<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED **
Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 740 CR 710 MT 740 WR = 2190
[</em>] SAT IIs: 740 US History 700 Physics 740 Literature
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] APs: 5 English Language 5 US History 5 European History
[<em>] IBs: N/A
[</em>] GPA: 92.9 (we grade out of 100) 3.7/4.0
[<em>] Rank: not ranked, mad competitive school
[</em>] Other stats: AP Scholar, Posse scholarship finalist.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Martial Arts, Chess, Figure Skating, Theater
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Social Science Research at Columbia this past summer, few acting jobs.
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Common App: How I’ve changed through high school, how academics have become off-radar to central core in my life
Chicago Essay: Picked the one about outgrowing something, talked about how I used to skate really competitively but ultimately gave it up to pursue a better education.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: One was from a teacher I’ve known since before high school, because he lives in my neighborhood. Had him for US History, and I assume this was really good. Other was pretty solid, from my physics teacher. Final one from my martial arts teacher who’s known me for 13 years.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Also good, in a school with over 3000 kids, she knew my name, my mom’s name, and I always hung out with her during frees junior year
[</em>] Applied on: 1/1 FTW !
[<em>] Hook (if any): Multi-Racial, I was really competitive in all of my ECs (as in state/national level) and have been doing them all of them for at least 10 years, single mother, low income lol.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: New York
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, one of the best in the country
[</em>] Ethnicity: white/black/asian
[li] Gender: male[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:</p>
<p>This is one of my top schools, only an ivy could bump it off, and the day before I got rejected from a public honors school, so I really really needed this. SOOOO happy!</p>