donaldGuy

I found my stats post that I typed earlier and then had a crash .. luckily I was editing in an external editor (to change the "[ "s to "["s faster) and I recovered the temporary file

Accepted

Stats:

• SAT: 2340 ( 750M, 790CR, 800W)
• SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics
• GPA: 4.5241/4.0 (W/UW)
• Rank: 1/531
• AP Tests: 5s-CS AB, Calc BC, Physics B, English Comp, US History, Chemistry. 4s-Euro, Spanish Lang

Subjective

• Essays: Pretty good .. spent a lot of time on. 3a: playing DDR is relaxing. 3b: Very specific response about Course VI and possible UROPs at CSAIL or Media Lab. 4: Three tiered values - learning (taking hardest classes, learning on own, etc), living (friends, theater, chorus, fun), and loving (community service, caring about others, Boy Scouts, reading Philosophy and studying many different religions in a search for higher truth)
• Teacher Recs: Both forms topped out, Math letter complimentary but not too specific .. called me one of her best students ever and she's been teaching for 30->40 years. Humanities teacher (Spanish) worked on it very hard and it was very good
• Counselor Rec: Amazing. Very MIT-specific and complimentary.
• Supplementary Material: Essay about a schedule matching, facebook impersonating website I repeatedly created (lost code) that got used by over a quarter of my school (of 2400 people). Letter from my Research Mentor at NASA LaRC from last summer
• Interview: went amazing.. met with EC twice at a coffee shop, talked for a total of more than 4 hours about MIT, Life, Politics, Religious truth, Theater, Copyright Law, and many more things than I can remeber

Personal

• Location: Hampton Roads/Tidewater area of Virginia
• High School Type: Public. Math and Science School-within-a-school academy program.
• Ethnicity: Caucasian
• Gender: Male
• Applied for Financial Aid: Y

Other

• Extracurriculars: Boy Scouts (Eagle Scout, Philmont, National Jamboree), Theater, Chorus, Scholastic Bowl (several time champions), Mu Alpha Theta (VP, tutoring, local math competition)
• Awards: Brickell Scholar (local), Rensselaer Medal, National Merit, Summer Governor's School

I am so happy! sorry to all you who didn't get it this time. Best of luck in the regular round.

Peace,
~Donald Guy