Emory Class of 2012 Decision Thread (II) !!

Nogueira
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:39:43 +0000

Decision: Accepted

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2030 CR: 650 Math: 730 W: 650
[] ACT:
[] SAT II:
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 6 out of 34
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): English Composition 4
[] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP English 12, American Government, Concert band, AP Economics, Physics, Apologetics, AP Calculus AB (Limits on number of APs that I can take)
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National scholarship commended, State Soccer Tournament Champions and 2nd Runner up, Malaysia international school soccer tournament Runner Up
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Soccer, Varsity Volleyball, School Representative for State Chess Tournament, Varsity softball (no baseball team here), J-Varsity Basketball
[] Job/Work Experience: Can’t work. Only have foreign student visa here
[] Volunteer/Community service: 70 odd hours being teacher assistant, helping out in cancer hospital and home for the blind, and tutoring other high school students
[] Summer Activities: nothing
[] Essays: excellent
[] Teacher Recommendation: good
[] Counselor Rec: good
[] Additional Rec: none
[] Interview: none too far away
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant):
[] Country (if international applicant): Malaysia
[] School Type: private christian
[] Ethnicity: Korean (US citizen)
[] Gender: M
[] Income Bracket: $60,000~$70,000
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: I guess the only strength I could think of is that I got around 15 awards or so, and that I got honor or high honor roll every semester/quarter.
[] Weaknesses: SAT, class ranking, GPA
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I showed active interest in the university, emailing about various questions i had often. I’m taking the hardest classload in this school, after going to the director to cancel the mandatory study halls so that I can take physics and band. Also, the fact that I’m going to a Christian university maybe helped in some way (since Emory has methodist background)? Not sure.
[/ul]General Comments: Good Luck!!