gigantic official RD decisions thread: 2014

stripedpolkadots
Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:39:18 +0000

Pickone:
Decision:Accepted Tisch for Acting! 

Objectives:[ul]
[]SATI(superscore 2030): Critical Reading: 780 Writing: 720 Math: 530
[]ACT: 28
[]SATII(ifsubmitted): English: 730 U.S History: 730
[]UnweightedGPA(outof4.0): 3.6
[]Rank(percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank, but im probably in the top 15%
[]AP(place score in parenthesis): English: 4 U.S History: 4
[]Senior Year Course Load: All AP Classes except Pre-Cal and Yearbook. AP English IV, AP Philosophy, AP Government, AP Economics, Yearbook, College Biotechnology, Pre-AP Precal, BCIS
[]MajorAwards(USAMO,Inteletc.): National Acheivement Scholar Semi-finalist, District Champ in Current Events, 2nd team All-District (Basketball), French Award Finalist, Degree of Merit in the National Forensics League, Theatre
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[]Extracurriculars(place leadership in parenthesis): Basketball, Track, Interact (President), Yearbook (editor for three years), Student Council (Vice-president), Forensics, Quiz Bowl, Culture Club (secretary), Student Life Commitee
[]Volunteer/Communityservice: approx 100 at clinic, 50 hours at library (community service is required at my school, but I didn’t mention that)
[]Essays: 5.6 out of ten
[]TeacherRecommendation: I only saw one, and that one was good. But I imagine the one I didn’t see was a lot better, because that lady loves me(:
[]CounselorRec: didn’t see them, most likely okay, maybe a little above average.
[]AdditionalRec: didn’t have
[]Interview: There was an interview portion of my audition, which was really good, because I was able to explain how my ghetto school of 80 people did not have a theatre program (okay, it has one, but they spend a semester putting together a reader’s theater. Its mainly freshmen in the class)
[/ul]Other[ul] I went to a two-week theatre workshop at Texas State University, speak Spanish, a little French and Yoruba, travel to Nigeria frequently, and have 5 sisters and a brother (im the second oldest). I also go to school about ten miles from Fort Hood, and he asked me a question or two about the shootings. I don’t think that really had to much to do with anything though, so I should take that off. Also, I arranged for my school to sponser a little girl in Angola
[]AppliedforFinancialAid?: YES. Have not gotten any info back though, my FAFSA was a bit late.
[]IntendedMajor: DRAMA
[]State(ifdomesticapplicant): Texas
[]SchoolType: College Prep, Catholic, but really underfinanced.
[]Ethnicity: Nigerian-American (black)
[]Gender: Female(:
[]IncomeBracket: One of the higher ones, but I’ve also got a sister in college, five younger siblings, and a lot of other things I hope they take into account.
[]Hooks(URM,firstgenerationcollege,research,etc.): Workshop at TSU, showed that even though I wasn’t in theatre class, I’m still dedicated to acting.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[]Strengths: Extra-curriculars, Classes, Leadership Roles, maybe recommendation, definitely the common app questions, I used Spiderman as my New Yorker, talked about a trip to the market in Nigeria, and wrote an Anti-limerick when I couldn’t think of a good limerick. Maybe my scores a little? Definitely the reading and writing sections.
[]Weaknesses: MATH. Math, math, and oh… did I mention math? That and my extremely small resume.
[]Whyyouthinkyouwereaccepted/waitlisted/rejected: My application, and maybe my audition had something to do with it. I still don’t know. I did Val’s monologue (from ‘A Chorus Line’) and a monologue from Oscar Wilde’s ‘An Ideal Husband’. I had a lot of fun with them, but if I could change one thing, I would have started practicing earlier. I got my chorus line piece in October, but I changed to the Ideal Husband piece at the last minute, about two weeks before the NYU audition.
[/ul]GeneralComments: AAHHHH!! CAN’T BELIEVE IM IN!!!(: