<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2300
[</em>] SAT I superscore (breakdown): Writing: 760, Reading: 740, Math: 800
[<em>] ACT (breakdown):
[</em>] ACT superscore (breakdown):
[<em>] SAT II: US History: 760, Math 2: 800, Physics: 740
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 4.6
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/331
[<em>] AP (place score in parentheses): Calc BC (5), US Hist (5), Eng Lang and Comp (5), Stats (4), Human Geo (4), Comp. Gov’t (3)
[</em>] IB (place score in parentheses): German (4)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: HL IB English, Amer. History, Math, Music, SL IB Physics, TOK, H Earth Sci, Lit and Film
[</em>] Number of other RD applicants in your school: 0
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):[/ul] Jack Kent Cooke Young Scholar</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Varsity Golf and Tennis, Academic Team (Co-Captain), Chess Club, NHS, History Club, Table Tennis Club, Model UN, Math and Music Honor Society, Piano, and Orchestra (9th grade only)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Internship at Jefferson Accelerator Lab
[li] Volunteer/Community service:[/ul] Virginia Living Museum Volunteer</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: Table Tennis (8)[/li][</em>] Department at MIT: Mechanical Engineering (8)
[<em>] What You Do That’s Creative?: Piano (10) This was one of my favorites
[</em>] World You Come From: Talked about my low-income, Chinese family (8)
[<em>] Significant Challenge: Gahh I should’ve done this earlier I can’t seem to remember exactly, but I’m almost sure it was about my transition from middle school to high school IB. (8)
[</em>] Other:[/ul] I actually added an essay I wrote about me being Asian and how I do/don’t fit the stereotypes. Very funny and showed a lot of my social side. This was one of my favorite ones to write (10)
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation #1: Math Teacher, Absolutely loves me, I actually go to read this one too (10)
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: English Teacher/Academic Team Coach, only taught me in 9th grade but we know each other very well. Didn’t read but I’m guessing…(9)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Being in IB, I have had the same counselor since ninth grade and she really takes the time to get to know all of us personally. Didn’t read but I’d definitely say a… (10)
[</em>] Additional Rec: My piano teacher for the last 10 years. I read this one, she’s not really much of a writer so she just kinda bragged about all my piano accomplishments. (7)
[<em>] Interview: My guy was really chill about everything. It wasn’t really an interview because he really only asked me one question. After that we just talked about whatever was on our minds.
[</em>] Art Supplement:[/list] Sent in a recording of my piano. Not sure how much the tape affected my app but if anyone were to ask me why I think I got into MIT and Stanford I would definitely say piano, hands down. If I didn’t have this I’m almost sure I would’ve gotten rejected.</p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: Don’t remember, not too late though but not exactly early either
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): Virginia
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type:Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: below $20000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/ul] Piano!</p>
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Piano, Essays, and Recs
[</em>] Weaknesses: Some of those AP scores… No leadership at all, no volunteering, no jobs… =x
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted because of piano in my opinion
[</em>] What would you have done differently?:[/ul] Nothing really</p>
<p>Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations, etc: In the end, I accepted Stanford over MIT, because I’m not really a city-person at all. It was still a good experience though. I was incredibly excited that I actually got accepted when the e-mail first came. Good luck to all future applicants and I wish everyone the best.</p>