<p>**Decision: Accepted to (STEINHARDT) **</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 690 CR/710 W/640 M
[</em>] ACT (breakdown): Ugh I don’t remember I got a 30 overall, sent my SAT to NYU.
[<em>] SAT II: didn’t take it!
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.2
[<em>] Weighted GPA (if available): 3.4
[</em>] Rank/percentile (if available): n/a
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Human (4), AP Lit (5), AP Psych (4)
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: College Algebra, College Trigonometry, AP Studio Art, AP U.S. Government, Newspaper, AP Lang and Comp, AP Biology
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Lettered all years in speech and debate, top state qualifier in speech and debate all years. </p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Newspaper (Editor-In-Chief), Speech and Debate (Team Captain), National Art Honor Society, organized a hygeine drive, shadowed a local senator, “water ambassador” and educator for my county’s water resource education program, Peer Mentor/Tutor, Link Crew Leader. Yeah I had a lot.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Internship with a top Denver photography studio, work as a waitress part time 10-15 hrs a week.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: The hygeine drive, water ambassador thing, peer mentoring and tutoring and link crew are all community service oriented.
[</em>] Summer Activities: No such thing. Well, I worked full time basically.
[<em>] Essays: They were basically the </em><em>. Writing is my strongest subject. I think they really helped me, honestly. Very unique.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: From my newspaper adviser who has known me all four years of high school, and actually failed me first semester my freshman year in English I Honors. I’m now his editor-in-chief. He saw me grow. It was very personal and heartfelt.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Just dreadful. He spent probably twenty minutes on it. He doesn’t know me at all. It was six or so sentences long. I had to revise it for him. Disastrous. Didn’t mention anything that I hadn’t already.
[</em>] Additional Rec: From my AP Government and former English II Honors teacher. Glowing!</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes. “Too rich”, according to FAFSA.
[</em>] Intended Major: Public Health
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Colorado
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): n/a
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nada. Although I did play off of the idea that I was born at NYU Tisch hospital… </p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: My level of involvement, SAT scores, essays, teacher recommendations.
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think it was a combination of a lot of things. First semester of 9th grade I did terribly. 2.28 GPA. Second semester I got a 3.875, continued to do well up until second semester of 11th grade when I got sick again. My health was an extenuating circumstance, and I struggled a lot with my learning disability (ADHD) but I challenged myself all throughout high school with a lot of AP work. My GPA isn’t really typical of a kid with my level of involvement. My essays were well written and unique. I showed serious passion and focus. I think the ad com was able to look past the numbers, and see through every other aspect of my application that I am a strong student and critical thinker.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: NYU was my first letter! One for one!</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments: Congrats to all. For those who didn’t get a congratulations today, you have something good in store waiting for you too. For those reading this that are applying next fall, don’t scare yourself away from applying because you think it’s too much of a reach, or you won’t be able to afford it. Look at my stats. They saw my mid-year report too, and first semester of senior year went awfully for me. D in AP Bio. I applied to a science program. Anything can happen. You just have to try, put yourself out there, and take a risk. The worst thing is getting rejected. And come May 1st it won’t even matter.</p>