*******UCLA CLASS OF 2019 DECISIONS ONLY*******

nightowl19
Sat, 28 Mar 2015 20:24:58 +0000

Decision: Accepted: pre business economics

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):
ACT: 34
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
Weighted GPA: It’s around 4.4
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 15%
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP lang (5) ap euro(4) macro (4) APUSH(4) physics (3) French (3)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP psych, AP chinese, AP environmental science, AP lit, philosophy honors, AP gov
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, national merit commended student, 4 year high honor roll

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Swim team ( captain ) , youth and government , Hispanic youth tutoring (treasurer), 10 years of piano competition, law club, BPA, FBLA, FCCLA, cross country
Job/Work Experience: Swim teacher, dental assistant
Volunteer/Community service: Bernie’s book bank, chinese volunteer camp to teach underprivileged children English
Summer Activities: intern at Abbott laboratories
Essays: 8/10
Teacher Recommendation: 10/10
Counselor Rec: 10/10
Additional Rec: None
State: Illinois
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Strengths: ACT, extracurriculars, challenging course load, upward trend
Weaknesses: course load
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: very very surprised
General Comments: I was rejected by most of my RD schools: carnegie mellon, northwestern, UNC, USC and WAITLISTED at michigan after being deferred. ACCEPTED at UCLA and NYU STERN, MIAMI u( full ride) , university of rochester ( deans scholarship), UIUC ( accounting)