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Accepted
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*Domestic *</p>
<p>Stats:
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[<em>]SAT I & II or ACT: 1360/IIC 750/MBio 740/Writing 720/29
[</em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.95 uw, 4.33 w, 3/251
[<em>]APs / other stats: Calc BC(3); US History(4); Bio(5)
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Major awards/ECs:
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[li]RSI@MIT[/li][</em>]NIH Individual Grant recipient
[<em>]Stanford CCIS
[</em>]JSHS Regional Finalist
[<em>]National Merit Commended Student
[</em>]AP Scholar
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Subjective:
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[<em>]Essays: Williams admission officer wrote: “Few students have the self-awareness and confidence to do what you’ve done; and, fewer still, to articulate life experience as you did;” MIT educational counselor said very-well crafted and clearly very well-thought out; a wonderful, very moving essay, which reveals a great deal about your growth as a person.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: the top student of my entire career, Hes the type of student every teacher wishes they have in their classroom
[<em>]Counselor Rec: best one written in her career, Youd be crazy not to take him
[</em>]Hook (if any): immigrant (1994); poor, uneducated, but hardworking family on government subsidies (income: 15K); held a job for 3 yrs in high school to pay for tuition; gay; went to Williams Multicultural Weekend in October; completed three different research projects but never bothered to enter them into S/W or INTEL; researched with Harvard Medical School scientists and collaborated with postdocts.[/ul]
Personal:
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[<em>]Location (State or Country): CA
[</em>]Ethnicity & Gender: Vietnamese Male
[<em>]Major strength/weakness: SAT score sucked but research is very persuasive
[</em>]Your thoughts on your decision: I was accepted because I went to RSI[/ul]
Any other comments: Sorry for taking someone else’s spot. Probably won’t end up at JHU.</p>