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

masports12
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:35:17 +0000

Decision: Accepted
School applied to: VSB
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):670 M, 670 CR, 710 W (2050 total)
ACT: None
SAT II: 710 US, 690 Spanish
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.81 (4.08 W)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5-10%
AP (place score in parenthesis):5 Euro, 5 US
IB (place score in parenthesis):None
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP Lang, AP Gov, AP Stat, Honors Italian, US Issues
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 5th on state Italian exam

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Italian Club(Historian), Spanish Club, Italian Honor Society, NHS, varsity basketball, freshman baseball
Job/Work Experience: summer ccd camp teacher’s aide, caddie
Volunteer/Community service: soup kitchen, sandwich group, church lector, peer minister
Summer Activities:caddying, basketball
Essays: I kind of rushed the common app one, but it still cmae out pretty good. It was about my perseverance to play varsity basketball after I started on JV. Work experience one was also pretty good about how I worked my way up the caddying hierarchy. I thought my Villanova essay was really good, talked about the importance of family as it related to the research of my own family tree.
Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t see them, one was probably great from my Italian teacher for two years and the other good from my AP US teacher
Counselor Rec: Generic
Additional Rec: None
Interview: None

Other
State (if domestic applicant): NJ
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public(1800 kids)
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: High
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Legacy
Reflection
Strengths: strong GPA, tough course load at respected HS, good EC’s, well-rounded
Weaknesses: SAT scores, lack of diversity, no demonstrated interest in business, B’s in math classes
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I guess they just saw consistent performance through all four years. I had a tough courseload throughout high school, especially senior year.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: BC, Fairfield(Magis Scholarship), TCNJ, UMich(still waiting to hear from Ross), Richmond
Waitlist: Lehigh???
Rejected: Notre Dame(early action) :(

General Comments:
I was accepted early action, but just felt like contributing. I still have to wait to weigh all of my scholarship options from other schools becuase I won’t be getting any financial aid anywhere. It will probably come down to BC, Villanova, and Fairfield because UMich is too far and I haven’t been accepted to the business school yet. Villanova has a better business school and is closer to home, but BC has been my top choice all along. I sat in on a Villanova class on my third visit there and enjoyed it, but will have to visit BC again and Fairfield for the first time in order to make a final decision. Tough decision for sure and good luck to everyone else in finding the right school.