Accepted (my daughter)
Objective: Psychology major
ACT 33
Weighted GPA (out of ??): 4.3
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School does not rank
AP: AP Spanish, AP Psych, APUSH (school does not offer many AP’s, so my daughter took Honors classes)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc, AP Gov, AP Geo, AP Lit, Advanced Drama
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Many major national, state, and international awards (prefer not to state for privacy reasons)
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Editor of Newspaper, Founder and CEO of a non-profit, invented something that people use in the US and 7 other countries, lead roles in school productions
Job/Work Experience: Paid intern for a large US company, paid speaking engagements
Volunteer/Community service: Many hours of working with underprivileged kids
Summer Activities: 2 summers at 2 highly selective, prestigious academic programs
Essays: She wrote about her non-profit
Teacher Recommendations: we can only guess that they were good
Counselor Rec: she said she wrote the most glowing letter she has ever written in 20 years.
Other
State (if domestic applicant): out of state
School Type: private
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: female
Income Bracket: not qualifying for financial aid
Why you think you were accepted/not accepted and general comments: Her EC’s were truly outstanding and recognized by some major awards.
Other schools: accepted to UCSC, UCSD, UC Davis, Colorado - Boulder (honors college and scholarship), UCSB.
Waiting to hear from Ivies and Stanford