<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2360; Writing: 800, Critical Reading: 800, Math: 760
[</em>] SAT I superscore (breakdown): same as above
[<em>] ACT (breakdown):
[</em>] ACT superscore (breakdown):
[<em>] SAT II: Math 2: 800, Biology E: 740, US History: 760
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Weighted GPA:
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2
[<em>] AP (place score in parentheses): US History (5), Language and Comp (5), Literature and Comp, Calculus AB, European History
[</em>] IB (place score in parentheses):
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Literature and Composition, AP Calculus AB, AP European History (online), Band IV
[</em>] Number of other RD applicants in your school: none, ever.
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):Honor Band of America?[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Marching Band (drum major), Varsity Swimming (captain), club swimming, NHS (president)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Lifeguard/Swim Instructor continuously for two years
[li] Volunteer/Community service:NHS, Habitat for Humanity, also did a project trying to help elementary school kids learn about STEM[/ul]</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: build with Imaginext[/li][</em>] Department at MIT: Civil Engineering or Physics, used a star trek reference
[<em>] What You Do That’s Creative?:
[</em>] World You Come From: one of the poorest cities in the US
[<em>] Significant Challenge:
[</em>] Other: explaining why I’ve never taken Physics in high school[/ul]
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation #1: probably glowing, but I didn’t read it
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: she was a horrible teacher and didn’t like anyone, but my math teacher left so I had to ask her 
I basically taught the class a lot of the time so I don’t really know how this one went.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: meh. we’re not close but she’s cool.
[</em>] Additional Rec: My swim coach, she’s a good friend as well so this was most likely excellent
[<em>] Interview: Went pretty well, not stellar but we got along quite well and had some common ground
[</em>] Art Supplement: submitted a music supplement for the clarinet, I’m not that good so I don’t know if it made a difference[/list]</p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: Jan 1 (first thing I did on the new year)
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): North Carolina (eastern part, not raleigh/durham)
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: public, very poor
[<em>] Ethnicity: caucasian
[</em>] Gender: female
[<em>] Income Bracket: <40000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):low-income girl[/ul]</p>
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: I’ve done pretty well in some things (like music) despite the lack of opportunities in my school
[</em>] Weaknesses: no math/science ecs, no physics or ap science classes at all
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I don’t know…maybe they needed a clarinetist?
[</em>] What would you have done differently?: more community service but it worked out well :)[/ul]</p>
<p>Other Factors: I needed a LOT of financial aid but they’re need-blind so I guess that didn’t affect anything
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations, etc: I was incredibly shocked when I opened up the decision…I’ve wanted to go to MIT for a long time so it was amazing. I guess this shows that you can overcome your circumstances and that you can succeed by following what you love instead of what you think others want you to do (a lot of people at my school quit band because they want to take more online aps). I can’t wait to meet the other admits, and for anyone getting ready to apply, good luck!</p>