<p>Decision: Accepted SEAS</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] Deferred EA? Did not apply EA, received likely letter RD
[</em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2230 (780 V 750 M 700 W)
[<em>] ACT: 33
[</em>] SAT II: 740 Math IIc, 700 Physics, 800 Spanish
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75, a bit misleading because I had a bad frosh year when I moved here from another country, and basically a 4.0 from end of soph year on.
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):
AP Music Theory 3
AP Physics B 5 (self-studied)
AP Gov 5
AP Spanish Lit 5
AP BC Calc
AP Physics C
AP Lit
AP Chem (self-study)
(my school has a limit of 3 APs per year, and you can’t take any before junior year, so that’s why I don’t have too many)
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
None
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load:
AP BC Calc
AP Literature
AP Physics C
Trimester Courses:
Self-Study in Quantum Physics
Self-Study in Spanish Literature
Self-Study in OpenGL
Self-Study in Programming & Physics
Spanish Cinema
Cold War
Meanings & Myths of War
East Asian Studies
Drawing
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Tech Student of the Year
Lots of Sci Oly medals at regional & state level
Language awards, multiple-time medalist for national french exam
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Sci Oly (Captain)
Amnesty (Treasurer)
Web Page design both in and out of school, for non-profits and independent contracts
Started microcontroller company, do tech & web page design
Founding member of Shakespeare club, treasurer
Research at HSHSP over the summer (best program ever)–sent them my abstract
Debate–qualified for state tournament
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:
Microcontroller company I founded, worked over the summer at law firm
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service:
nothing too big, a bit of Teen Court
[</em>] Summer Activities:
Northwestern Debate Camp, UNT Debate Camp & work, High School Honors Science Program–research at genetics lab
[<em>] Essays:I liked them, they were kind of random, about things like how I like riding my bike and physicists are like kids making snowballs 
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Great I think, I didn’t actually see them but when I got deferred from another school one of my teachers offered to call them up and brag about me and the other one told me they were wrong.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good, I seem to amuse him for some reason.
[</em>] Additional Rec: Physics teacher, didn’t see it but I’ll bet it was great & very enthusiastic, I knew him well.
[<em>] Interview: None
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): TX
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): N/A
[</em>] School Type: Private
[<em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: Middle Class
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: I’ve taken a lot of initiative on my own, self-studied exams, taken 11 tris of ‘tutorials’ which are self-study classes in technology, physics, and spanish, started my own microcontroller company, as well as design web page design contracts independently.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Freshman year GPA
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Taking initiative, doing things because I want to do them and like what I do, not to get into college–getting into college was just a happy byproduct :)[/li][/ul]General Comments: Davis Scholar</p>
