Consolidated EA/RD 2014 results thread

blackhair1
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:54:50 +0000

Rejected

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: I took TOEFL, 99
[]SAT II: MATH II 720, MATH I 800, PHYSICS 710
[]ACT:
[]GPA:7.4/10
[]Rank:2/27
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):[/ul] none, but these are taken (comparable to AP) courses: Latin, Dutch, Math B (calculus), micro and macro economics, physics, history, and Chinese (This sounds stupid, I don’t speak mandarin, I speak my own dialect).
Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: I think they were good, I didn’t brag much, I think I should have bragged more. Europeans are too shy compared to US Americans. BTW I wrote about early discrimination at high school. The elementary school teachers told my parents they have low expectations from me.
[]Recs: OK, one said that I was very hard working at school and outside of school (stock trading + restaurant)
[]Supplementary Material:
[]Summer Activities: summer university in Shanghai, enjoying vacation
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):[/ul] what? Nobel prize??
Personal[ul]
[]Location: Netherlands
[]High School Type: Grammar school, advanced placements only courses offered with obligatory Latin or Ancient Greek
[]Ethnicity:Chinese and I’m PROUD of it
[]Gender:[/ul] male
Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: 1800+ hours of work in a restaurant
[]Awards:
[]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: because I’m an international Asian and the low acceptance rate
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I would have had higher scores if I didn’t work so much. My economics teacher also mentioned I would have had even higher grades if I didn’t work so much.