<p>Pick one:</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 1850 (Math 610, CR 600, Writing 630)
[</em>] SAT I superscore (breakdown):
[<em>] ACT (breakdown): -
[</em>] ACT superscore (breakdown):-
[<em>] SAT II: Math 1: 730, Physics:750
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): somewhere around 3,8
[<em>] Weighted GPA:
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[<em>] AP (place score in parentheses):
[</em>] IB (place score in parentheses):
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: no course choice option, so I took the courses that everyone else takes
[</em>] Number of other RD applicants in your school: 0
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):[/ul] 3rd place internationally in NASA aeronautics competition, listed as one of top 10 student bloggers in Greece, European Young scientists, competition finalist</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Request Productions, which is a media group ( Founder and CEO), basketball, blogging, astronomy, engineering, programming and many other things
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Tech Editor at one of the major greek tech blogs
[li] Volunteer/Community service:[/ul] mainttaining a non-profit website</p>[/li]
<p>Writing (Write a brief description and Rate Quality on 1-10 Scale; 10 as Best):[ul]
[<em>] Essays (Include Subjects):[list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: Basketball-7 or 8[/li][</em>] Department at MIT: Aerospace Engineering, 7
[<em>] What You Do That’s Creative?: I wrote about my passion for the things that I do, 8
[</em>] World You Come From: About the problems I face in Greece, 6
[<em>] Significant Challenge: a problem I faced at school year, 7
[</em>] Other:[/ul] I wrote also a Very good additional info essay
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation #1: probably great
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: probably great
[<em>] Counselor Rec: very good
[</em>] Additional Rec: no
[<em>] Interview: it went well, but it was a bit akward because the EC was typing all the time. we didn’t actually talk, like normal people do
[</em>] Art Supplement:[/list]</p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: 10/30/2010
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): Greece
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: greek
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] Income Bracket: 60,000-80,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/ul] I was the only kid from my entire city to apply to a US college</p>
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: personality, persistence
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT scores, GPA
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: my SAT scores really sucked and at my Interview I wasn’t a “rockstar”. I wasn’t unique and original probably.
[</em>] What would you have done differently?:[/ul] better interview, much better SAT scores and GPA, probably different answer to the 12a essay</p>
<p>Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations, etc:
I just want to congratulate the kids that got in! :-)</p>