Waitlisted
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT (breakdown): 35 (35 E, 33 M, 35 R, 36 S)
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.3
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 12/713
AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH (5), AP Biology (4), AP Spanish (5), AP English 11 (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Literature, AP Government, AP Econ, Law Academy, AP Physics 1, AP Calculus AB
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Honor, National Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta
Vanderbilt Merit Scholarship: No
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): National Honor Society (Treasurer), Interact Club (Chaplain), Peer Helper (Group Leader), Student Ambassador, Hoover Belle (representative for city of Hoover), Empire Mock Trial, Varsity Winter Guard
Job/Work Experience: Spanish tutor, summer nanny, after-school nanny
Volunteer/Community service: annual church mission trips, weekly service at the local food pantry over the summer
Summer Activities: Nannying, mission trips
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 6/10. I wrote in response to the Common App prompt asking to tell something about myself that was not already included in my application. I wrote about my childhood growing up overseas while my parents were serving as missionaries in the Middle East and how that experience evolved into a passion for international studies and my career goal of working in the Public Health field in foreign countries. My AP English teacher helped me edit it down to the word count, but I don’t think it was my strongest writing.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
I didn’t read any of my rec letters, but I think they were all pretty good. I got the teacher who taught me two years of APUSH and one year of Law Academy who honestly loved me. I also got my AP Biology teacher since I was looking into studying a science and then my AP English teacher because he is familiar with my good communication skills
Interview: I contacted an interviewer, but she was living overseas for a year and emailed me back to say that she was unavailable to interview me. After that, I did not request another interview
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Medicine, Health, and Society
State (if domestic applicant): Alabama
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Large public high school
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: My parents make 80k a year combined
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
Reflection
Strengths: test scores and GPA
Weaknesses: extracurriculars (not much leadership or continuity, I quit color guard for my senior year to have more time for things like Mock Trial and Ambassadors), essay
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Probably wait-listed because my extracurriculars were honestly not that impressive and I applied Regular Decision, which I realize now seriously decreased my chances. If you know you want to go to Vandy, go ahead and apply Early Decision. I have heard now that you can back out of Early Decision if the financial aid isn’t enough, and if I had known that I probably would have applied ED and might have had a better chance of getting in
Accepted: Auburn, Samford, University of Texas at Austin, Baylor
General Comments:
Apply Early Decision if this is where you want to go and financial aid is the only thing holding you back.
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