Georgia Tech Class of 2015 RA Decisions

nne718
Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:52:00 +0000

Decision: Accepted

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): didn’t send
[] ACT: 34 composite (35E, 30M, 36R, 33S, 8 essay)
[] SAT II (if submitted): didn’t send
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 8/330 weighted. 2/330 unweighted.
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (5), Human Geography (5)
[] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[] Senior Year Course Load: Linear algebra, microbiology, a graduate-level English class, microeconomics, American government, biology, physics, Spanish, statistics. All college courses.
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Bronze medal at ISWEEEP, NASF, NMSF, some other science fair awards, STAR Student
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Intramural sports (2 years), yearbook executive (2 years), ambassador for my school (1 year), microbiology and neuroscience research (3 years), a Nigerian cultural organization (4 years), a leadership program run by my county (1 year), JV basketball (2 years)
[] Job/Work Experience: I teach biology to a group of undergraduates.
[] Volunteer/Community service: I’ve worked with local refugees for 2 years.
[] Essays: I wrote about my interest in Japanese and Korean music lol. Sounds lame, but it seems to be working. It’s not the best thing ever written, because creative writing isn’t my forte, but it showed my appreciation of diversity and world cultures and my sense of humor.
[] Teacher Recommendation:
[] Counselor Rec:
[] Additional Rec:
[] Interview:
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[] Intended Major: Biology
[] State (if domestic applicant): GA
[] Country (if international applicant):
[] School Type: Public
[] Ethnicity: Black (Nigerian-American)
[] Gender: F
[] Income Bracket: about 80k
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): URM, female, research
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Scores, hooks, research, college curriculum.
[] Weaknesses: ACT math, two Bs last semester
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Nobody from my school has ever been rejected.[/li][/ul]General Comments: I don’t plan on attending.