<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>(was SCEA Deferred)</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: Nope!
[</em>] SAT I (by section): M 730, CR 760, W, 800 (Combined: 2290)
[<em>] SAT IIs: Biology 780, Math IIC 760, Literature 730, World History 650
[</em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.98
[<em>] Rank: School doesn’t release rankings, I’d be about 12/200 though
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] APs (including this year’s): Calc BC
[</em>] IBs (including this year’s): A1 English HL, Mandarin B HL, Economics HL, History HL, Biology SL, Music SL
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload:The toughest in the school. Bar none.
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 4
[<em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): Nat’l Merit Scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: first cellist for Symphony Orchestra, founding member of school’s Forensics Team, Section Editor for school paper, jayvee basketball, lead singer for a student rock band, Chair for a Habitat for Humanity committee
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): Common App essay wrote about friendships and how schoolwork clashes with it (this one was brilliant, everybody I showed it to was greatly moved); Roommate essay was about my experience with my first journalism assignment and how that ties in with my curiosity by nature; Intellectual essay was about my sister’s struggles with her amputated leg and how that has led me to question religion; Why Stanford was an allegory using Queen and Freddie Mercury that worked quite well I thought
[<em>] Teacher Recs: 3 rec’s, all brilliant. Might have been overkill for three, but Stanford counted Econ and History as Social Studies and I really wanted both of my teachers to write. So I added my English teacher as well, for that “second subject.”
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Should’ve been great, she knows my family and my sister very well, me not as much but still quite well
[<em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): none!
[</em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): and here is where I fail.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Beijing
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Private, exclusive, academically intense school
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: umm…top. lol. No financial aid needed for me.
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): again, fail.
[<em>] Strengths: Writing. Look, I hate to toot my own horn, but my essays I think were really amazing.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Lack of hook. I’m just a regular guy, I think… I don’t have some of the outstanding book-being-published, cured-cancer qualities that a lot of the acceptances had.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: See weakness.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Congratulations to everyone who got accepted OR waitlisted. You are the 15%, the top in the world as far as the Class of 2012 goes. I hope you guys have a blast at Palo Alto… As for me, I’ve gotten into Northwestern, Claremont McKenna, and Swarthmore so far, and waitlisted at Amherst. Still waiting on the 31st of March, which is pretty much doomsday (UPenn, Tufts, Columbia). Best of luck to everyone.</p>