<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Hah, no way in hell they were getting those scores!
[</em>] ACT (breakdown): 33: 34W, 35M, 32R, 33S (Essay 10)
[<em>] SAT II: 790 Chemistry, 780 Math II
[</em>] Weighted GPA: 4.5/4.6?
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10
[</em>] AP (place score in parentheses): Chem, Physics B, Modern European History, English Lang (4) Computer Science (5)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP BC Calc, AP Macro, AP Lit, AP Studio Art, Honors World Religions
[</em>] Number of other EA applicants in your school: Excluding me, 1 other
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, National Spanish Exam Gold, 2012 National Showcase (skating thing) second-runner up, 2013 EGL Regionals (another skating thing) Runner-up [/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Figure skating (13 years), Singing lessons (4 years), Art classes.
[</em>]Clubs: Math Club, Cum Laude, Science Bowl, National Art Honors Society (Treasurer)
[li] Volunteer/Community service: Tutor for refugees, Volunteer Figure Skating Instructor. 75 hours
But they don’t count the figure skating instructor stuff (it’s for profit)[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Writing (Write a brief description and Rate Quality on 1-10 Scale; 10 as Best):[ul]
[<em>] Essays (Include Subjects):[list]
[li] Common App Main: 6.5/7ish (About my how I used to live in the world of my laundry basket. This was not my finest hour in essay writing)[/li][</em>] Extended essay(which topic): 8.5 (Apples v. Oranges. I totally had this idea earlier and talked a bit about how they stole it from me)
[<em>] Optional Essay: 9 (I had waaaayyyy to good of a time with this essay, I structured it like the song “my favorite things” from the sound of music. It was just a giant list though so maybe I’m just a bit biased in my score because it was a song!)
[</em>] Why Chicago: 8 (Structured like a melodramatic love letter to the school)[/ul]
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation #1: From the teacher who gave me the worst grade ever, but she thought I grew a lot in that class. I think it was good.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: My guess is as good as yours.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: He just started this year, he hardly knew me at this point.
[</em>] Interview: Over the phone. I was just a slaphappy fan girl
is that a good thing?
[li] Art Supplement: Yerp. I included a lot of my skating and my art.[/list]</p>[/li]
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: A month early
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): TN
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[<em>] Gender:Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: >$100,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Hispanic female[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: As much as I hate to say it, race (although I’m not exactly poor, and my parents are very well educated), I think my art supplement was my greatest strength just because of the skating videos and all my real art
[</em>] Weaknesses: ACT wasn’t my highest, I’m pretty average for the school, writing not very strong, lame awards, no academic distinction,
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I think it came across that I really wanted to go to this school. Also, maybe I was a little interesting as a very scientific, yet very artistic student. No clue really though. Actually feel kind of lame looking at everyone else’s credentials.
[</em>] What would you have done differently?: Written better essays, taken the ACT earlier so they had seen my best score and not that not as good one that I had to send in (I procrastinate so much, that month early thing was only because the school requires it). Been more awesome at what I do.[/ul]</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations, etc: Now I’m going to go dance around my boom in celebratory delight and try not to think about the fact that my Calc exam tomorrow is going to kick my ass! (I have pre-mature senioritis, and this accept is not helping it)</p>