<p>Decision: Accepted to Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2050
[</em>] ACT: Didn’t take
[<em>] SAT II: Spanish 800. French 700. Math 630 (yuck. I know)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 62/888 … okay so I’ve been living in the USA for about eight years and I didn’t know that grades mattered. I thought that college admission was based on a test you would take senior year. haha. So when I received a crappy class rank sophomore year my counselor told me about how this all works… Now I have all As.
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Spanish (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): IB Diplomma Candidate. Math SL (6)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB Physics HL, IB Music HL, IB HOA HL, IB English HL, IB French HL, Top Orchestra, Jazz Band
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar, National Honor Society, Music Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, Questbridge National College Match Finalist, UIL, State BPA, State French competition winner [/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): PIANO!! Organ. Orchestra (Violin Since 6th grade. Top orchestra) Full Orchestra. Jazz Band (piano) Tri-M Music Honor Society (Founder/President), Business Professionals of America (President) French Club (Historian), French Symposium (Group Leader), National Honor Society (I didnt put this on common app. lol), Spanish Honor Society(Didn’t put this either), STARS (Secretary)<br>
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Accompanist (Learn 13+ songs weekly on the piano and organ well enough to accompany singers, choir, and/or orchestra.) I play 2-5 services weekly. I also worked at Kumon for a few months as a math/reading tutor.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 200+ hours at local community building. Some of my community service includes translating, working at the children’s clinic, and teaching a computer class. I also volunteered at Habitat for Humanity and other places.
[</em>] Summer Activities: Last summer I went to France with Rotary Exchange program. I spent the rest of the time playing piano.
[<em>] Essays: I think Northwestern looked at my Questbridge application. My common app essay topic was the “issue” one. I think it had great content. Honestly, I don’t think the writing was great, but maybe they took into consideration that I’ve only been speaking English for 8 years.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: I didn’t see them, but I think were really good.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: She said she took up all the space they gave her. We talk almost every day, so I think it was great.
[</em>] Additional Rec: Nope
[li] Interview: I was given the opportunity to have one, but looked into it too late. [/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): TX
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): I live in Texas now, but I’m from Colombia.
[<em>] School Type: Huge public school
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: <40,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/ul] URM, first generation college, low income, speaking English only 8 years? I don’t know if that would be one. </p>[/li]
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Extra-curriculars/Job/Courseload
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT! GPA
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: URM, Hispanic, interesting essay. Honestly, I don’t know how I was accepted. I didn’t think I would be.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/rejected/waitlisted:[/ul] Accepted at Emory, Boston College, Fordham, UT, Arizona. Waitlisted at NYU and Vanderbilt. Rejected at Yale and Harvard.
General Comments:
Congratulations everyone!</p>