question about admissions board

2012mom
Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:58:45 +0000

How does the admissions board decide when a candidate’s package will be reviewed? Is it true that each person’s record is brought before the board only once, even if the package is updated with better scores, etc?

My dd’s application (grades, class rank, test scores, teacher evals, CFA, BGO, activities record, etc) were all completed by mid-late July. She has excellent academics (see below), but could do better on test scores (is scheduled to re-take) and CFA. Would all this be overcome by events if her package goes before the board in the first round?

grades 4.0 unweighted (was ranked 9 of 219 at college prep school, but is now 6th of 219)
SATs 680M/680V/750W (SAT II Chem 790)
CFA: 35’ bb throw
27 sec arm hang (can now do 1 full pullup -> reason to re-take?)
101 situps
39 pushups (can now do 50 -> reason to re-take?)
9 sec shuttle
7:41 mile (she can probably beat this time now)

1 club sport throughout HS (tournament captain for 2 events), played on varsity track team last year and this coming year

Academic team JV captain last year, probably varsity captain this year
NHS, Beta club, French NHS, highly probable National Merit Semi-Finalist

volunteers several places, including one where she is the only under-18 volunteer (was allowed based on maturity during interview)

summer internship for a biotech company, NASS participant, selected for and attended state Governor’s Scholar program