<p>Decision: Rejected
Objective:
ACT:
SAT: 2130, 740 M, 690 R, 700 W
SAT II: Math II 710, Physics 640
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6, 4.0 w
AP: English Lang, 2
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus AB, AP PHysics, Ap Gov/Pol, rest are honors
Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Hip Hop Club President, Key Club member
Job/Work Experience: n/a
Volunteer/Community service: around 80 hours
Summer Activities:
Personal Statement: ehhhh…
Intended Major: Comp Sci and Engineering
State: NV
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Filipino
Gender: M
Hooks:
Reflection
Strengths: SAT
Weaknesses: nothing that stands out, weak gpa, bad ECs
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: GPA was terrible, barely any ECs</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2160, CR 650, W 720, M 790
[</em>] ACT:NA
[<em>] SAT II: Math2 770, Physics 800, Chem 800
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 94/100 I guess
[<em>] UC GPA:NA
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): NA
[<em>] ELC?:
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Cal BC, English, Physics C Elec/Mechan, Chem, all 5s.
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Our school don’t offer APs, I self-studied a lot.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Chinese astronomy Olympiad, bunch of regional awards I won in U.S. and in China.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Foreign Exchange, Research for 3 month in a top University in China, Math League(president, in U.S.), speech(in U.S.), debate(in U.S.), charity, blah blah blah
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:internship at Chinese Academy of Science
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 40+hours
[<em>] Personal Statement: very good
[/ul][ b]Other**[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: International student, so I cant 
[<em>] Intended Major: Physics
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): China
[</em>] School Type: Magnet
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: 40,000 or so…
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): My good look
[/ul][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[<em>] Strengths: Essay, EC, others…
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My good look[/li][/list]b]General Comments:** Kinda frustrated just being wait-listed at Dartmouth and Cornell. International applicants really live hard lives. Still UCLA is a great school.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:**[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Didnt take it
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math 2, 740 Chemistry, 790 Physics
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] UC GPA: 4.53
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[<em>] ELC?: Top 9 percent
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calculus AB (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): none
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP CHem, AP Gov/Econ, Expos reading and Writing, Architectual Design, Baseball PE.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Baseball, Swimming, Swim Coach, Creative Writing, Football, Building, Odyssey of the Mind, Engineering Camps and Experience.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Swim Coach, Lifeguard
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer Organization in San Fran, volunteer swim and baseball coach, community service through church.
[<em>] Personal Statement: Wrote about one of my engineering experiences and how its affected my ability to work with others, and wrote about baseball.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[<em>] Intended Major: Civil Engineer
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Very competitive, large 600 per class
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian and Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: High
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Engineering Experience with very high grades. Also with a love of building.
[/ul]Reflection[list]
[<em>] Strengths: Good grades and good sports with good engineering experience.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Would have joined more clubs and have been more active in our schools community.
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2180, CR 730, W 720, M 730
ACT:NA
SAT II: Math2 780, Physics 790
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
UC GPA:NA
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): NA
ELC?:
AP (place score in parenthesis): Euro (3) [in 10th grade; I studied in Spain in 11th so didn’t take any there]
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: 6 AP’s English Lit, French, Macroeconomics, Physics, Chemistry, Calc BC
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Science Olympiad Regional 2nd places, Won regional spelling bee and competed in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 8th Grade
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Coordinated my own study abroad trip to Spain
Job/Work Experience: Tutored english, math and science in Spain
Volunteer/Community service: 40+hours
Personal Statement: very good
Applied for Financial Aid?:
Intended Major: Mechanical Engineering
State (if domestic applicant): Pennsylvania
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 100,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Motivation to coordinate study abroad</p>
<p>[<em>] Strengths: Essay,
[</em>] Weaknesses: Leadership [*] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Study abroad, interdisciplinary/well-roundedness</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Reading: 630 Math: 690 Writing: 690
[</em>] ACT: 31
[<em>] SAT II: Math 2: 690 Ecological Biology: 660
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.91
[<em>] UC GPA: 3.87
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 8 (at time of application)
[<em>] ELC?: Yes
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): European History (4), Calculus AB (5), English Lang/Comp (5), US History (3), Environmental Science (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C: Mechanics, AP English Lit/Comp, AP Calculus BC, Orchestra, AP Biology
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
-Girl Scout since 5 or 6 years old (Venturing treasurer)
-Varsity Tennis since Freshman Year (Captain Junior/senior year)
-GGHS String Orchestra since Freshman Year (section leader freshman year, concert master senior year)
-Gifted and Talented Education - High School String Ensemble freshman year
-Instrumental Music Council since sophomore year (Orchestra treasurer, then vice president, now president)
-Korean Club (project chair
-Argo Marine Science Club (member in fresh, secretary in soph, pres in junior)
-Member of MESA
-Writer’s Helpline (Co-VP)
-Japanese Club (Interclub Council Representative)
-Member of Vietnamese club freshman year
-Chosen by the Sister Cities of Garden Grove as one of 10 students to go to Korea in Spring Break as ambassadors to Garden Grove
-First sophomore member of National Honor Society
-entered a completed project with a group to the QuikSCience Competition
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:
-hired as a violinist for concerts
-tutored math/physics/Spanish
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:
-250+ community service hours
[<em>] Personal Statement:
I wrote about how I imitated my sister all my life until I realized that I couldn’t follow her like a cookie cutter; I had to find something to distinguish myself from her. (Pretty much my high school identity crisis regarding my sister.)
