****Official Class of 2015 RD Results****

wifflewaffle
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:11:23 +0000

Decision: ACCEPTED
Objective

SAT I (breakdown): 680 M, 710 CR, 800W -2190

ACT: N/A

SAT II (if submitted): 720 Literature, 700 U.S. History

Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8

Grades in AP/honors classes (if applicable): A’s and B’s

Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): High school doesn’t rank

AP (place score in parenthesis): U.S. History (4) and English Language (4)

IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A

Senior Year Course Load: AP English IV but all regular classes otherwise

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A

Subjective:


Extracurriculars (place leadership and number of years participated in a certain activity in parenthesis): Yearbook (2 years) and English Honor Society (1 year)
Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service: Brief summer volunteering
Long Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): I’m not sure whether the long one is meant to be the Common App one or the specific Villanova one, but both of mine were long and good so…subject of the Common App essay was my family drama and subject of the Villanova essay was smiling (:
Short Essay (subject - and personal opinions on it): See above. .
Teacher Recommendation (only if you saw it): Didn’t see it.
Counselor Rec (only if you saw it): Didn’t see it, but my counselor liked me and knew a lot about my personal family life.


N/A
Other:


State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant): U.S.
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Feale
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Adopted by my sister and her husband because of mother’s death in 8th grade and alcoholic father. Also first generation.


Strengths: Essays, SAT scores, perseverance?
Weaknesses: Extracurriculars, volunteering, course load, GPA
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m not really sure…I initially applied to Villanova as a safety but then I started researching the school a bit more and realized it might actually be difficult to get into. I was really starting to worry that I wouldn’t get accepted, but voila! Apparently all that worrying was for nothing.