Demographics
-Gender: Female
-Race/Ethnicity: Black
-Residence: GA
-Income Bracket: 100K
-Type of School: Competitive Public
-Hooks: Girlscout
-Intended Major(s): Comp Sci (and planning to double major in CogSci)
Academics
-GPA (UW/W, out of 100): For EA - 90/92(3.75ish), For RD - 92/95 (3.8ish)
*upward trend in grade, covid 
and I explained how it affected me in my additional information section
-Rank (or percentile): School doesnāt rank
-# of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 2 Honors, 5 AP, 6 DE
-Senior Year Course Load: AP Stat, AP Afro, DE Lit 2, DE Philosophy, DE Comp & Appl, DE Lit 1, Physics, Teacher Assistant for APCSA
Standardized Testing
-SAT I: 1190 (first time I took SAT and hated it. Did not submit)
-ACT: This was was submitted for RD 33 (33E, 32M, 36R, 32S)
-ACT: This was submitted for EA 32 (33E, 28M, 36R, 32S)
- Thought it was important to show math score was lower for EA because Iām applying for Comp Sci and I didnāt take calculusā¦ Also, RPI was sent the 33ACT. When deferred I got the chance to update my scores to the 33.
AP/IB: Passed all of them with 3s 
and 4 in APES (yea I didnāt submit any), waiting on Stat and Afro
Extracurriculars/Activities
- Kept brief for anonymity
#1: Girl Scout - Ambassador (highest rank in GS). Easily 800+ hours (been doing this my whole life).
#2: Summer County IT intern, mostly data work for schools. Did two summers. 40-hour weeks over summer break.
#3: Peer tutors President/Founder. 11th/12th grade
#4: Black Student Union, treasurer 11th/12th, member 9th. Volunteer, awareness, and community.
#5 Umich research group for helping underprivileged women in STEM. 11th grade, member.
#6: Social Justice club, secretary(11th), officer(10th), member (9th). educate and volunteer 160+ hours during school year.
#7: Career acceleration program for minorities(outside of school), helps guarantee internships when you get to college. member 11th/12th grade. Learn networking and business skills, participate in local business events. 140+ hours.
#8: School coding group for underprivileged, 11th(member)/12th(officer). Coding things + volunteer at local school. 60ish hours
#9: Volunteer for cancer. Help organize events and raise money for cancer. Raised >100k to donate. One time event every year, around 5 hours each time. 9th-12th.
#10: Varsity Tennis, member 9th/10th. Iāve been playing my entire life and quit to play club tennis again. Seasonal.
Awards/Honors
List all awards and honors submitted on your application.
#1: College Board National African American Recognition Award
#2: Girl Scout Gold Award
#3 Computer Programming Certified by an international company
#4 Excellence certificate - Computer Science (school)
#5 Academic Excellence certificate - English (school)
Letters of Recommendation
-11th honors lit teacher: 10/10, said it was the best one she wrote and she wrote some for other kids applying to the same colleges. Only had her for one semester bc teacher shortage n all, but had the highest GPA in her class and I continue to say hi and catch up even now. Loved her and she is so sweet. She gave me an award that is only given to one student out of the entire school.
-APCSA teacher (11th/12th): 8/10. She was nice and I was in her APCSA class and now I work as a teachers assistant for her APCSA class. Didnāt really have too personal of a relationship and rec was pretty generic. Still love and appreciate her tho, glad she cleared up that Iām her TA because it wasnāt stated on my common app.
-Girlscout troop leader: 9/10, LOVE HER!
Interviews
-none, but I got super lucky to attend an online session that no one else signed up for with my admission officer for UMich. We talked for about 2 hours about the school and personal things. She was super sweet and answered all my questions. Learned she was also a Girl Scout and I helped her add more information about my school that affected the types of classes students could take. Loved her so much, she advised me on how I should write my supplemental essays without me asking 
Essays
Personal essay/common app: I loved my personal essay. I talked about what Iāve learned from my family and how each generation has taught me something. Talked about how we were the first generation to break the cycle of poverty and about my commitment to help break that cycle for others. Showed a lot of character, not so much of a āsob storyā but a reflection on how Iāve persevered. When I let others read they cried so I think it was pretty solid. 9.5/10
Supplementals were a lot of rinse n repeat.
