OFFICIAL Bowdoin College 2014 DECISION THREAD

xcrunner0401
Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:52:06 +0000

Decision: Accepted

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): i really have no idea, but i think i only got 1800 or so
[] ACT: 28
[] SAT II: 710 for US1 and 680 for BioM
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8 weighted 4.633
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 15, top 5%
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): Stats (3), Bio (5), USHistory (4)
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): none
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc, AP Lit, AP World, Independent Study: Psychology, Yearbook, Chorus, Europe in the Modern Age
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Awards? I don’t do awards i guess.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): XC, Both Winter and Spring Track (Captain), Actor
[] Job/Work Experience: Coldstone since last year, and Gypsy Farmhouse
[] Volunteer/Community service: Uh, Relay for Life
[] Summer Activities: A lot of running, reading time, and family time
[] Essays: I wrote about my father not accepting me for who i am and how I was made fun of by my track coach because I was gay. But it wasn’t a sad story because it was a flashback and I wrote “I am gay” as my last sentence. It was a neat little piece. If you want you can ask me if you can read it
[] Teacher Recommendation: one of my teachers said that if she just met me outside of high school, she would think i’m already a college student.
[] Counselor Rec: talked about my difficulties coming to america when i was 12 and had to be placed in ESL in 8th grade and how hard it is transitioning.
[] Additional Rec: none, i don’t think
[] Interview: my interview went awesome. it lasted for an hour, and it felt like i was talking to a friend.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[] Intended Major: psychology and english/theater
[] State (if domestic applicant): Dirty Jerz
[] Country (if international applicant):
[] School Type: Public
[] Ethnicity: Asian
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: Lower-Middle Class
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation, gay, immigrant in a way, my personality
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: My personality and what I can bring to the table
[] Weaknesses: My numbers
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I still have no idea
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I did ED II [/li][/ul]General Comments:
First: I didn’t send in my numbers because I didn’t want to be that student who worries about number so much. I am a student going to a college not a number they’re going to put in their statistic book. To be honest, I feel like people should worry about how they can be unique instead of worrying about their GPA or whatnot. I also can’t say that I’m lucky i got through ED II because they only accepted 36 with that process. So I guess I am special. :)