<p>Decision: Accepted (Bioengineering)</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t Take
[</em>] ACT: Took three times, first was 30, second 31, and last one 33 (English-34 Math-34 Reading-32 Science-30)
[<em>] SAT II: Didn’t take
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Our school is weird, but 4.2 since our A+'s are worth 4.33
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/200
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): none
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): none
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Gov, Chem II, Physics, AP Environmental Science, Calculus, World Literature
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): XC, swim team, tennis
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Tennis Instructor, and Hollister Employee
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Couple daycares and a couple hospitals. Mission trip to Joplin, Missouri
[<em>] Summer Activities: none really
[</em>] Essays: decent. Wrote about working on my car, since that seems to apply to engineering.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Don’t think I had to send one?
[</em>] Counselor Rec:
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview:
[/ul]Other [ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Illinois
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Private, Catholic
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>]Income Bracket: Above the average I’d say
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): [/ul]
Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Class Rank
[<em>] Weaknesses: Essay, probably. And the fact that I took no AP tests when I had the opportunity to.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Class Rank. Two of my siblings went there. Not sure if that helps?
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to Notre Dame [/ul][/li]General Comments:
Is there anyone else out there who’s going into Bioengineering or at least heard something about it? UIUC is my top choice. From the sound of it though, it seems like as engineers we’re going to have no life if we want to get above a 3.0 GPA haha.</p>