<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2190 (690 CR, 760 M, 740 W)
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 770 US History, 720 Math 2, 610 Lit (Not reported)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): My school doesn’t rank, but probably top 10 percent
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): US History (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Economics (Macro and Micro), AP Art History, AP Statistics, English 12 Honors, Film and American Culture, International and Creative Foods, Gym/Health
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): No major Awards
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): School District Steering Committee (Student Representative, one of four students in entire high school, 11-12); Teen intern at Radical Parenting (parenting blog from teenage perspective, 10-12); Principal’s Advisory Council (Student Representative, 11-12); REBEL (Reaching Everyone By Exposing Lies, anti-smoking advocacy group, 9); Gesher LeKesher (Jewish Peer Leaders Group, 12); PawPrint (school newspaper, 10-11)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None (Unless Radical Parenting internship counts as work experience)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: NHS (11-12), Interact Club (10-12); Jewish Community Youth Foundation (Jewish philanthropy organization for teens, 8-12; Youth Advisory Board member 10-12)
[<em>] Summer Activities: Summer college programs at UMass Amherst (2009, not for credit), Michigan (2010, not for credit), and Cornell (2011, for credit)
[</em>] Essays: Wrote about Principal’s Advisory Council for short essay. Long essay was about negative experience at a sleep away camp and how the summer programs I attended enabled me to shed away negative attributes; Why NU essay was well-written, but maybe generic (other concerns listed under “Why you were rejected”)
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: 11th grade English Honors teacher, and Calculus teacher (11th grade); Both were probably positive and well written, yet my English Honors teacher writes numerous recommendations
[</em>] Counselor Rec: My guidance counselor and I are very close, so it was likely an exuberant letter
[<em>] Additional Rec: Vice Principal of my school (he enabled me to get involved in many of my ECs), as well as the head of the charity that runs Jewish Community Youth Foundation; Both of them amazing, sentimental, and pretty well-written
[</em>] Interview: None
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<p>Other[ul]
[<em>]Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[</em>]Intended Major: Economics or Psychology
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):NJ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public, very competitive
[</em>] Ethnicity:White (Jewish)
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>]Income Bracket: $250K+
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None, unless being from NJ is an anomaly[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: ECs, Quantitative stats were in range
[</em>] Weaknesses: Essays, overall profile, and possibly the other schools I applied to
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: In my essay, I mentioned how much I loved small classes, and used the summer program at Cornell as an example. Problem is, I actually used the name “Cornell.” Even in a neutral manner, this may have hindered me exponentially
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Pittsburgh, Minnesota (Twin-Cities), UMass Amherst (all honors, $40K from Pitt and UMass, $37K from Minnesota); Deferred (and still waiting): Cornell (ED), Michigan; Also waiting on: Columbia, UPenn, Stanford, NYU
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<p>General Comments: This was my first rejection and it was quite sobering after my three acceptances. However, because NU did not correspond with me incessantly, I took the rejection much lighter than I was anticipating (out of sight, out of mind, perhaps?). Congrats to all who were accepted and best of luck in your future endeavors! =)</p>