| Accepted: USC (Annenberg), Cornell, Barnard, Northwestern (Medill)Waitlisted: None
Rejected: Yale, Stanford, Harvard
Attending: USC (w/ Presidential Scholarship)
High School Type: Independent
Location: New England
Race/Gender: White/Female
Prospective Major: Journalism (I applied to the journalism programs at USC and Northwestern, at the others I listed anthropology and comparative lit as my prospective majors)
Class rank: n/a
GPA UW/W: 3.9, give or take (my school doesn't actually use a 4.0 scale)
SATI: 2260 (730 V, 730 M, 800 W)
SATIIs:
740 Math IIC
760 Literature
680 Latin
APs:
I took AP classes but didn't submit AP scores (longish story)
ECs:
Sports Editor of school newspaper (a highly-renowned, high-stress, weekly paper)
Writing Editor of monthly student life magazine
French horn
various volunteer activities
JV sport- captain
Writer for weekly news digest
Work experience:
computer technician- 40hrs/week, two consecutive summers
Essays: My main common app essay was pretty light hearted. I liked it, but it was a bit long, and in retrospect, I might've done it differently. I was very proud of most of my supplemetal essays, though (with the exception of Harvard). My Yale supplemental essay was actually one of the best thing I've ever written (I still love it, despite the fact that it clearly didn't work as I'd hoped).
Recommendations: Never saw them, but I assume they were good.
Awards:
Nothing on the national level, a few on the state level-- nothing particularly impressive or worth mentioning. |