Location/Person:
State or Country:
School Type:
Ethnicity:
Gender:
Other Factors:
General Comments: Try to include your college in the title too!
Example:
Accepted-Smeal College of Business
Stats:
SAT: 2400 800CR 800M 800W
SAT IIs: 800 Chem, 800 Math IIC, 800 Global History
GPA: 4.0
Rank: 1/250
Other stats: 5’s on every AP available
Subjective:
Essays: perfect
Teacher Recs: outstanding
Counselor Rec: superb
Hook (if any): triple legacy, recruited athlete, nobel laureate
Location/Person:
State or Country: Arkansas
School Type: Private
Ethnicity/Race: Eskimo
Gender: male
Other Factors: Elected mayor of a small town
General Comments: I’m so psyched to major in under water basket weaving!
Stats:
ACT: N/A
SAT: 1890
GPA: 4.0 W
Rank: 55 out of 941
Other Stats: 6 APs, the rest Honors classes
Subjective:
Essays: Common app essay about teaching myself to play guitar, nursing specialized answers were excellent
Teacher Recs: good
Counselor Rec: good
Hook: None
98 Hours of Community Service
Location/Person:
State or Country: NY
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
I was on the varsity swim team, varsity lacrosse team and won a few local, city, and national awards.
College: College of Arts and Sciences with a major of IDP - Neuroscience
Stats:
SAT: Did not submit.
SAT IIs: Did not take.
ACT: 29
GPA: 3.8 uw and 4.4 w
Rank: Top 10%
Other stats: Will graduate high school with 67 college credits (associates degree). Will have junior standing at UTK.
Subjective:
Essays: I submitted the optional common app essay because I had already written it for other schools. I did not spend much time on the supplemental essays.
Teacher Recs: Great
Counselor Rec: Great
Extracurricular Activities: Volunteered at three hospitals in Nashville, Red Cross, and other places (350 hours). I also shadowed several neurosurgeons and neurologists at Vanderbilt. I highlighted about that experience in my supplemental essay and why I wanted to study neuroscience.
Location/Person:
State or Country: Tennessee
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: Female
General Comments: As long as your stats are above average, you should get in.
Stats:
SAT: 720 M, 690 R, 1410 Composite
SAT IIs: n/a
GPA: 4.21 W, 3.9 UW
Rank: 1/approx. 250, but technically everyone who has above 4.0 at my school is considered “valedictorian.” Realistically, I’m probably around 3rd or 4th.
Other stats: attends a community college part time taking entry-level engineering classes
Subjective:
Essays: 8/10; one deals with my experiences with sexism in engineering but I made sure it didn’t sound petty. The other deals with one of my interests and is very good but contained a typo (the common app showed a dash in my pre-submit PDF but not after)
Teacher Recs: One is probably meh, the other is spectacular. I didn’t see either of them.
Counselor Rec: 9/10.
Hook (if any): Female mechanical engineer; I’m not first in family but I have 3 older siblings who didn’t go to college.
State or Country: VA
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female