<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2330 (800CR, 790W, 740M)
[</em>] SAT II: 800 Chinese, 760 Math II
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.83
[</em>] Weighted GPA: 4.4
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): our school doesn’t rank
[</em>] AP (place score in parentheses): World History (5), Calc BC (4), Chinese (5), Spanish (3), Studio Art 2-D (5), Physics B (3), US History (4), English Language (5)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP Psych, AP Euro, AP Econ/Gov, Musical Theater, Dance Team
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
national merit semi-finalist
community service award from ACCEF
featured in 2009 edition Who’s Who[/ul]</p>
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses):
law club (founder and president)
MUN (president)
service club for kids in China (vice president)
service club for retirement center (founder and president)
teen court (attorney and trainer)
kendo (vice captain)
nhs (executive member)
shss
csf (7 semesters - all of my high school years)
dance team
theater club (webmistress, treasurer)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:
editor for a electric physics textbook
jamba juice
intern for political campaign (for congress, also helped with Obama campaign)
tutor
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service:
representing kids who no longer want to be labeled as “juvenile delinquents” in court cases
library volunteering
fundraising for impoverished kids in China
[</em>] Summer Activities:
work
volunteering
organizing activities for fundraising
filming youtube videos
[/ul]</p>
<p>Writing (Rate Quality on 1-10 Scale; 10 as Best):[ul]
[<em>] Essays (Include Subjects):[list]
[li] Common App Main: wrote about the pain of abortion, laws, and the effects on my life[/li][</em>] EC Short Answer: theater, which I had done for all of my high school years now
[<em>] Intellectual Vitality: about how I failed a case for my client, but was open to try again
[</em>] Roommate: talking about my traditional family and how China and Japan are national enemies, but I wanted to break out of such close-minded thinking and invited my roommate to try out for Taiko with me
[<em>] Why Stanford: Stanford is a place my grandmother could never have dreamed of attending, a place my mother could never have attended, and a place both of them could never have planned for me to attend.<br>
[</em>] Other:[/ul]
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation #1: my theater teacher, she thinks I’m a theatrical genius, so I hope it’s good?
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: US History teacher and MUN advisor
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I’m not sure because our school is so big, so I don’t really know the counselor, but it seems that she knows me pretty well
[</em>] Additional Rec:N/A
[<em>] Interview: N/A
[</em>] Art Supplement:N/A[/list]</p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: October 27
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): California
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Income Bracket: Lower Middle Class
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first generation immigrant?
[/ul]</p>
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Extracurriculars
[</em>] Weaknesses: I’ve never seen my letters of rec
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I’m not sure. Maybe just a tad lacking in everything?
[</em>] What would you have done differently?: Write better essays I guess, and study more?
[/ul]</p>
<p>General Comments:
This really made my month depressing. =[
But congrats to those who made it in.
I wonder if the rejection letter is customized? Because mine talks bout my academic achievements and community involvements, and it’s like… what if I wasn’t?</p>