<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2120: 710M 730R 680W
[</em>] SAT II: Math 2- 650, Chem- 670, US Hist- 740
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 4.53 out of ~4.65
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 12/~800
[<em>] AP (place score in parentheses): 5s on Calc AB and US History, 3 on Physics B
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Calc BC, English Lit, Euro, UML (umass lowell) chemistry, honors philosophy
[<em>] Number of other EA applicants in your school: 1, he got accepted
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP scholar, haha everyone gets this [/ul]</p>
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Varsity Alpine Skiing, Varsity Track and Field (discus), XC on the EMASS D1 champs 2009&2010 team, The Review school newspaper, Black Belt in American Kenpo Karate
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: food concessions business since freshman year, self-employed computer repair service
[li] Volunteer/Community service: various things for NHS, volunteered at LEGO robotics summer camps at the local community college the last 5 years [/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Writing (Write a brief description and Rate Quality on 1-10 Scale; 10 as Best):[ul]
[<em>] Essays (Include Subjects):[list]
[li] What You Do For Pleasure: 8[/li][</em>] Department at MIT: 7
[<em>] World You Come From: 10 (is that too bold?)
[</em>] Significant Challenge: 9
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation #1: I’m a math/science guy, and my old english teacher wrote me a fantastic recommendation
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: decent one from my old calc teacher
[<em>] Counselor Rec: not too bad considering I hardly know the guy
[</em>] Additional Rec: great rec from my old UMass Lowell Biology TA
[<em>] Interview: I thought it went extremely well
[</em>] Art Supplement: n/a[/ul]</p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: the night before it was due, so October 31st
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): MA
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: whiter than milk itself
[<em>] Gender: male
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~90,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none that I can think of[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: taken a lot of courses at UMass Lowell and aced them, good recommendations, varsity captain of skiing, had a great time at my interview, and also being self-employed probably looks good
[</em>] Weaknesses: my SAT2s sucked and my SAT scores weren’t too awesome either
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: probably my standardized test scores kept me from being accepted, so hopefully in the RD pool my other achievements will stand out, but we’ll have to wait and see
[</em>] What would you have done differently?: not a damn thing, high school’s been a great time[/ul]</p>
<p>Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations, etc: its undergrad. Let’s be serious now, no worries to all the people who were deferred or rejected let’s stay positive and focus on our other apps</p>