<p>**Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:
[<em>]SAT I (breakdown): 800CR 750M 710W
[</em>]ACT: 34 composite, don’t remember sections, but were almost equivalent to SAT breakdown
[<em>]SAT II: didn’t send
[</em>]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.84
[<em>]Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 5th
[</em>]AP (place score in parenthesis): none offered at high school
[<em>]IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>]Senior Year Course Load: College Writing, Survey of american history (college cred), Gen Chem at a local liberal arts college, Band, Choir, Gym, World Literature, regents physics
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMS commended scholar</p>[/li]
<p>[/list]Subjective:
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Environmental Club (President), Class President, Student Council (VP), school Musical (Lead), Youth Court Attorney
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Youth Court +100 hours, river cleanups
[</em>] Summer Activities: none on app
[<em>] Essays: Common App essay decent, Macalester supplement was probably my best application essay
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: 1st undoubtedly made the admissions officer cry, the second probably wasn’t bad either
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Not necessarily Nobel-Prize literature, however, coming from a small school with an eclectic course offering, this letter was central to explaining my academic situation
[</em>] Additional Rec: none
[<em>] Interview: none
[</em>] Supplementary Material: none</p>
<p>[/list]Other
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): New York
Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Small, Rural (average graduating class: 50)
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket(mention if FA candidate): upper middle
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I guess the rural part maybe… I know other kids who used this as a hook to get into HPY</p>
<p>[/list]Reflection
[<em>] Strengths: Good writing, good test scores, passionate ECs, fantastic letters, and college courseload at a school that offers no APs
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA/class rank not earth-shattering
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted: All of the above statistics obviously helped; the supplemental essay was pretty convincing as well
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Geneseo (accepted), Syracuse (accepted), uChicago (waitlisted), waiting on 5 others</p>
<p>[/list]**General Comments: **
I’m excited to visit Mac, I’ve been leaning more and more in that direction as I completed applications. Of course I still have a lot of schools to hear back from so I’m not going to pretend to make a decision.</p>