<p>Decision: Accepted (Electrical Engineering)</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2180 (M-800,W-730,R-650)
ACT: Should’ve taken it, but didn’t!!
SAT II: MII - 780, Phy - 760… Din’t send either of them!!
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): N/A, 10th - 94%, 11th - 84% (Indian system)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/99
AP (place score in parenthesis): N/A
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Toughest available
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Harvard MUN Outstanding delegate maybe?
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Many ECs but listing only those mentioned in the UIUC app:-
- Student Govt.
- Event Head at School’s national science fair
- Various Model UN awards, organized a Model UN
- Football(Soccer) - some achievements
- Basketball - some achievements
Job/Work Experience: None, too damn lazy!!
Volunteer/Community service: National Cadet Corps - 2yrs; National Service Scheme 2yrs
Summer Activities: Nothing great
Essays: Not great! Essay #1 was a truncated version of my commonapp one. Essay #2 was on photography written in 5-10 minutes!!
Teacher Recommendation: They don;t require these!
Counselor Rec: Not needed
Additional Rec: Don’t even have one, but not needed again!
Interview: Nah!
Other[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):[</em>] Country (if international applicant): India[<em>] School Type: Pvt[</em>] Ethnicity: Indian[<em>] Gender: Male[</em>]Income Bracket: Low, but no relation with the admission decision[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None!
Reflection[</em>] Strengths: SAT in top 25 percentile for UIUC, good enough ECs & grades.[<em>] Weaknesses: Bad bad essay![</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: They need the Intn’l tuition fee, which I’m not going to give them!! [li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted - Drexel University, All other rejections are due on March 28th - yes it’s Ivy day!! [/li]General Comments: Pretty useless this acceptance, unless UIUC sees this post and decides to offer me a decent enough scholarship!!
Anyway congrats to all those accepted, keep pursuing to all those waitlisted and hard luck to all those rejected!! </p>
<p>Edit - Copy pasted it from the other thread, so no formatting!</p>