<p>This is what I feel when I’m reading this thread.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2400 (800,800,800)
[</em>] ACT: 36
[<em>] SAT II: 800 (Math I), 800 (Chemistry), 800 (Lit)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1 out of 420000000
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 34 (too lazy to write them all out) all 5s
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): perfect score on all of them
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Spanish, AP French, AP German, AP Calculus BC, AP Calculus AB, AP Physics C (E&M), AP Physics C (Mech), AP Physics B, AP English Lit, AP English Lang, AP Gym
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 1st at IMO, 1st at ISEF (Bioengineering), 1st at International Dodge Poetry Festival, 1st Mandelbrot Individual, 1st ARML individual, 1st IChO, 1st IBO, 1st ICO, 1st IAO, won 10,000$ on Jeopardy, 1st in international violin competition @ Russia
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Curing Cancer at Sloan-Kettering, Science Olympiad, Math Team, English Team, Spanish Team, Football Team, Quizbowl, Model U.N., Forensics (captain of all of the above), Chamber Orchestra, Elite Orchestra
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Works as researcher at Sloan-Kettering, interned at Goldman Sachs (manager said I was the most impressive intern that ever existed)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: volunteered >10000000000008.3 hours building houses for African children, volunteered >13828238724.11 hours tutoring in complex calculus and life, volunteered >138230243 EE 99 seving food at local soup kitchen
[<em>] Summer Activities: Researched in curing cancer (and discovered cure!), TASP, Simons Program, RSI, Math Camp, Physics Camp, Chem Camp, Bio Camp, and FBLA nationals (1st in Economics)
[</em>] Essays: 10/10: everyone who read it burst into tears. I talked about overcoming homelessness and racism - I think my humility also shone through
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: 10/10: teacher literally groveled at my feet to write it for me
[</em>] Counselor Rec: 10/10: amazing
[<em>] Additional Rec: 10/10: also amazing. see “teacher recommendation” except for research mentor
[</em>] Interview: 10/10: interviewer started bursting into tears in the middle
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type: huge and very competitive
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: $4000 (from my part time job)
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, first generation college, poverty, recruited for football
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: awards, extracurriculars, scores, humility and personality, outer appearance
[<em>] Weaknesses: a little too nice of a person
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: not good enough
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: nowhere :([/li][/ul]General Comments:</p>