<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<pre><code>SAT I (breakdown): didn’t take
ACT: 35 (35 E, 36 M, 33 R, 36 S)
SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chem
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Music Theory (5), APUSH (5), AP Micro (5), AP Calc BC (5), AP Stats (4), AP Lang (4), AP CS (5), AP Comp Gov (5), AP Chem (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): none
Senior Year Course Load: Multivariable Calc, AP Lit, AP Bio, Spanish 5, AP Physics, AP Gov, AP Macro, Psychology
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None
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<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 4 years on the boys’ high school swim and dive team, senior year NHS
Job/Work Experience: Kumon over the last summer, recreational soccer referee since freshman year
Volunteer/Community service: volunteer at local library since sophomore year
Summer Activities: Swimming and programming
Essays: In my opinion, really, really good. It’d make for some great sample essays in the typical “How to Write A College Essay” book. Too bad they apparently weren’t persuasive enough. I thought the essays had more weight than that.
Teacher Recommendation: I knew one of my recommending teachers since sophomore year and met the other at the end of junior year. Haven’t seen the rec letters.
Counselor Rec: Haven’t seen the counselor rec
Additional Rec: None
Interview: The interview went well. The interviewer was an engineering major and we really “clicked” on a lot of topics. It couldn’t have gone better.
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<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>State (if domestic applicant): MN
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public school that graduates ~800 per year
Race(s) (White, AA, AI/AN, Asian, NH/PI): Asian
Hispanic (Y/N): N
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: ~200K
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
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<p>Reflection</p>
<pre><code>Strengths: Objective stats, Essays
Weaknesses: Lack of leadership positions, typical Asian applicant
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I wasn’t impressive enough.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to U Minnesota, U Wisconsin, U Illinois, UCLA, USC; Waitlisted at CMU (SCS); Rejected from Duke, Harvard, MIT (deferred EA), Princeton, Berkeley, UChicago (deferred EA), UPenn
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<p>General Comments: College admissions does NOT favor the late-bloomers. (I might write up a thread about this.) I was a freakin’ introvert freshman and sophomore years and neglected to try new things. The result? The best I could be was a boring applicant with great test scores. I wish I could travel back in time and tell myself to snap out of my introverted shell and do stuff like get elected to the student council or join speech and debate, but now I only have the future to look forward to. Anyways, congrats to those admitted.</p>