Stats on those who are already accepted?

Carotid
Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:11:50 +0000

This might be more helpful.

Decision: Accepted

Objective:

[ *] SAT I (breakdown): N/A
[ *] ACT (breakdown): 29 (32 E, 29 R, 27 M, 26 S)
[ *] SAT II (place score in parentheses): N/A
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.33
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[ *] AP (place score in parentheses): Calc AB
[ *] IB (place score in parentheses): IB Spanish, IB English, IB Chemistry, IB Biology, IB TOK
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: Calc AB, IB Spanish, IB English, IB Chemistry, IB Biology, IB TOK, Smyphonic Band, AM Gov
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 2014 Horatio Alger Scholar

Subjective:

[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Football (Captain), Key Club (President Senior yr, Secretary/Treasurer Junior yr), Pre-Med Club (President), Sports Management Club (Cofounder), Band/Choir (Honors in both), Baseball, Eucharistic Minister
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Mother’s business (Manager), 20+ hours/wk
[ *] Volunteer/Community Service: Hospital Volunteer (100 hours)
[ *] Summer Activities: Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (Princeton, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Roger Williams)
[ *] Essays: Very good. Told about being raised by a single mother from Mexico and the abandonment of my abusive father. Also explained my jump in grades as I transferred from a large, predominantly all-white public school where I faced hardships to a very small well-known preparatory school after receiving a scholarship.
[ *] Teacher Recommendations: English Teacher - Good. Spanish Teacher - Average
[ *] Counselor Rec: Great
[ *] Additional Rec: N/A
[ *] Interview: N/A

Other:

[ *] State (if domestic applicant): AZ
[ *] Country (if international applicant): US
[ *] School Type: Private
[ *] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] Income Bracket: <20,000
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Hispanic, First generation, low income, raised by single mother in a household of 4

Reflection:

[ *] Strengths: Very strong subjective. I went from a 3.2 to a 3.96 W from my Freshman to Sophomore years. Very rigorous course load. Strong athletics and leadership.
[ *] Weaknesses: GPA and my ACT. The highest composite I achieved was actually a 27 because I somehow bombed the reading test and did pretty well on the english.
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I think I fit the CMC stereotype pretty well. Admissions must have seen this in conjunction with the diversity I’ll bring to campus.
[ *] General Comments/Advice/Hindsight: I honestly didn’t think I’d get in. It was hard to deduce my chances when seeing how I’m a strong subjective/weak objective applicant. I suppose CMC just didn’t have very many students of color within their ED 2 pool.