<p>A few days ago, I bumped into a girl who graduated from our school about a year and a half ago. I'd heard she applied to princeton, and I thought she'd gotten in, but when I talked to her the other day I found out that she had actually been rejected and is currently attending McGill.This shcoked me because this girl was at the top of her class and-- well here's everything:</p>
<p>Grades:
G10: 78% (roughly top 30-40%)
G11: 85% (top 20%)
G12: 99% (top 1%)
G13: 99.2% (top 1%)</p>
<p>Although her grades were really low in Grade 10, and sorta low (by Ivy standard) in G11, she was appointed valedictorian. </p>
<p>Scores:
SAT1: 2350 2nd test date (800M, 800W, 750R)
SAT2: 800MII, 730 US history, 780 Bio M</p>
<p>ECs:
-University support prefect (helped about half of her graduating class with their college applications) (G12)
-Head of Drama club, which was mostly 7th and 8th graders, and organized a recital for them at the end of the school year (G12)
-regular volunteer at the local Autism center (G 12 and 13) about 500 hours before application season
-worked 10hs/wk for a renowned publishing company translating books. The stuff she translated actually got published!
-She was also considering founding/ leading an organization called Teens 4 Positive action, where high school kids can join and arrange fundraising events and stuff but she never got the time.</p>
<p>Had she actually created the organization, would her application have looked much better? would she have been- perhaps- accepted?
She was also supposed to be Newsletter editor in grade 13 but that didn't work out either, would that too have made the diffrence between acceptance and rejection?
Or was it the fact that her Grade 10 and 11 grades were too low?</p>
<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated!</p>