<p>Decision: Rejected after Deferral</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2280 Single Sitting | CR: 760 | M: 730 | W: 790
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 670 M2 | 660 US
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.93
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10 Percentile
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 Eng Lit, 5 Calc AB, 4 Euro, 4 US, 4 Bio, 3 Phys
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Micro Economics, AP Macro Economics, Religious Leadership, AP Calc BC, AP US Gov, AP Comparative Gov, AP English Literature, Advanced Debate
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): I’m 2 dumb
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Debate (2nd Senior Team), STEM Club, Media Development Club (Founder), Ambassadors Club,
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Worked for Distractify.com
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Tutor
[<em>] Summer Activities: Debate Camp three years in a row, w00t w00t
[</em>] Essays: Tend to overestimate writing skills, so I tried to underrate my writings here. Hopefully it evened out lol
Work Experience: About Distractify 7/10
Seven Inquiries: 8.5/10
Intellectual Vitality: Debate 9/10 (Used it like 5 times)
Letter to Roommate: Me Being Weird 7/10
What matters: Existence 9/10 (Honestly think it’s closer to 10/10)
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: 9 (Said I was the best of my family and my brother went to Stanford)
[</em>] Counselor Rec: 9 (Argued with a college over the phone about how my math grade only dropped because I was sick for 3 weeks.)
[<em>] Teach Recommendation 2: 8 (She used to love me. We had a falling out. She tried to apologize by writing the letter.)
[</em>] Interview: N/A
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Naw
[</em>] Intended Major: Electrical Engineering
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): California
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): N/A
[<em>] School Type: Private (1000 students)
[</em>] Ethnicity: African American yo
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 200k+
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Kinda Legacy (Brother went there)
[/ul]Reflection[list]
[</em>] Strengths: High SAT, Great Writer, Great Class Loads, Good Recs
[<em>] Weaknesses: No national awards, relatively low subject test, below average ECs
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: See weaknesses, besides doing REA I didn’t really show interest. I was so confident that I was going before I got deferred, but after I kinda knew I wasn’t going to make it. That deferral pool left me in the dust. They usually accept one from my school, not this year I guess.
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected: Olin, MIT, Yale-NUS, and UC Berkeley. Waitlisted: University of Michigan. Accepted: UC Merced, Wake Forest, UCLA, WUSTL, Columbia, Yale, and Harvard.</p>[/li]
<p>General Comments: Stanford was my dream school since eighth grade. It was less so after I got deferred, but that was mostly out of spite. I got a likely letter from Columbia, and I started to question why it had been my favorite school in the first place. I came up with surprisingly few reasons. Still it would have been slim chances that I would deny it if I got accepted, so getting rejected did suck. I’m at a place where I don’t want to see the word Stanford for another 3 months haha. There is good news in the rejection. I can probably do a better objective analysis of what college is right for me. Although this post is really depressing, I am very happy that I got accepted to some good schools, I even wrote Stanford’s dean a non-sarcastic thank you email haha. I hope everyone enjoys whatever institution they received admittance to. Excluding UMich peeps, you suck for waitlisting me, I only logged into withdraw my damn application. Haha jk good luck everyone!</p>