Class of 2017 EA Decisions Thread

<p>[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted with 13K President’s Scholarship[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):630 Critical 650 Math 680 Writing
[ *] ACT: didn’t send
[ *] SAT II: didn’t send
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6
[ *] IB: 39 Predicted
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: Full IB Diploma </p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity baseball team, student council, model united nations
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Held a position at a charity one year before starting one of my own this year
[ *] Summer Activities: None
[ *] Essays: Sent in my worst essay</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yeah
[ *] Intended Major: undecided
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): International
[ *] Country (if international applicant): UAE
[ *] School Type: American/IB
[ *] Ethnicity: African American
[ *] Gender: Male</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: IB predict, ECs
[ *] Weaknesses: Test Scores
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Good IB predict and a lot of solid ECs to back it up, and probably my ethnicity too lol
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b]
Happy that I got accepted, but to be honest, I always expected it and always considered UMiami to be a solid safety school and nothing more</p>