<p>Decision: Waitlisted </p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t send.
[</em>] ACT (breakdown): 35 (36M, 34S, 34E, 34R, 12 essay)
[<em>] SAT II (place score in parentheses): 800 (Math II), 740 (Chemistry)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0. Weighted: 4.59
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): NA
[</em>] AP (place score in parentheses): Chemistry (4), U.S. Gov (self study 4), English Language (self study 4), Spanish Lang (4), Biology (3)
[<em>] IB (place score in parentheses):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 5 APs, 1 Honors, and 1 elective
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, National Merit Commended, some other local awards.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): President of National Honor Society, President of Tutoring Club, President of Cultural Club, Founder/President of Technology Club, Work at consulting firm, research at university lab and published abstracts, section leader of section in band, tennis team, and a lot more.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: I have had 3 jobs. 1 or 2 pretty unique ones.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community Service: Listed above.
[<em>] Summer Activities: Research internships, work, volunteering, and intern at NPR.
[</em>] Essays: Common app essay: 9.5. Stanford supplement: 9.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendations: English teacher of two years: 10. AP science teacher: 9.5
[</em>] Counselor Rec: probably better than any other recs she wrote, so in relation to other applicants from my school, probably 10. But, since it’s a public school, the rec probably doesn’t compare to some of the ones that private school counselors write.
[<em>] Additional Rec: from research mentor, he doesn’t really know how to write a rec, but besides that: 10.
[</em>] Interview:
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: below 50k.
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Legacy, Dad got PhD from there.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: GPA, ACT, extracurriculars, Common app essay.
[<em>] Weaknesses: AP scores, awards.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: [li] Where else you are applying or have already applied: Accepted: Columbia, Cornell, Berkeley, UCLA, WashU, and Rice. Waitlisted: Northwestern, and Stanford. Rejected: Yale, Penn, Duke, Harvard, and Princeton. [/li][/ul]General Comments/Advice/Hindsight:
Everyone has a chance, just apply to see what happens. For the ivies, make sure you spread yourself and do not apply to just a few schools, because they are so random. Kinda annoyed that the legacy didn’t get me in because I thought that I was a competitive applicant but I guess that being legacy does not actually help that much.</p>