Decision: Deferred
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1540 (760 EBRW, 780 Math)
ACT (breakdown): taken once but not sent; 32
SAT II: 690 Math II, 750 Biology M
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.85
Weighted GPA: 4.35
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): none
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP World (3), AP Biology (5), AP US History (3), AP English Language & Composition (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): NONE
Senior Year Course Load: AP Chemistry, AP Government, Teacher’s Assistant for AP Biology, AP Calculus AB, Physical Education (mandatory in my school), AP English Language & Literature, News Journalism
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 3rd place in World Tang Soo Do Association World Championships 2018 Individual Competition, 3rd place in World Tang Soo Do Association World Championships 2018 Demonstration Competition, National Merit Scholar Commended Student, AP Scholar with Honors, Illinois State Scholar, Best of School Newspapers Online
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Speech Team, School Newspaper (News Editor), Martial Arts (Black Belt and Certified Instructor), Team Eagle Extreme Martial Arts Team, Eagle Academy of Martial Arts Demo Team, Waubonsie Valley High School Break the Ice Cultural Dance Competition, Girl Scouts, Fresh Connect Mentor, Indian Student Association
Job/Work Experience: Assitant Instructor at Eagle Academy of Martial Arts, Bookkeeper at Eagle Academy of Martial Arts, regular Nannying for a local family, Tutor for peers
Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer at Eagle Academy of Martial Arts
Summer Activities: Shadowed OB/GYN over the summer, Loyola University High School Digital Storytelling Workshop
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
COMMON APP: I’m really bad at considering my own essays because no matter how often I revise I won’t ever think it’s perfect but (8/10), used my love for Jeopardy! as a metaphor for my love of learning and my interest in a variety of subjects.
Harvard Supplement: (7/10) I did the prompt about what I want to give back to my peers at Harvard; I read it a little while ago and I feel like it wasn’t terrible but I think it could have been better; I talked about the importance of taking up learning opportunities wherever they may appear and about what specifically I wish to do at Harvard to give back to the community and to be engaged.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1 (rating 1-10, details): AP3 Teacher (10/10); I haven’t read it but I know her really well and we had a really great connection; she also wrote a letter of recommendation for the girl who got into Harvard from my school last year; she knew me very well intellectually and read my CommonApp essay so I feel like she knew what foot I wanted to put forward.
Teacher Rec #2 (rating 1-10, details): AP Biology Teacher (8/10); I haven’t read this one either, but I believe she wrote a good letter; I had her my sophomore year of high school and I’ve been her assitant this year; we’ve talked a lot about random things and I think she knows my work ethic and my passion.
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details): Two counselors (7/10); I haven’t read this, but my school switched counselors last year so my new counselor and old counselor worked together to write mine (most counselors don’t do that); my old counselor specfically said she wanted to make my rec ‘glowing’ so!!
Additional Rec (if any) (rating 1-10, details): My Newspaper adviser, (8/10); he talked about what I was like in a class that I actually had a lot of passion for, and added a unique not necessarily academic perspective of me. My other additional rec was my karate Master (6/10); I give it that score because I think it was a good recommendation but I feel like it was more surface level than my other recs.
Interview (if any) (rating 1-10, details): (8/10) I think it went well? I wouldn’t say we became best friends but I think we had an interesting conversation and I think I was able to elucidate a lot of important things about myself, like how maybe I want to major in biology BUT I want to study so much more and learn so much more like I want to take language courses and writing, so I expressed that it wasn’t like “I know exactly what I want to do” but I know what I want to study.
Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Biological Sciences
State (if domestic applicant): Illinois
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Large Public
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: Female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none 
I submitted two additional materials. I submitted one of the articles I’ve written for my school newspaper because I feel like it was a really good representation of my skills in writing and investigating. It was a pretty involved story. I also submitted an update about two weeks ago because I and a friend started an organization and there were new developments that I felt were important enought to warrant adding; we got a lot of attention in our district and town because we basically exposed my school for not following a state law and then we started like a movement to make the school follow it; we were featured in a lot of articles on local news and were on radio.
Reflections: Wish my GPA was higher but there’s not much I can do about that, I think I could have refined my supplemental essay more
Strengths: I think my essays count as strengths because I feel like they really spoke to my interests and my personality more than things like my grades and scores. I also think that my recommendations were good because they
Weaknesses: Relatively speaking, grades and GPA most likely were my greatest weakness combined with the fact that nothing else was particularly spectacular.
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