<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:
• SAT I (breakdown): 2140 (760 M, 700 CR, 680 W)
• ACT (breakdown): N/A
• SAT II : 800 Math II, 770 Bio E
• GPA: 4.14 (School used strange scale, I confuse myself trying to explain it so…meh)
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School does not rank
• AP (place score in parentheses): Biology (4) (Did not report)
• IB (place score in parentheses):
• Senior Year Course Load: Math Honors, English Honors, College-level Chemistry, Environmental Science, US Government, Chinese Literature
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Subjective:</p>
<p>• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Debate (president 1 year, teaching assistant this year), MUN (treasurer), Swim Team, School Publication (editor 1 year, yearly contributor)
• Job/Work Experience: Biomedical Research at hospital affiliated with nearby university (intern, not paid)
• Volunteer/Community Service: 1 week trip to impoverished elementary school in Taoyuan mountains to teach and serve students
• Summer Activities: Biomedical research (accumulated ~1000 hours over the years, went there during winter break too)
• Essays: Spent A LOT of time on them, they were my only chance….
• Teacher Recommendations: Decent one from English honors teacher, best-in-career one from US gov/US history teacher (to be fair she’s only taught for 7 years) Did not read either of them, speculation comes from what another teacher told me and the understanding I have of these two teachers.
• Counselor Rec: Decent, did not read
• Additional Rec:
• Interview: N/A
Other</p>
<p>• State (if domestic applicant):
• Country (if international applicant): Taiwan (USA/ROC dual citizen, so still domestic applicant)
• School Type: Private
• Ethnicity: Asian….sigh
• Gender: M
• Income Bracket: 100,000
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nope
Reflection</p>
<p>• Strengths: Research? Essays? Nothing tbh….
• Weaknesses: Not a standout, nothing extraordinary, meh scores, not that well-rounded
• Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: the mediocre one among the mediocre applicants
• Where else you are applying or have already applied: Yale, Brown, Columbia, Harvard, WUSTL, Rice, U of Michigan, Tulane, Fordham, Duke, JHU</p>
<p>General Comments/Advice/Hindsight: Was pretty upset for quite a while although I should not have been considering my stats and the fact that it was Stanford… I had a friend who passed away during soph year who LOVED Stanford and I thought I could get in for her (I LOVE Stanford too……) Anyways filling this out and posting it is sort of a healing process. I don’t regret applying cause well, as Mark Twain said, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” To all potential applicants reading this, please do not hesitate to apply even if your stats are similar to mine, even if rejected, I doubt you’ll regret giving yourself the chance. Remember, it’s 100% going to be “rejection” if you don’t apply! To the accepted ones, YOU DESERVE IT, and please do know how lucky you all are to have the chance to matriculate into this amazing school. </p>