<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2070
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: US History 720, Math IIC 690
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.72
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 4.36
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 19/634
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geography (4), Psychology (4), Lang (3), US History(3), Environmental Science (3) taking Lit, Calc AB, Euro, and Biology this year.
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Calc AB, AP Euro, AP Biology, Honors Gov/Econ
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Student of the month at school X3
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): African-American culture club (Founder and President, 4 years), Boy Scouts (Star and librarian), trumpet for 8 years, Key Club historian, NHS secretary, 50 hours of hospital volunteering.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: My dad owns a real estate business and I occasionally help the secretary for fun.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 50 hours
[</em>] Summer Activities: Private SAT tutoring, Duke TIP
[<em>] Essays (subjects and personal opinions)
[</em>] Common App Main Essay: About the difficulty of being a wealthy African-American and the polarization I faced from both wealthy whites and poorer African-Americans.
[<em>] EC Short Answer: About how I came to love trumpet.
[</em>] Why Yale?: About how I loved the campus and the rougher surrounding city
[<em>] Short Takes: Truthful but generic
[</em>] Additional Essay: About the deliciousness of black forest cake when compared to others.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation 1: From my AP Human Geography teacher who really likes me. Good.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation 2: Cultural studies teacher who says I am one of her favorites.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Bought him a lot of presents throughout the years, so he wrote me a really good one.
[</em>] Additional Rec: From my trumpet teacher. Very good.
[<em>] Interview: We met in a Starbucks. I thought it went really well; we had some good laughs.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): CT
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Public, mildly competitive
[<em>] Ethnicity: African-American
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: $250,000+
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Academics, ECs, service hours
[</em>] Weaknesses: Race and income
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I really think I had what they were looking for for the class of '16. Just hard work! Keep at it and you’ll go far!
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Tufts and Boston College. Rejected UChicago, Northwestern, Duke, UCLA. Not sure why.
[/ul]General Comments:
Woohoo! So happy! Not all that surprised given my outstanding resume, but I was still ecstatic. Hope to see all of the accepted! For all of the rejected, just work hard in the future and maybe you can go to Yale for grad school.</p>