UGA: Wrote about a book that related to me super well, sci-fi book about a black girl working with technology. I really liked it. 9/10
GT: Most basic/generic supplemental essay. I genuinely could not find something I enjoyed at GT, only applied just to not potentially throw out my chances of getting into a good tech school. Literally could not imagine an enjoyable college experience here. Went from my dream school to not even wanting to apply when senior year came around. Sorry yellow jackets! Accidentally talked about a trip that happened at UGA thinking it was GTš 4/10
BU: I really liked this essay. Talked about being an outcast in my community and contributing to closing the digital divide. 10/10
UMich: My favorite essays out of all of them. I still go back to look at them sometimes, felt natural writing these, and AO literally told me how I should write them (not like word for word but gave a lot of advice based on my situation and how I want to go into AI). I think I had a really creative way of answering the community essay and my āWhy Michiganā essay was so fun to write. 100/10
KSU: First supplemental essays. Super good, talked about AI. Used this essay as a blueprint for some of my later essays. 10/10
NCAT: For the honors application I talked about my chronic disease (the first and only time in all my essays). Reused one of my LIT essays for the prompt since it worked well, but sounded nerdy ngl. Once again tech related and mixed with social justice. 9/10
RPI: Rince and repeat of NCAT and KSU essay. Mostly talked about AI. 8/10, easy because RPI has done a lot with AI.
Mercer: They had super fun prompts, especially for the presidential scholarship application. Once again AI and social justice. 10/10
Acceptances(all accepted for CS):
EA: Mercer University (Presidential Scholarship/Full tuition + honors)
EA: University of Georgia deferred -> accepted (in-state Hope + Zell covers almost all of tuition)
EA: Kennesaw State University (Hope/Zell + honors)
EA: North Carolina A&T State University aka NCAT (Honors + finalist for scholarship but I withdrew since I knew I wasn't going to go).
EA: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (40k/year in scholarships, Garnet Baltimore and Womens Leadership scholarships, and also gave really good loans)
EA: University of Michigan!! DREAM SCHOOL!! (Honors + waiting on scholarships, but already committed. Call it manifesting! Got in for CS through advanced selection)
Waitlists:
None
Rejections:
RD: Boston University (gave transfer option)
`EA: Georgia Tech deferred ā rejected (explained aboveā¦)
EA: Northeastern deferred -> rejected
Direct admissions:
Illinois Institute of Technology (17.5k/year)
San Francisco Bay University (7.9k/year)
University of Tulsa (28k/year)
Hartwick College (42k/year)
Hope College (19.5k/year)
Alma College (31k/year)
Merrimack College (27.5k/year)
Maine Maritime Academy (7.5k/year)
University of Virginia's College at Wise (8kyear)
Long Island University (30k/year)
Capitol Technology University (11k/year)
University of Scranton (27k/year)
Missouri University of Science and Technology (13k/year)
Roger Williams University (21.5k/year)
Shrine: cant put in post 
, but Iāve explained on another very popular platform
Additional Information:
-Was a scholarship semi-finalist for a program that included BU (my admissions lady even talked to me about itā¦) Only put this when applying for RD.
-Talked about how covid affected me and how my school didnāt take the right measures to prevent the spread of covid so I spent the entire year online. ADHD medicine does NOT work well online and libraries were closed so couldnāt study outside of home ā lots of distractions. Therapy shut down too, and parents were battling covid for a long time.
-Had lots of Cs and Bs freshman year(due to reason above), but showed an upward trend with only Aās sophomore to senior year (when I went back in person).
-became part of a competitive MIT program AFTER applications, so only mentioned it in my letters of continued interest.
-Once again after EA, published in local college newspaper and nominated for a county award.
Reflection:
I was heavily relying on my essays and Iām glad that I was able to enjoy high school without trying to have those āivy statsā and demolishing my entire social life. I have no regrets and Iām glad about how things worked out. However, going through this thread and watching those ācollege decision reactionā videos DEF had me stressed and worried; I wonāt lie and say this process was easy. Everything works out in the end, and GO BLUE!
TO ALL THE UNDERCLASSMEN READING THIS, IF THERE IS ONE PIECE OF ADVICE I HAVE IS TO DO YOUR APPLICATIONS EARLY!! SENIORITIS IS VERY REAL AND IT WILL GET YOU.
