<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 780 Math 730 Writing 680 Reading
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: 790 Math II 770 Spanish
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Not sure how the 4.0 system. I get B+'s and A-'s in high honors classes at my 1000-something high school
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top Decile (we don’t do rankings besides that), One of Forty or Less to Only Take High Honors Classes (<4% of the school)
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):
AP Spanish (5)
AP Calculus AB (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load:
AP Economics (Macro + Micro)
AP Physics C
AP Statistics
AP Great Books (LitComp)
Music Theory 2 High Honors
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
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Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Play/Compose Music, Bell Choir, Youth Ministry (I’m an atheist, but the head of it), Korean Club, Photo Club, Ceramics
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Worked at a candy store, dog walker
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Tutor for Chicago Public School kids, Free Math Tutor
[<em>] Summer Activities: Guatemala for 1 Month, Biology Summer School, US History Summer School
[</em>] Essays: Best they’ve ever been
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I’d assume pretty good ones. My Spanish teacher from Spain is sort of a wildcard because he isn’t used to the American system
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Pretty impersonal. I go to a school of 1000 kids per class. That being said, I stood out for him because I lived in Spain
[<em>] Additional Rec: Really good. I had the leader of the four trips I made to a Guatemalan orphanage during Spring Break write my rec.
[</em>] Interview: It went pretty well. We were both pretty delightfully awkward…haha
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Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): IL
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type: Public, 1000-something students
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Girl
[</em>] Income Bracket: No financial aid
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/ul] Studied abroad, sister currently attending
Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Girl Engineer, Spent Junior Year in Spain With A Host Family, Sister Currently Attending (Who Knows If It Actually Helps)
[<em>] Weaknesses: GPA
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred: Quite honestly, my GPA did not look very impressive in comparison to other people. They only accepted one ED applicant out of 20 that wasn’t an athlete.
[li] Where else were you accepted/deferred:[/ul] None[/li]General Comments:
Quite honestly, I was pretty bummed because I definitely “stood out” from my peers at school. While my GPA was rather low for what they regularly accept, the fact that I am a white girl that loves Math and Physics seemed like a big bonus. Also- I attended an American school in Spain for my Junior year, and learned to speak Spanish proficiently. The school taught at honors level pace. Four of my classes were in Spanish (Spanish History, Art History, Advanced Spanish Language AP, and Political science) and two were in English (Calc, English-lit) However, I must not complain. A GPA is a measure of someone’s hard work during two years of their high school career, and that’s undeniable.</p>
<p>And they only took one girl who got in without athletics involved. She has a 3.95 GPA. Beyond that she seems like a very talented writer.</p>