**Decision: Accepted
Objective:
[li] SAT I (breakdown): 2250-- 800 CR, 800 M, 650 W[/li][ *] ACT (breakdown): 35-- 36 R, 34 E, 33 M, 35 S
[ *] SAT II: 800 Math level 2, 760 US History
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.99
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/505
[ *] AP (place score in parentheses): 5: USGOV, USHIST, MACROECON, CALCAB, HUMANGEO, ENVIRON. 4: BIO, STAT, WORLDHIST,
[ *] IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calb BC, AP Physics 1, AP Physics 2, AP Physics C E&M, AP Physics C Mechanics, AP European History, AP Literature, AP Microeconomics
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A(Small awards, like principals honors roll, National merit commended, AP National scholar(the other ap awards))
[ /list][ b]Subjective:**
[ ] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): SECME(Engineering club)-VP, Anime Club, Magic the Gathering Club, Gay-Straight-Alliance, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, National Honor Society, Academic team(competition)
[ *] Job/Work Experience: N/A
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteering at a Food Pantry over junior summer, Volunteering at my middle school math competition club which I was a member of.
[ *] Summer Activities: See Above, Volunteering before senior year.
[ *] Essays: Pretty good! I was worried cause my commonapp essay heavily implied I was introverted(schools like outgoing students), but still great. Vanderbilt Essay seemed cheesy, but was about Mu Alpha Theta volunteering mentioned above.
[] Teacher Recommendation: I never read either, I can guarantee one of them was formulaic.
[] Counselor Rec: I never read, she didn’t know me too well. I told her to mention that I was gay, idk if she did.
[] Additional Rec: I actually had a vanderbilt Alumni who’s been my friend get to write one, but he never submitted! Peeved at him, but oh well!
[] Interview: Not sure. We managed to talk quite a lot, but we didn’t click like I did on my Penn interview. She was about 10 minutes late(So that’s good for me :P), and she ordered a drink but she never once touched it. Literally from buying the drink to walking out the door, she never took a single sip of her drink. Apparently she does dozens of interviews. I told her that I was gay(to ask about gay life at vandy), which seemed to faze her quite a bit, she acted very strange after it. She was pretty christian.
[] Supplementary Material: Uhmm… Idk.
[/list][ b]Other**
[]Applied for Financial Aid?: YES! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!! So happy with the award.
[] State (if domestic applicant): Florida
Country (if international applicant):
[] School Type: Public
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket(mention if FA candidate): ~70k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): … No hook. I guess just high test scores, very good essay, solid holistic application.[/li]
[/list][ b]Reflection**
[] Strengths: Test scores, GPA, maybe essay. My volunteer service sounds cool
[] Weaknesses: I was an engineering student, which they recommend a science SAT IIWhich I didn’t have). Uhmm. No major hooks. No solid weaknesses, as mentioned my major strength I guess was just holistic applcation.
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Strong application, though I actually didn’t think I would’ve gotten accepted since there’s a lack of hooks and someone from my school got accepted ED for engineering. Furthermore, the valedictorian from my school(also president of National honor society, captain of academic team, etc lol applied. She didn’t get accepted. Kinda makes me think that test scores matter too much to them)
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I was accepted to University of Virginia, Case Western, Rensselaer polytechnic, Georgia institute of technology, and UF. Got rejected from northwestern(I made a major mistake on my application though), still waiting on Rice and Johns Hopkins
[/list][ b]General Comments: ** SO EXCITED OMG. Though if Johns Hopkins or Rice accept me, will be such a tough decision.
Congrats to everyone else who got in!