards for some big ECs
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I made the most convincing case for myself that I could, but didn't have quite enough substance to back it up.
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/li]Accepted: UGA, UChicago, Penn
Waitlisted: Stanford, Columbia
Rejected: Yale, Princeton
[/ul]General Comments:
Congrats to everyone who did get in! Today was a bit of a disappointing day, but I'll get over it. Crossing my fingers for the waitlist, but otherwise not expecting anything.</p>