Stanford Class of 2022 RD Results Thread

writergirl0316
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 01:50:55 +0000

ACT (breakdown): 35 C (36 E, 35 R, 34 S, 33 M, 12 essay/36 writing)
SAT II: 800 (US History), 750 (Math II)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 (~98-99)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/269
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP World (5), APUSH (5), AP Spanish Lang (5), AP English Lang (5), AP Calc AB (5)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Macro (1st sem), AP Micro (2nd sem), AP Stat, AP Psych, Gov, DE Sociology
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Scholastic Writing Awards National Gold Medalist for personal essay, National Finalist in MIT Inspire humanities research competition (one of six literature finalists selected nationwide), Four-Time Regional Gold Key for Writing, National Merit Commended, AP Scholar with Distinction

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):

Editor-in-Chief of an international youth literary journal (submissions from 30+ states & 24+ countries; manage 35+ staff members from California to Singapore)

Prose editor at international literary magazine

Creative writing (featured in multiple publications)

Docent at the Guggenheim’s education department

Blogging for two other literary journals

Classroom assistant at literary nonprofit

Intern for poetry organization

Political activism (state senate intern & political writer)

President of National English Honor Society

Debate team captain & policy summer lab camp counselor

US ambassador for an international education project

Volunteer for initiative to help progressive female candidates campaign for governmental elections

Recommendations from APUSH & AP English teachers were honestly prob both 10/10, adored both teachers & they very clearly understood my passion, intellectual curiosity and belief in social justice. I’d like to think this was a strong point for my app.

Essays were mostly about different aspects of writing/themes I find intriguing and embracing vulnerability through being bad at art!

Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: I mostly put down English on the app (with History/International Relations/Sociology/etc as secondary interests)
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public (I was the only person accepted into Yale, Brown and Penn this year. I was the second admit ever to Yale, and maybe to Brown as well. We also had our first admit to Harvard yesterday & a handful of acceptances from Cornell)
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): White Jewish girl from NYC lol nooo hooks

Reflection
Strengths: Obviously really deep creative writing spike (international ECs + national awards), GPA, ACT, AP scores, probably essays/teacher recommendations
Weaknesses: No hooks at all (my demographic is a dime a dozen), and little things (math/sci curriculum could’ve been harder – no AP lab science/AP Calc BC; SAT II Math 2 was a little low)
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Really strong focus on doing things I love?? I had anti-hooks so I’m in shock
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Yale (after SCEA deferral), Stanford, Brown, Penn, Tufts (Neubauer Scholar), Johns Hopkins (Woodrow Wilson Research Fellow), Wesleyan, Vassar, McGill, Binghamton Scholars, Macaulay Honors ; Waitlisted: Harvard, UChicago, Georgetown ; Rejected: Princeton