Decision: Deferred
Objective:
ACT: 34 (35, 35, 34, 33)
SAT II: Lit 770, Bio 720
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.65
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): Latin (4), Studio Art (5), English Lit (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AB Calc, APES, Astronomy, English, Latin 5 Advanced Topics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): just some art stuff
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 7 season Varsity Rowing (captain), 6 season Varsity Swim (captain), Student government rep, peer educator, yearbook staff
Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service: not submitted
Essays: I’d like to think that they were well done…perhaps they didn’t stand out quite enough.
Teacher Recommendation: I have fabulous teachers and I am extremely close to the teachers who wrote my recs
Counselor Rec: ???
Additional Rec:
Other
State (if domestic applicant): MA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: private
Ethnicity: white
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 100k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
Reflection
Strengths: ECs (although there are only a few, I dedicate a significant amount of time and effort to each)
Weaknesses: stats (I’m not going to lie, I’m not a particularly good test taker. I tend to make silly errors rather than conceptual ones, and wow do they add up)
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: GPA (I have no regrets…I challenged myself by taking extremely challenging courses at an extremely challenging school and I am a better student for it)
General Comments: Honestly, the decision was crushing (but I guess somebody has to be disappointed). Williams is the perfect fit for me. I know that I’d get a lot from Williams and truly believe that I’d add to the community. I just wish the admission officers could see who I am as a person.
Best of luck to you all (and congrats to those who were accepted)! I’m sure that you are all really amazing individuals, so please remind yourselves of what makes you special and don’t forget to love yourselves 