<p>^Great post and I agree. That is why I want this thread to be posted on by as many Canadians from the class of '15 as possible. A thread with many results from just Canadians is a much better point of comparison that those decision threads that are filled with domestic applicants.</p>
<p>I have posted your stats below beccaz. I hope you don’t mind as you said that others could look them up. I think it would be helpful if they were on here because you do have great stats and great ECs and your rejections surprise me a lot. This goes to show how competitive admissions to top US schools are becoming.</p>
<p>Beccaz’s stats:</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT I (breakdown): 2340 single sitting (800 reading, 790 writing, 750 math)
- SAT II: 750 Literature, 730 Math II
- Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
- Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%
- IB (place score in parenthesis): no exams taken, but predicted 39/45 points
- Senior Year Course Load: IB English, IB Math, IB History, IB Geography, IB Biology, IB French, Writer’s Craft
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<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Playing piano (13 years, currently working on two associate level degrees, one for performance and one for pedagogy), choir (6 years), Arts Council (Head), School Play (Actress and Stage Manager), Cappies (Lead Critic), hot yoga (3 years)
- Job/Work Experience: teaching piano to six students for over three years, Kumon tutor for two years
- Volunteer/Community service: Volunteered at senior home for three years, as data analyst for autism research program…easily 150+ hours
- Summer Activities: Summer@Brown course in psychology
- Essays: Supposedly flawless - one about how allowing myself freedom in learning helped me excel (perfect for Brown and its open curriculum). The supplementary essay was about my struggles with teaching piano to obstinate children, but to try to give them a genuine love for music, like I had. My counselor said that it could get me to any teacher’s college in Canada.
- Teacher Recommendation: didn’t read, but both teachers loved me
- Counselor Rec: Lengthy, but good. She told me that she really tried to highlight my integrity and honesty as well as my academics.
- Additional Rec: I got one from my prof from Summer@Brown. I didn’t know her for very long, but she offered to write it, and I thought it would help to get one from an actual Brown prof…apparently not though.
- Interview: My first interviewer cancelled on me, so I had to pursue the alumni office until they gave me another one. It was a phone interview and only lasted 30 minutes.
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<p>Other[list][<em>] Country (if international applicant): Canada[</em>] School Type: public[<em>] Ethnicity: ASIAN[</em>] Gender: female[li] Income Bracket: 200K +[/li]list]
Reflection</p>
<pre><code>* Strengths: SAT score, good extracurrics and essays
- Weaknesses: being asian and international
- Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I honestly can’t figure out where I went wrong. Neither can my counselor, or anyone else for that matter. I suppose it’s just because there were so many deserving applicants, especially those who were domestic and URMs. It just sucks to get rejected outright from your dream school.
- Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected: Harvard, Dartmouth, Swarthmore, Williams. Accepted: McMasters, Queens, McGill. So it looks like I’ll go to McGill on scholarship.
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<p>General Comments: Well it sucks to be an asian international. And I guess I somehow just wasn’t good enough.</p>