Choose one:
Decision: Rejected
**Date applied: **11/25/2014
**Date decision postmarked/received:**3/26/2015 checked on portal
Which school/major at Tulane : Business
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):Didn’t take
ACT (breakdown): 34
SAT II (place score in parentheses):Didn’t submit Had Math 2 780, Chinese 780, Literature 740, Biology E 760
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.82
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 28/350
AP (place score in parentheses): Lang(5) Chem(3) APUSH(4) Calc AB(5) Bio(5) Didn’t submit either. I cheaped out.
IB (place score in parentheses):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Econ, APES, Ceramics.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Obtained first place state award in art contest. Won numerous aca deca regional gold medals.
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Published in a national medical journal regarding diabetic medicine as co-author, formerly nationally ranked swimmer-competed junior olympic time trials, state team, stopped swimming sophomore year because of arm injury, picked up tennis-won D2 Section title,
President of Academic Decathlon, President and founder of Red Cross Club,
Job/Work Experience: Biomedical research at local pharmacy school, medical intern at local clinic
Volunteer/Community Service:600+ hours as dementia aid, 400+ as Sunday School teacher. Started both in 7th grade. Kept both up till now.
Summer Activities: Sat around twiddling my thumbs as a lifeguard.
Essays:. Talked about livers and how they fail and can regain function and how we need to do something similar.
Teacher Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):: No idea.
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details):: No idea. I never really even talked to her, so it must have been generic.
Additional Rec (rating 1-10, details)::
Interview: N/A
Other
Applied for Financial Aid? Nope
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant) USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity:Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket:>300k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nada, no longer possible for me to be a recruited athlete, except maybe at a D3.
Reflection
Strengths: Maybe my ECs.
Weaknesses: GPA. Definitely GPA. Should’ve focused more in school.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: No idea.
Where else you are applying or have already applied: Accepted: University of Austin Texas Petroleum, Texas A&M Petroleum, UNC Chapel Hill Public Health, UOP Five year Pharm, USC, University of Iowa full ride and a few more.
Waitlisted: Colorado School of Mines, Vanderbilt, Wash U, Notre Dame
Rejected: UPenn, Duke, UCLA, Tulane.
General Comments/Advice/Hindsight: Funny thing is they sent me a free application first. Who would’ve guessed?