Decision: Accepted
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1440 (750M/690E)
ACT (breakdown): 35 (35E/33M/36R/35S)
SAT II: none
Capped Weighted UC GPA: 3.75
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Calc AB (5), AP Japanese (5), AP Stats (4), AP Lang (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Chem, AP Psych, AP US Gov, AP Lit, chamber orchestra, AP Calc AB tutor
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar w/ Honor
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Science Olympiad (co-founded and VP), math club, supplemental JP school every Sat, viola private lessons, aikido training, traditional Japanese calligraphy
Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service: very little
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 9-10 /10. I spent several months on all of my essays and got a bunch of people to help me with them, so they’re very strong. I believe they’re what saved my butt from taking an L
Supplemental Review or LOR submission: no
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Pre-Mathematics
State (if domestic applicant): Washington
School Type: decent public
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Upper middle class
ELC Eligibility: No
First Generation: No
Reflection
Strengths: test score, essays, my experiences
Weaknesses: GPA lol
Why you think you were accepted: I must have gotten in because of my essays and my character. My ECs are all different from each other, and I was very involved in my second culture, including going to Japanese school every Saturday for my whole life. I wrote the essays on leading my Science Olympiad team, translating for the first time in person in Japan, the circumstance behind my GPA, and calligraphy.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted - UW Seattle, CU Boulder, UMD (all engineering)
Rejected - Northeastern, Purdue
Waiting on - UCLA, UCSD, UCI, UMich, NYU, BU
General Comments:
DON’T let a low GPA stop you!!! The reason for my GPA being so low wasn’t a crazy circumstance (ie. rough living conditions, illness, etc), but rather the difficulty of the shift from easy classes to AP classes. I still got accepted, even without that convincing of a reason to my low grades, haha. It’s not the stats that matter the most; it’s what they see in you and how you present yourself. I can say that that’s true for my other schools, too (for example I got direct admit to engineering at UW even with a 3.6 unweighted). If you’re reading this and you’re in the process of applying to colleges, make sure those essays are bomb, and trust colleges to look beyond your stats. Good luck! Congratulations to those who were accepted. And no matter where you go, you will all do great things:)