Decision: Accepted
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1500 (750 Math, 750 English)
ACT (breakdown): 34 (35 Reading, 35 English, 33 Math, 33 Science)
SAT II: Math II 760, US History 660 (Didn’t submit either)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.60
Weighted GPA: 4.60/5.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A but likely top 15%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Physics C: Mechanics (3), Calculus AB (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP French, AP Economics (Micro and Macro), AP Statistics, Honors English, Honors History, Honors Biology, Intensive Journalism
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 2 x Scholastic All-American, 2 x All-American
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Job/Work Experience: Seasonal Lifeguard, Editor for school newspaper, contributing writer for local weekly newspaper
Volunteer/Community service: Some volunteer work through my local Church
Summer Activities: Training, life-guarding
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 9.5, spent a lot of time on them and wrote about things other than my sport like my passion for writing/media. I really think I nailed the 50 word essays
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1:(10+/10). English teacher who I had for 3 years, I was one of his last recs before he retired. Really got along well with him and would stop by his room often to chat about politics and sports, He mailed me a letter over the summer telling me to stay in touch and that he would be following my athletic career on the West Coast.
Teacher Rec #2: (9/10). She was my junior year history teacher and we really got along well despite occasional differences over political ideology. She asked me if I wanted a rec from her before I had even reached out and she was really good about getting my rec done before the end of junior year.
Counselor Rec: (9/10). We got along really well and she had both of my older brothers so she knew my family well. She really understood the athletic recruiting process and helped me out a ton when I missed large chunks of school for traveling and competing.
Additional Rec: No additional recs but I think my recommendations were really good because they were written in the Spring of Junior year when my teachers had less things to do and weren’t writing a bunch of other recs like they do in the Fall. It was their first time writing recs that early but it was part of the athletic recruiting process.
Interview: Did not have one. I got my acceptance letter in July and my understanding is that most interviews take place in the Fall so I did not have one.
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: MS & E, Economics, or Political Science
State (if domestic applicant): Connecticut
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Recruited athlete
Reflection
Strengths: Recruited athlete, essays/recommendations, test scores
Weaknesses: GPA
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I worked really, really hard at school and athletics for many years and it paid off. I fully understand that I would not have gotten into Stanford without my sport, but I also dedicated and sacrificed enormous amounts of time and effort to my sport and Stanford must have taken that into consideration.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I did not formally apply anywhere else but I received positive pre-reads at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and some other big public schools
General Comments: Athletes are people too.