**Decision: Accepted **
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2150 (800 M, 680 CR, 670 W
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II: 800 Math II, 760 Physics
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10 (Out of 800)
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Euro (3), AP Physics (5), AP US (5), AP Lang (5), AP Calc B/C (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: Calc 3, AP Music Theory, Chem H, Spanish 4 AP, English 4 AP, AP Economics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): Student Athlete, Royal Lancer (top 3% GPA)
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Varsity baseball (recruited by the HMC coach), Quiz Bowl captain
Job/Work Experience: Tutoring for a long time
Volunteer/Community service: Sunrise Retirement Home
Summer Activities: Baseball, Tutoring, Taught myself physics, coding, and math
Essays: Common app essay I wrote about an injury I got in baseball that prevented me from doing anything but I chose to try playing from the other side which ended up working. In the HMC specific essays, I incorporated a lot of my baseball experience with engineering, physics, and math. I also mentioned watching lectures of HMC professors.
Teacher Rec #1: Math Analysis teacher- I was probably her favorite student since I participated a lot in class and I also talked to her about math outside of class whenever I had a thought or an observation.
Teacher Rec #2: Spanish 3-H teacher- She really liked me and being a language teacher, she is very articulate and probably wrote a good essay.
Counselor Rec: My counselor liked me a lot. I often went up and talked to him both about school and life in general. Throughout the past 3 years, we’ve created a solid bond together and he knows a lot about me.
Additional Rec:
Interview:
Additional material (abstracts/papers/other):
Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Math
State (if domestic applicant): California
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: Male
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Chinese athlete
Reflection:
Strengths: EC’s (the main reason I got in). Good grades, hard worker
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: My experiences with baseball and how it related to my interest in STEM
Weaknesses: SAT score was pretty weak
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Baseball coach was recruiting me
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Caltech (rejected), MIT (rejected), UCLA (accepted), UCI (accepted), UCSD (accepted)