Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1460 (730/730)
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II: Did really bad on all of them so I didn’t use them
Capped Weighted UC GPA: 4.55
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):24/568
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Euro (2) AP Calc (1) AP Lang (3) AP Bio (3)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Econ, AP Comp Sci Principles, AP Environmental Science, Service, Boy’s Varsity Tennis
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): President’s award, congress award, and various other awards for volunteering, 3rd place at SYMF (A piano competition),
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Tennis (Captain 12th grade), Piano level 10 CM, Author of a light novel, Managers for the girl’s tennis team
Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service: KAYP (Korean American Youth Program)(President Senior Year), Apple Tree (volunteer program where I taught kids K-8 in both academics and taekwondo)
Summer Activities: Didn’t really put anything
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 6-7/10 I wrote about how tennis taught me leadership, how piano taught me to challenge myself, how writing a novel made me more expressive, and about cooking my first meal and how I had to improvise a lot.
Supplemental Review or LOR submission:
Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Business Administration
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public with ranking
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: > $200,000
ELC Eligibility: Yes? (If this is the top 10% of your school thing, then yes)
First Generation: No
Reflection:
Strengths: GPA, SAT, and Extracurriculars
Weaknesses: AP
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think I was accepted because my grades were good enough and the fact that I was determined to stick with the extracurriculars I took (10 years of both tennis and piano). I also had a bit of leadership which probably also helped me.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: UCR, UCSD, Bentley, Villanova, CSU Slo, CSU Pomona, and Northeastern Waitlisted: Babson Rejected: USC, Claremont, Emory, Dartmouth Waiting for: Harvard, NYU, and UC Berkeley
General Comments: Honestly, I’m probably going to UCI. It’s pretty cheap and the business program should be pretty good. All I’m worried about is that the connections might not be as good as USC.