<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:
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[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 780 CR, 770 M, 750 W (2300 total, one sitting)
[</em>] ACT: None
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): 790 US History, 800 Korean, 740 Biology E
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.57 W, 3.85 UW
[<em>] Grades in AP/IB/honors classes (if applicable): Almost all A’s
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 Euro, 5 APUSH, 5 English Language, 4 CompSci A
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP Econ, AP US Govt, AP Calc AB, AP Biology, AP Spanish, Internship, School Newspaper
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended, President’s Volunteer Service Award, Scholastic Gold Key award for the arts. They aren’t really USAMO-level, but they are national level. I did receive a bunch of school-level subject awards.
[/ul]Subjective:
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[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership and number of years participated in a certain activity in parenthesis): Studio Art (4 years, huge time commitment), Art Club (4 years, President), Amnesty Int’l (4 years), MUN (2 years, no position but placed in regional conferences), School Newspaper Cartoonist, some piano
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Internship at a local college’s department of psychology
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Lots of tutoring children and peer language tutoring, mural painting, etc. etc.
[</em>] EC short answer (subject and personal opinions on it): It was alright. About taking art classes at a local college. A bit bland, but then again there isn’t much room to elaborate.
[<em>] General Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): Loved it, personally! It was about my love for foreign languages. I wrote it in a third person POV, kind of like a news article.
[</em>] Second Essay (subject - and personal opinions on it): I can’t remember, but it was interesting as well. Again, unconventional structure.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation (only if you saw it): N/A
[</em>] Counselor Rec (only if you saw it): N/A
[<em>] Additional Rec (only if you saw it): N/A
[</em>] Interview: Had none.
[/ul]Other
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[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public magnet
[</em>] Ethnicity: Korean
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): None
[/ul]Reflection
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[<em>] Strengths: Grades (I started off with quite a few B’s, but I pulled my act together and got straight A’s starting junior year), cartooning (not simply comics, but actual editorial cartoons), having a passion for different, eclectic languages
[</em>] Weaknesses: Grades (the fact that I started off with quite a few B’s), no major awards, relatively normal extracurrics, the list goes on.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Maybe because I attended CTY several times when I was younger? That might have given me a boost.
[</em>] Other Decisions: Accepted: UCLA, UC Berkeley, UCSD, Boston Uni, Carnegie Mellon (w/ invitation to SHS and QSSS), NYU WL: Georgetown SFS, Columbia (!!!), Boston College, Northwestern Rejected: most of the Ivies that I applied to, hehehe!
[li] Enrolling?: Most likely! I’m still battling it out between JHU and UCLA for personal, family and geographic reasons, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be attending JHU.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]**General Comments:<a href=“Some%20information%20was%20withheld%20in%20the%20subjective%20section%20because%20it%20would%20be%20too%20identifying%20if%20any%20of%20my%20classmates%20happened%20to%20be%20on%20here.%20But%20nothing%20major,%20I%20promise!”>/b</a></p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone who got accepted! Truly, I’m so excited for each and every one of you! For those of you who were rejected, please don’t feel down. I know it’s disheartening right now, but know that all the colleges that accepted you did so because they felt they had something to offer you, and vice versa. And remember, college isn’t the end of life. You have many more opportunities to look forward to! For those of you that are waitlisted, I wish you the best of luck! :)</p>