<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]</p>
<p>[<em>] SAT I (Superscore breakdown): Math 790 Critical Reading 750 Writing 800 (9 E) ** 2340**
[li] SAT I (Best Single breakdown): Math 790 Critical Reading 750 Writing 720 (11 E) ** 2260**[/li][li] SAT II: Math II 800 Physics 790 Biology M 780[/li][li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0[/li][</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3rd out of 548… so top .5%?
[li] AP (place score in parenthesis): [/li]Biology 5
World History 5
Calcu BC 5
Physics B 5
Environmental Sci 5
Macro econ 5 and AP Micro Econ 5
English Language 5</p>
<p>[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): none
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load:
- English 110/111
- Advanced Engineering Physics
- ROP FIRST Robotics
- Political Science 101 (city college)
- Multi-variable Calculus (MATH 200)
- IB Economics HL
-Boys Tennis</p>
<p>[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National AP Scholar, National Merit Finalist, Regional Science Bowl Winner and Nat’l Qualifier (2x years), Economics Challenge State Champ. And 2nd in Western Regionals, FIRST Robotics Regional Finalist in San Diego and Winner at Los Angeles (Motorla Quality Award and Engineering Inspiration Award), and Towbes Honors Scholar ($7500 merit scholarship)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Science Bowl, Economics Team, Boys Tennis, FIRST Robotics, Math Club, and Piano achievement programs.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Paid Internship at UCSB for Economics and Engineering
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Cottage Hospital Volunteer (240+ hours)
[</em>] Summer Activities: Look at “Job/Work Experience”
[<em>] Essays: Wrote as passionately but genuinely as I possibly could
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Only saw one and it was full of praise
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Never read it. But I think it was good considering my counselor is retiring and says I am one of her all time best.
[</em>] Additional Rec: nope, not that cool
[li] Interview: Great! The guy was more stoic than I was and he was almost late to pick up his kids because we were talking for so long.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): California
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): US
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Chinese (Asian Permanent Resident)
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 140k + (With assets about 700k which really killed any chance for FinAid)
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Absolutely NONE. Being Asian sucks</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Rank, GPA, Awards
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT scores, trying to stand out enough on essays
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think my SAT scores were a tad too low for an Asian male. Maybe my senior course load could have been more rigorous? I am not really sure where to pin point. It was probably my SAT scores
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: Caltech, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, and UCSB.
Waitlisted: Princeton, Harvard, UPenn, Cornell, Stanford
Rejected: MIT
[/ul]General Comments:
I came up short in a lot of places, but I tried my best in high school so it’s all good. Caltech here I come!</p>