<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>This is why you shouldnt procrastinate on your apps :/</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2390 (Lit 800, Math 790, CR 800)
[</em>] ACT: 33, but didnt send it
[<em>] SAT II: Lit 720, Math II 770, US Hist. 770
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 4.9
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): At least top 5%
[<em>] AP (place score in parentheses): Bio 4, Lang 5, Calc BC 5, World 5, Psych 5, US Hist. 4, others TBD
[</em>] IB (place score in parentheses): n/a
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Academy Lit, AP Academy Chinese, Global Studies, Orchestra, AP Physics c, honors Engineering Physics, Advanced Topics (Calculus 3), Newspaper Staff, Gym
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):[/ul] Bausch & Lomb Science Award and Scholarship, NCTE Writing Award, National Merit Scholar</p>
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): nothing special
Environmental Club (board member/secretary), Orchestra, JV Badminton, Cosmic Ray research, Peer Tutoring, Copy Editor for Newspaper
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Kumon tutor7 hours/week, 52 weeks/year
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteering at local forest preserve and local prairie preserve
[</em>] Summer Activities:[/ul] traveling to china, summer school, work</p>
<p>Writing (Rate Quality on 1-10 Scale; 10 as Best):[ul]
[<em>] Essays (Include Subjects):[list]
[li] Common App Main: I did topic of your choice and wrote a detailed essay on my nerdiness. Not unbelievably profound, but fairly down to earth and cute. (9)[/li][</em>] EC Short Answer: About my involvement in and passion for my schools environmental club. (9)
[<em>] Intellectual Vitality: absolute FAIL
procrastinated like crazy and made some glaring, unforgivable errors that caused the essay to be terribly confusing. (3)
[</em>] Roommate: Brilliant, but definitely not enough to make up for my first essay. (10)
[<em>] Why Stanford: Well-written, though I think my lack of research/effort may have been apparent. (8)
[</em>] Other:[/ul]
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation #1: My science teacher really liked me and probably wrote a nice rec. She recommended me for the science award. (7 or 8?)
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: My English teacher adored me (in an acceptance speech for me, he claimed I was one of the best writers out of the 3000+ AP, honors, and Academy students he had taught
a claim I find highly doubtful, but certainly to my benefit). He is also an exceptionally good writer. I expect that this one was especially good. (9 or 10)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Im pretty close with my counselor, so I think he wrote a nice review. (8)
[</em>] Additional Rec: n/a
[<em>] Interview: n/a (not in my area)
[</em>] Art Supplement:[/list]</p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: Last minute–11:58 p.m. on January 1. I didnt even have time for spellcheck. 
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): Illinois
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Large public (2500+ students)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: Upper middle class
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Aint got none. [/ul] </p>
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Test scores, Recs, some of my essays
[</em>] Weaknesses: Lack of involvement and leadership in extracurriculars
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Because I BSed my essays. I think somethings pathologically wrong with me
I procrastinated on every single one of my college apps. My Stanford app is the one that was hurt the most.
[</em>] What would you have done differently?:[/ul] I would have started my essays a good month earlier. Even a week or a couple days earlier
not at 6:00 p.m. on January 1. It was completely stupid of me to think I could get away with writing the essays at the last minute. </p>
<p>General Comments:</p>
<p>Though I am a bit disappointed that I was not accepted, BY NO MEANS do I think that, had I started my essays earlier, I would definitely have been accepted. Thats simply not true, or even reasonable. I just know that, by procrastinating so badly, I basically erased any chance I had at acceptance. I had a shot, and I screwed it up :/</p>
<p>At least I have Berkeley Engineering to cheer me up :D</p>
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