Decision: Accepted
**Date applied: ** idk sorry 
probably late November
Date decision postmarked/received: late January (scholarship finalist)
Which school/major at USC: Cinema/Media Studies @ SCA
Scholarships: Presidential Scholarship (half tuition)
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): n/a
ACT (breakdown): 33 (36E, 36R, 30S, 29M)
SAT II (place score in parentheses): n/a
GPA (out of 4.0): 3.92 UW, 4.52 W
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parentheses): APUSH (5), Calc AB (5), English Lang (5)
IB (place score in parentheses): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: i don’t wanna go into this lol
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none except ap scholar and nation spanish exam?
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses):
- 4 years of acting in school productions
- 4 years of assistant directing middle school productions (my school is 6th-12th)
- managing/news and features editor at school paper
- VP and founding member of school’s MUN club
- year-round job on weekends at my Jewish community center
- 3 years as a tutor for a literacy organization with a chapter at my old title 1 elementary school
- did a year round internship/ambassador program with a big local theater company last year
- interned at a New York casting agency this summer
- founding member of local High School Democrats chapter (12th grade only)
- online media internship
Job/Work Experience: see above
Volunteer/Community Service: see above
Summer Activities: WashU Summer Scholar (2015), internships, camps, idk lol
Essays (rating 1-10, details): i can’t rate my own essays lol but i think i’m a pretty good writer
Teacher Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): probably good?
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details): good, she loves me
Interview: i loved my scholarship interview (didn’t do a regular one)
Other
Applied for Financial Aid? yeah but my documents got all messed up
State (if domestic applicant): CA
School Type: private, all girls
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female
Income Bracket: its complicated
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none lol
Reflection
Strengths: who can say?
Weaknesses: ¯_(ツ)/¯
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: ¯_(ツ)/¯
Where else you are applying or have already applied:
-accepted: USC, UMich EA, Emory, William & Mary, UCSB honors college
-waitlisted: WashU in St. Louis
-rejected: Northwestern
-waiting on: Berkeley, Tufts, Brown, Yale (lmao)
General Comments/Advice/Hindsight: good luck yall! idk why i came back to post this, guess i was feeling braggadocious today lol