Official Grinnell Class of 2020 Admissions Decision Thread!!

NicolasCageAf
Sun, 20 Mar 2016 10:56:26 +0000

**Decision: Rejected **

Objective:[ul]

[]SAT I and/or ACT (breakdown): 2260 (800 CR, 760 M, 700 W)
[]SAT II (place score in parentheses): 2400 (chem, math 2, bio e)
[]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): NA
[]Rank/Percentile: NA
[]AP (place score in parentheses): NA
[]IB (place score in parentheses): NA
[]Senior Year Course Load: NA
[]Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NA

[/ul]Subjective:[ul]

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses):
[]Job/Work Experience: Summer internship with doctor
[]Volunteer/Community Service: a couple of hundred hours (hospital volunteer + rotary)
[]Summer Activities: 150+ hours shadowing a doc (he even gave me a rec)
[]Essays: Common app was good 8/10, Didnt do supplement
[]Teacher Recommendations: average to good prolly 7/10
[]Counselor Rec: didn’t know her, so probably very generic
[]Additional Rec: Doctor wrote a really good rec 8.5/10
[]Interview: NA

[/ul]Other:[ul]
[]Applied for Financial Aid? Nope
[]Projected Concentration: I don’t know!
[]State/Country: International
[]School Type: Private
[]Ethnicity: B
[]Gender: M
[]Income Bracket: NA
[]Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

[/ul]Reflection:[list]
[]Strengths: Def SAT scores, transcripts and ECs
[]Weaknesses: Didn’t demonstrate interest, or write the optional supplement. My mid terms were really bad and they were sent (2Cs) and my ECs were not that unique compared to some other applicants.
[]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: idk
[]Where else you are applying or have already applied: Some ivies and random colleges. Already got into Tulane (32k/y merit, UCSD
Rejected: Northwestern, Johns Hopkins