<p>Decision: Accepted to Engineering 
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<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2300 - 800 CR, 760 M, 740 (12) W
[</em>]SAT IIs: 800 Chem, 800 Math II, 760 Bio, 750 Math I
[<em>]ACT:N/A
[</em>]GPA (uw/w): 3.67 UW (out of 4.0), 4.43 W (out of 5.0)
[<em>]Rank (uw/w):school doesn’t rank (probably in the top 5-10%)
[</em>]Other stats: not sure what to put here…[/ul]
Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays:
-Common app: short one about playing music, long one about being a triplet
-Supplement: wrote optional essay #2 about imagination/invention
[</em>]Teacher Recs: got one from my math teacher from last year who really liked me (I didn’t see what he wrote though)
[<em>]Counselor Rec: not really sure
[</em>]Hook: the only big thing is that my dad went there for med school and my grandfather went there for undergrad and med school
[<em>]Supplementary Material: nothing?
[</em>]Extracurriculars:
-Captain of XC team; run varsity XC, indoor T/F, outdoor T/F
-play Clarinet and Alto and Bari sax in jazz groups in and out of school
-still go to Hebrew School[/ul]
Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location (state/country):
Massachusetts (suburb of Boston about 30min from Tufts)
[</em>]High School Type:
Medium-large sized Public (~1800 students); one of two in the city
[<em>]Ethnicity: white
[</em>]Gender: male
[<em>]Applied for Financial Aid: no [/ul]
Other[ul]
[</em>]Awards:
-Got a silver medal on the National Spanish Exam
-I’ve made the honor role at my HS every term
-Commended on PSATs
-Got the fall MIAA sportsmanship award (given to two seniors at each school)
[<em>]Major strength/weakness: I think my biggest weakness is that I did hardly any community service
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/rejected/deferred: I think I was accepted because I’ve excelled in all of my classes related to my prospective major (engineering), but I’ve still done well in all of my other classes as well as extra-curriculars
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I don’t really have any advice, just make sure you put time into the essays, and you should probably write the optional one[/ul]</p>