<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul][<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2230. Math 770, CR 770, Writing 690.
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: Math II: 800, Bio M: 780, US History: 780.
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.92 (not including freshman grades because Stanford doesn’t).
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB, BC, Microeconomics, US History, European History, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, Statistics, English Lit: all 5. Comp Gov (self study), US Government, English Lang, Macro Economics: all 4. Spanish, Music Theory (5 non-aural, 2 aural), Environmental Science (8th grade): all 3.
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics B, AP Physics C, Linear Algebra, Vector Calculus, Capstone Biology, Capstone History, Capstone Spanish
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP International Diploma, AP National Scholar, National Merit Semifinalist[/ul]
Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Theater is largest, all years of highschool, 5000+ hours, 50+ shows, acting, teching, helping around the theater. Science Bowl, 4 years, went to nationals junior year. Competed in Poetry Out Loud for 3 years, went to state twice. AMC club, nearly qualified on AMC 10 in 10th grade and AMC 12 in 11th grade.<br>
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Worked as Light Technician, Sound Technician, Projections operator at my local theater.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Various service works for my theater as a general handyman and crew for shows.
[<em>] Summer Activities: Shows every summer, acting camp in 10th grade followed by new york trip, Stanford University Mathematics Camp in 11th grade.
[</em>] Essays (rating 1-10, details): Common App: 9+. Wrote about rising in the ranked system in League of Legends and used it to show my work ethic. Extra Curricular: 10. Talked about my love of theater and how it was the first place where I had a community that accepted me for who I was. Decent stuff for 50 words and less. Intellectual vitality: 8+. Wrote about how learning about rationality makes me question everything I believe and not take anything at face value, think for yourself sort of thing. Roommate 8+: talked about how I got into videogames and how it let me hang out with friends around my parents schedule. Felt kind of odd in places. Matters essay: 8+. Listed out a bunch of things that matter to me and why: being happy, thinking logically, fairness, knowledge. Sometimes I really liked it, sometimes I didn’t.
[<em>] Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):[list]
[li] Teacher Rec #1: From math teacher, I’m one of her star pupils, she helped me get into the Stanford University Mathematics Camp, she’s gotten tons of students into Stanford and the math camp, probably a 10.[/li][</em>] Teacher Rec #2: History teacher. I was a comic person in her class, not scared of her like some but willing to be kind of playful with her in class when most wouldn’t. Heard her writing isn’t the strongest but I think she put good things in. 8.5
[<em>] Counselor Rec: 10. She told me she wrote me a really strong rec and that she was really proud of me.
[</em>] Additional Rec: From the director of SUMaC, Rick Sommer, a professor at Stanford. I think I made a fairly good impression at the camp.[/ul][<em>] Interview: N/A[/list]
Other[ul]
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): Arizona
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): US
[</em>] School Type: Charter
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: 150,000+
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): SUMaC[/ul]
Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: SUMaC, no EC fatigue by spreading myself out too much, shows dedication to one thing, theater. Enough grades to get past the threshold, but also amazing course rigor showing I’m challenging myself. My essays were pretty original and very honest. They just talked about me as a person.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Sometimes my essays felt a little weak. I thought they were slightly too video game centric at times, and sometimes my writing seemed a little scattered.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think SUMaC was probably a major factor. It got me interested in Stanford in the first place.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Early, none others but local schools.[/ul]
General Comments: Be honest in your essays. Let them get to know you. Perfect test scores aren’t that important, they just want a certain level so they know you are capable of doing their classes. If you can get into SUMaC, I think it’s a major leg up. And if you don’t get in, there are tons of other good schools and you only need to get into 1. I’ll probably get rejected from some of the other top schools (applying for financial aid reasons, probably going to Stanford.) Good luck everyone!</p>