** Decision: Deferred, then Rejected**
Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2130 (670 Reading, 790 Math, 690 Writing NOT submitted)
[] ACT: 35 (34 Reading, 34 Math, 35 English, 36 Science, 8 Essay, 31 English+Essay)
[] SAT II: 800s in Math II and Chemistry
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] UC GPA: ? Didn’t calculate, but school unweighted is ~4.5
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 6/~540
[] ELC?: No, out-of-state
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB and BC, Stats, Physics B, Chemistry, Psychology, APUSH, Micro and Macro Econ (5s); Spanish Lang and English Lang (4s)
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[] Senior Year Course Load: APES, AP US Gov, AP Eng Lit, AP Bio, AP Physics C (Mech and E&M), AP Euro, Graphic Design
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None, but National Merit, 7th nationally in Radio Commentary (S&D), Nat. AP Scholar,[/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars: FIRST Robotics FRC (LabVIEW, Programming lead for 2 years, made worlds freshman year), Speech and Debate (Parli, Congress, and Radio Commentary lead + state awards and distinction rank), CEE Econ Challenge (2nd in Wild Card), Science Olympiad (1st in state), DECA Business Competition (qual’d for nats in business management, high place at state in finance and ENI plan), History Bowl and Bee (3rd at regional, qual’d for nats in both), and Model UN (committee chair for 2 years), participation in many math and science competitions/olympiads. Also learned basic text-based programming during summer via EdX/Coursera.
[] Job/Work Experience: None
[] Volunteer/Community service: NHS (head tutor + over 150 hrs of in-school tutoring)
[] Essays: Common App was really good. 7/10 Good, but had difficulty on the last essay (Which is probably a big reason it didn’t work out)
[] Teacher Recs: Good recs from calculus, econ and chem teachers
[] Counselor Rec: Good I guess
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes, but didn’t expect or get any
[li]** Intended Major **: EECS (CS concentration) + Haas idk how it’ll play out[/li][] State (if domestic applicant): OR
[] School Type: Public
[] Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: High + Only-child
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): None, most were anti-hooks[/li]
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Grades, Test Scores, and EC involvement. Essays indirectly showing interest and passion for major???
[] Weaknesses: No major national awards, research, or extraordinary CS-related abilities
[] Schools were you accepted/waitlisted to? Accepted (All for CS): Berkeley!!! GTech, UIUC, UT Austin, UCLA, UCSD + safeties. Waitlisted: CMU (priority CS), Cornell, UW (in pre-science, for CS), UMich (CS), Purdue (CE)
[] Schools you were rejected from? MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Cambridge, ICL, Harvard, Penn, and Princeton
[li] Schools you are waiting for? None[/li][/ul]General Comments: Going to Berkeley!
Hustle I guess. With high test scores and applying to good universities where Aff.Action is against you, it’s the passion and what you can contribute to the campus that they care about. It’s sketch but yeah, different schools give more importance to different parts of the application. Excel or try to excel at one subject/activity that interests you, but explore other things and if they interest you, spend time on those too. Doing things just for college never hurts 
but, in my experience, colleges prefer the “king of the trade”, rather than the “jack of all trades” encouraged by the “well-rounded” notion. Yet some evidence of other interests and expressing diversity in some form is necessary. From my results, it’s pretty obvious that each college is different.