<p>** Decision: Accepted**</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2130 (CR: 730, W: 760, M: 640)
[</em>] ACT: Did not take.
[<em>] SAT II: 710 Literature, 790 World History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is
unavailable): 1/118
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): NA
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): NA
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: A-Levels: Geography, Economics, History
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in
parenthesis): Swimming 21 hours p/week (not recruited); national relay medalist; national individual finalist; viola and violin, for eight years; founded school’s entrepreneur society; MUN delegate; soccer player, playing in international tournaments U14, U16, U18 (not recruited).
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: internship at UN and at a local dive company; journalist at national youth magazine
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: head of my school’s lower library
[</em>] Summer Activities: Swimming.
[<em>] Essays: About how I participated in the Arab Spring and how I dealt with an identity crisis in being a third culture kid. They were excellent.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: I read one and it was pretty good. I unassumingly did not waive my rights (FERPA) to see the recs later.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I’m sure it was absolutely stellar.
[</em>] Additional Rec: None.
[<em>] Interview: None.
[</em>] Supplementary Material(if any): My published book of poetry.</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): UK
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket(specify if applied for
FA): Don’t know.
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college,[/li]etc.): None. I wasn’t recruited for any sport.</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: My essays were probably what set me apart - how many of you can say you participated in/experienced a revolution?
[</em>] Weaknesses: Not enough community service or positions of leadership; no major awards.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/
waitlisted/rejected: Stellar essays I think.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/
waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Pomona, Bates, Harvard, Grinnell. Waitlisted: Dartmouth and Williams. Rejected: Princeton and Brown.
[/ul]General Comments: I’m really happy to be accepted! It all feels like some mad, mad dream.</p>