I also wrote about how excited I was to go to Korea last year as a sister city ambassador and how I was so excited to learn about their culture there.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[<em>] Intended Major: Environmental Engineering
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): UCLA
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Vietnamese-American
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: $120,000+
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Gold Award candidate (just recently finished my project)
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Extra-curriculars, definitely. Not trying to brag, but I feel like a very well-rounded candidate, with maybe a little bit of deficiency at the standardized testing side of it all.
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT scores. AHAHAHA.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I would like to say ELC, but I don’t think ELC could get me into UCLA… o___O;; I would like to think it’s because of my extracurriculars and academic strength :’)[/li][/ul]General Comments: Good Luck!!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted by L&S Computational Biology</p>
<p>Objective
- SAT I (breakdown): 750 M 780 R 800W 9 (2330) (1st sitting)
- ACT:
- SAT II: 800’s Chem, Math, Bio E, Physics
- Unweighted UC GPA (out of 4.0): 3.88
- Weighted Uncapped: 4.77
- Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Doesn’t rank but I got ELC
- AP (place score in parenthesis): Calculus BC-A(5), Chemistry-A (5), Biology-A (5), APUSH –A (4), Spanish Lang-B (4), English Language Composition-A (3), European History-A (3)
- IB (place score in parenthesis):
- Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics, AP Statistics, AP Gov/Macroecon, Guitar, Chemical lab technician, English 12 CP, EPGY Online Intermediate C Programming(A)
- Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMSQT finalist, NHRP Scholar with distinctions, National AP Scholar with distinctions
Subjective: - Extracurriculars: A lot with leadership in almost each one. I even went to nationals for table tennis and I founded 2 local table tennis programs as well as one club. I even had a research internship at a cancer diagnostics startup where I wrote part of a clinical analysis. 12 years piano player receiving guild diploma this June.
- Job/Work Experience: none
- Volunteer/Community service: Soup kitchen, food bank work and homeless sandwich program founder, worked at a space museum for an entire summer operating telescopes
- Summer Activities: Summer Research Internship at a start-up, EPGY Summer Program- Discrete Math, EPGY Online C Programming
- Essays: Not giving up in sports after wrecking my legs (9/10); multicultural family (7/10)
- Teacher Recommendation: UC’s don’t have teacher recs???
- Counselor Rec: ??? (I’m from a huggeee public school so I have no idea what to expect)
- Additional Rec: UC’s don’t have these either???
- Interview: I didn’t get regents so no interview either (regents for bioe is small)
Other</p>
<ul>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): CA</li>
<li> Country (if international applicant):</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Hispanic</li>
<li>Gender: M </li>
<li>Income Bracket: 100k+</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
Reflection</li>
</ul>
<p>*Strengths: SAT’s, Essays, Research at Start-Up, Positive Grade trend 2 B’s in 9th , 1 B in 10th, 0 B in 11th
- Weaknesses: Freshmen Grades, no major awards
- Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Basically took every single AP/weighted class in my super competitive huge public school and got A’s in basically all of them. Also I got a high SAT
*Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: ACCEPTED-USC (1/2 Tution), UI Urbana (Achievement + Engineering Scholarship), CMU, U Michigan, UCLA, UCB,UCSD, UCI (Honors), UCSB&UCD (Regent), WAITLIST- WUSTL, MIT, Rice, Northwestern REJECTED: Stanford (EA), Caltech, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UPenn, Cornell
General Comments: Congratulations to everyone else who was accepted! To those waitlisted (out of state) or rejected: Keep believing in yourself</p>
<p>@thesmiter then why did you apply?</p>
Decision: Rejected
Engineering/CompSci
Objective
- SAT I (breakdown): 800 M 800 R 800W (2400) (2nd sitting)
- ACT: Didn’t take
- SAT II: 790 Chem, 800 Math, 800 US Hist
- Unweighted UC GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
- Weighted: School doesn’t weight
- Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10
- AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry-A (4), APUSH –A (5),European History-A (3)
- IB (place score in parenthesis):
- Senior Year Course Load: Physics, AP Statistics, AP Gov/Macro Econ, AP Lit
- Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): US Swim Scholastic All American, NMF, Presidential Scholar Candidate, AP Scholar, Cal-Nev Swim Sectional Finalist
Subjective: - Extracurriculars: Mostly swim related. Recruited swimmer at D3 level, School Newspaper Editor, Boy Scouts Ti Kwon Do, Fencing, Varsity Swim 3 years
- Job/Work Experience: Lifeguard
- Volunteer/Community service: Library Volunteer
- Summer Activities: Summer Team swim coach
- Essays: Competing with world class swimmers and learning how much harder he needs to work.
- Teacher Recommendation:English teacher was very good, don’t know about the other
- Counselor Rec: ??? (Public school so don’t what to expect)
- Additional Rec:
- Interview: None
- State (if domestic applicant): CA
- Country (if international applicant):
- School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: Asian
- Gender: M
- Income Bracket: 100k+
- Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Reflection
*Strengths: Perfect SAT’s, Perfect PSAT, Swimming
- Weaknesses: Leadership, Volunteering
- Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Swimming takes up much of his time, leaving little for anything else. In the end it appears as just another ROTM EC.
*Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted: Mudd, UCSD (Regents) UCD (Regent), Rejected: MIT, Waiting on Rice, USC, UCB, Stanford.
General Comments: There are some top notch candidates out there. Congratulations to everyone else who was accepted! Somewhat surprised by the UCLA rejection, but Mudd is by far his first choice.