| Accepted!!!!!
Decision: ACCEPTED!!!!!!!
Stats:
SAT: 2260 M770 CR770 W720 (ewww writing, I got a nine both times, guess I can't spew out bs for the SAT people. Also the second time I took writing, I almost ran over a squirrel on the way to the testing center and was freaked out the whole time, could barely concentrate). (took SATs three times but once was to get accepted into my state semi-public school)
SAT IIs: Math II-720 (hahhahaha I should have done so much better, eh.), English- 770, BioE-800!!!! (I had a great genetics teacher. I took bioM but didn't do as well.)
GPA: 3.76/4
Rank: school does not rank, about 200 kids in each grade, really no idea
Other stats: AP Calc BC-5 (I've had 5 semesters of various calculus topics so it was really easy), AP Eng Lit-5, AP Bio-?? yet to take, AP Spanish-4
Subjective:
Essays: I wrote all of my college essays the week before the duedate. I only let my Brown essays get proofread.
Teacher Recs: my recs were written by the most beastly (read: really hard) teachers in the school, my microbiology teacher and my english teacher that I've had for 5 semesters. I never got to see the recs but my English teacher handwrote recs for each school that I applied to seperately.
Counselor Rec: I switched schools after 9th grade, then had a new cac each year after that. In 11th grade I thought I finally landed a good (compassionate even) cac but she left and some lady replaced her. I've talked to the new one all of three times in my life, but I was polite and things so I bet she wrote something generic.
Hook?: Native Russian speaker, also born in Russia though I didn't write about this. Apparently my writing is moving. I wrote about the open curriculum a lot and exactly why it fit me, so did my bio teacher in my rec (as he says).
State or Country: IL
School Type: semi-public magnet school, every class is "honors".
Ethnicity: Russian
Gender: female
School ECs: umm some SciOly, math team for one year, swim team for one year, was a writer and cartoonist for a student run satire magazine for three years, tutor for refugees that came to the school for one year, environmental club, reading discussion club. Oh yeah I also did research with a professor at a university for two years during the school year, my school has a program that sets us up like that. It was embryogenesis research!
Other ECs: Volunteer work (200+ hours, generally environmental stuff and in my local library), Art school for nine years woo!
Awards: Lots of Science Fair stuff, went to AAAS national science fair conference in San Francisco last year (lots of fun!)
Other Factors: I was going to send in art stuff but I didn't have time to, I visited the campus and mentioned that once, and I didn't do an interview even though everyone in the world pressured me to.
General Comments: I didn't believe it when I checked online and lay down for a bit, but when I got back up IT WAS STILL THERE. JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!
P.S. the acceptance rate was about 7%, omg omg omg..... |