Decision: Waitlisted
Objective:
Selected major: Economics and International Affiars
SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW): NA
ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci): 32, 12, 33, 31, 36, 29
SAT II (Type, Score): NA
Weighted GPA (out of ??):
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 21 out of 222
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Human Geography (5), AP World History (5), AP United States History (5), Ap Psych (5), AP Lang (5), Ap Physics 1 (3)
IB (place score in parenthesis): NA
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP Environmental Science, AP Literature, PE 1, AP Governemnt, AP Macroeconomics, AP Calc BC
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar Award, President’s Scholar Award
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Youth In Government (Comptroller General @ state level, Party Leader), Model United Nations (distingueshed delegation twice, caucuss leader once), DECA, Environmental Club, Young Republicans Club (President, Founder), Y-Corps (Trip Captain), National Honors Society, Academic World Quest (Team Cpatian), Student Coucnil (Student Body Vice President), Model United Resource staffer, Tutor, On a Commnittee to establish Middle School Model UN/Youth In Governemnt at Local middle schools, Vice President of the Low Country Group, National Association of Youth Leaders (State Financial Advisor)
Job/Work Experience: None reported
Volunteer/Community service: Y-Corps service trip, 45 hours a year for NHS, Annual River Clean Up, Family Promise, Multiple student council activities
Summer Activities: Conference on National Affiars, National Judicial Conference, Y-Corps (The conference is the summer but it has to be planned all year)
Essays:
9/10 for Common App essay: The concept was really unique. I talked about the fundamental principles of identity, and wheter identity was objective or fluid. The only problem was the word count so the ending was cut short, but still interesting.
8/10 for Why UChicago essay: I wrote about Milton Friedman and the great economists who inspired me to not only want to pursue a career in economics, but also inspired me to go to University Of Chicago. I wrote about the opprotunities that I would have, the amamzing people I could meet and interact with and how living in the city would be a major shift for me from living in a small town.
7/10 for weird essay: Wrote about the concept of fate, and wheter or not it was real or not. I based it off a Rush Song. Good topic but I was a little rushed.
Teacher Recommendations:
9/10 for my Sociology teacher: She was our Model UN and YIG advisor as well and saw the leadership potentional in me, and encouraged me to explore it, but she also saw my academic potentilal and my academic drive in a school environemnt.
10/10. My English 2 H teacher and my AP lliterature teacher. She is like another parent to me, we talk about everything, we debate politics, we talk about life, college, we talk about girls. She has inspired me to pursue writing in the future and encourages my writing at every turn. She is truly a fantastic women and we know eachother very well.
Counselor Rec:
6/10: Going into my senior year, my guidance consuler retired, so I had a new one who I didn’t know very well. We have grown close and I like working with him, but at the time he wrote my reccomendation we didn’t know eachother very well which I feel weakend his reccomendation.
Outside Reccomender: 9/10. A good friend of mine who is the head program director of all Youth In Governemnt Programs at the YMCA of Greenville who I’ve worked with for countless conferneces. She saw me at my best in debate, in leadership, and just in life and we had a strong friendship and mutual respect for eachother.
Other:
Applied for Financial Aid? Yes
State (if domestic applicant): SC
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Middle Income
Property: Two houses
Extenuating Circumstances: My mom had to buy another house to prevent my family, who is unable to afford it, from being kicked out, dad doesn’t pay child support
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): NA
Why you think you were accepted/not accepted and general comments: Overall, my application was strong. I think however that my grades were possibly the main issue. While I’m ranked in the top 10% I had relatively bad grades in my freshmen and sophmore years (some low B’s and one C) and didn’t really pick it up till the end of my sophmore year . I felt though that my ACT was weaker than the general applicant pool, and that hurt me in the application process, plus having applied as an economics major I knew that it was going to be tough competiton.
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