<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Major Applied To: Political Science
[</em>] Fee Waiver Used?: Nyet
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 800 CR, 710 M, 800 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 790 Lit, 760 US History, 680 Physics
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.8something weighted, 3.4something uw
[</em>] Rank: 82/633 - top 12% (pulled up to top 10% w/ midyear report card)
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] APs (including this year’s): AP European History (5), AP Physics B (2), AP English Language (5), AP US History (5), AP Calculus AB (4), and this year AP Statistics, US Government, Macroeconomics, and English Literature
[<em>] IBs (including this year’s: N/A
[</em>] Senior Yr Courseload: AP Stat, Honors Bio, AP English Lit, AP Macro/AP US Gov, Honors Literary Analysis, Journalism 2
[<em>] Number of Apps from Your School: No idea
[</em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar of some sort, CSF, departmental English awards, National Vocabulary Championship Finalist, California Arts Scholar, semi-finalist to State Board of Education, etc.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Editor-in-chief of school’s paper and literary magazine, officer in JSA, staff writer for teen magazine, published in several papers and anthologies, creative writing summer program, work for state assemblyman, violinist in orchestra
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:Tour guide for museum
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): I picked my own question and wrote about the process of picking an essay question. Totally meta and esoteric, and despite evidence to the contrary I still love it. Didn’t show it to any teachers, though.
[</em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): Published writer
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: California
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public magnet, fairly competitive (I think something like a quarter of our class were NMFs)
[<em>] Ethnicity: White (Jewish)
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: Middle class
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): see above
[<em>] Strengths: SAT, essays, extra-curriculars
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA, rank
[li] Why you think you were accepted/wait listed/denied: GPA, rank, no interview[/li][/ul]Other Factors: Who knows?
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I’m a little sad - I love the intellectuality of the school and I really thought I had a shot at getting in. But I got accepted at Cal and UCLA today as well, so I guess I can’t complain too much. Congratulations to those who were accepted!</p>