<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 800CR 750M 790W
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II 770 Physics
[<em>]GPA: 95/100
[</em>]Rank: school does not rank
[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): none relevent
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Excellent but perhaps too needy (I really love your school take me!!!111) in retrospect
[<em>]Teacher Recs: “unconditionally best student I have ever had” in both cases
[</em>]Counselor Rec: stellar AFAIK
[<em>]Supplementary Material: music (oboe)
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none apparently
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Vancouver BC
[</em>]High School Type: Independent non-denominational
[<em>]Ethnicity: not reported on application
[</em>]Gender: male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: robotics (independent, not FIRST or anything), debating/MUN, music, writing (scifi)
[</em>]Awards: assorted math/physics contest awards; other irrelevant humanities awards
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I really would have loved to attend, but I suspect on paper I would have looked like a poor fit. I’ll make sure to save my rejection letter for when I get tenure at Caltech :P[/ul]</p>