<p>Decision: ACCEPTED </p>
<p>Stats:
SAT I : 710 (CR); 700 (M); 720 (W)
SAT IIs: cant actually remember without looking…they were just okay if i recall
APs: US History (5). This year, I’m taking US Gov, Brit Lit, and Physics.
GPA: 3.88 (on a 4.0 scale, with A+ = 4.5)
Rank: no ranking
Subjective:</p>
<p>ECs listed on app: NHS pres, rocket team pres, Christian club pres. sec. and chair, social committee chair, HSSC VP, Cross Country, Sailing, Track, Paddling, Tutor, Ambassador, Piano</p>
<p>Job/Work Experience: Secretary at real estate agency</p>
<p>Essays (subject and responses): My Common App essay was about my love of black holes and relating it to the way I take on challenges. For “Why Vassar?,” I wrote about how I really didn’t know anything about Vassar until a family friend forced me to visit. I just wanted to get to NYC so I was upset we had to stop in the middle of nowhere, but we took the tour, and I feel in love.</p>
<p>Teacher Recs: One was pretty good (hard and strange AP physics teacher who teaches at the college level; he made us write our own recs and submit them to him just so he could show us what difficult work it is to write a rec for someone 
) Second was GREAT (AP english teacher who adores me and also went to vassar)</p>
<p>Counselor Rec: Excellent…we had to take personal interviews with her before she would write them for us, but she hit on a lot of details we wanted to include.</p>
<p>Applied on: wow that was a long time ago…lol</p>
<p>Hook (if any): I did all the extra stuff…my picture was a photo of me shark diving off the coast of the island I live on, the extra “essay” was actually a pair of purple pants that i bought at walmart and i wrote my essay/poem on that (which i kinda want back to wear for myself ) and i sent in the music supplement. Also, the great recs probably helped. And my location…there aren’t a lot of people from Hawaii at Vassar from what i understand…</p>
<p>[ b]Location/Person:**[ list]
State or Country: Hawaii
School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Competitive, episcopalian, all girls, private
Ethnicity: Haole (what locals call white people)
Gender: Woman</p>
<p>[/list]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
I’m actually pretty stoked…I was reading everyone else’s stats and it’s amazing how smart everyone else is! I can’t wait to surround myself with such people. I only applied to 6 schools, all competitive and on the east coast. Of the 6, i was rejected at one, wait listed at two, and accepted to 3. I received scholarship to all three, but Vassar is giving me the most (half tuition). Most likely will end up here. Its far away, but Im excited!!! :D</p>