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Decision: Rejected
SAT Scores (and # of sittings): N/A (will be doing January series)
ACT Scores (and # of sittings): 29
SAT II Scores (and # of sittings): 770 Chem, 760 Bio M
School Profile (Brief): Quite unique, classic British boarding school but we have many tudorian traditions (marching band, we march in boarding houses everyday, our uniform inspired Harry Potter, it’s called Christ’s Hospital)
GPA (Unweighted/Weighted): We didn’t do it but around 3.8 or above unweighted
Rank: N/A again but with a guess top 5%
Course Rigour: Most difficult available, full IB Diploma
AP/IB Scores: IB: Chemistry HL 7, Biology HL 7, Philosophy HL 7, Math SL 5, French SL 5, English SL 6, ToK and EE 3 (40/45, full diploma)
Notable Honours/Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): Best in country for a drum kit exam, but that’s about it
Notable Extra-Curricular Activities: -Senior drummer for school’s marching and concert band, we have toured Belgium and Germany and annually perform for half time show in England’s first cricket game, also done half time for England rugby, Lord Mayors’ Show/St. Matthew’s Day
-Rugby captain for 4 years, our 7s team came top in county (Sussex), have played for school varsity and local club
-Play flute, drum kit and snare drum all grade 8 standard (distinctions in all, currently doing drum kit diploma)
-Self taught piano
-Sang in school’s choir, have recorded for BBC and released CDs etc
-Got a scholarship exchange to the Gilman school in Baltimore, fully funded, for 4 weeks. Took AP classes and basically just did cool stuff
-Host website with my brother, we publish any essays we write independently on there (he studies neuroscience, I’m more philosophy), URL = http://lucasfmkovacs.wix.com/kotchbrothers
-YouTube Channel, I write and arrange my own renditions of songs and perform it on the flute, also done drum covers on there, URL = https://www.youtube.com/user/rizzo742/videos
Work Experience: Shadowed a gastroenterologist in 2013, since then have been employed at LA Fitness and Darlings of Chelsea
Non-Consistent Extra-Curricular Activities (Volunteering, Summer Activities, etc.): Busked to raise money for RSPCA, did a lot of stuff for CAS (IB) and volunteered at local charity/thrift store
Passions: Music and Gym and Nietzsche <3 <3 <3
Recommendations: Teacher 1: My old chemistry teacher and house master, was quite generic but showed that I actually did stuff in high school haha
Teacher 2: Probably really nice, he knew me quite well
Peer: Best friend, really made me smile, quite complimentary
Essays (and content, if you like): CommonApp was about me studying Hobbes’ social contract, essentially implying my future major in political philosophy. Kinda generic but am proud of it.
Supplemental was OK but could have been better, wrote about how I am intrigued by psychopaths and their behaviour, read loads of books on it
Interview: Lasted like and hour and a half, was good but I didn’t really know how to approach it, I suppose I could have been a little more friendly or talkative
Your Prospective Major: Philosophy/Politics
State/Country: UK
Ethnicity/Gender: Caucasian
Hooks: First Gen College
Strengths/Weaknesses: ACT score definitely, perhaps IB was a little weak
Your Assessment: I didn’t think they’d reject me tbh, I got deferred SCEA Harvard last year and this gap year I’ve really tried to improve my profile so it feels a little rash. Oh well. Definitely ACT score is embarrassing but I was kind of expecting/hoping that I’d be deferred and could cover up my scores with the Jan SAT. Nothing can be done now though. This rejection made me realise how badly I want to study across the pond, it’s motivated me really. First thing I did when I found out was do an SAT paper 
Other Acceptances/Rejections/Waitlists/Whither you plan(ned) to apply:Will apply to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, UPenn, Duke, John’s Hopkins, possibly Cornell too.