Objective:Decision: Rejected - CC
SAT I (breakdown):n/a
ACT (breakdown):33 - 34, 31, 35, 32
SAT II: math 1-720; us history - 720
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis): us (4); apes (4); spanish (4); english lang (5); european history (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP psych, AP english lit, AP econ, CP gov, AP stats, AP art history
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): social leadership award (school wide so not that big),
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):model UN, school newspaper (editor), outside of school model UN program (head delegate), president and founder of a non profit, president and founder of a writing club, school magazine (editor)
Job/Work Experience: intern for 2 local newspapers, model
Volunteer/Community service: created my own non profit, supports research for a disease that my brother has; teach spanish to local kids
Summer Activities: took summer school at harvard, model UN
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 6-pretty generic and about how I love journalism - ended up not submitting that to any other school for RD. It’s what my counselor told me to write
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): 9- teacher that I bonded a lot with; 9-teacher that is really nice and knows what’s at stake for kids
Teacher Rec #1:
Teacher Rec #2:
Counselor Rec:
Additional Rec:
Interview: didn’t get one (?)
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: English
State (if domestic applicant):California
Country (if international applicant):
School Type:public
Ethnicity:white
Gender:female
Income Bracket:lowish
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
Reflection
Strengths:courses, GPA, recommendations, maybe extracurriculars?; i had a grad school legacy and a lab is named after some relative that died in the 1950s but idk how much either of those would’ve helped
Weaknesses: subject tests, essay, scores in general
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: scores? wasn’t the right fit? essay was kind of boring
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:
accepted: fordham, northeastern; still waiting on others
General Comments:
if you don’t love your essay, change it! Getting rejected was probably one of the best things that’s happened to me. Tbh, I was pretty sad at first–I cried for about three days lol but it made me buck up and realize what I needed to improve in my application. I ended up making a new essay that I really love–it’s a little risky but that’s more of who I am. congrats to everyone who got accepted and may the odds be ever in your favor (little cheesy but let’s roll with it) for the rest of y’all