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

swaggieee
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 07:08:35 +0000

Decision: Waitlisted

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 1920 (720 CR, 540 M, 660 W, 8 essay) (took once; didn’t send lol)
[] ACT: 33 (35 E, 29 M, 36 R, 32 S, 8 essay) Superscored 34 (35 E, 29 M, 36 R, 34 S, 8 essay) UCLA doesn’t superscore but I sent them both scores because I was hella desperate
[] SAT II: 730 USH, 710 Lit
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96 for just 10th and 11th grade but it was 3.88 overall when I applied
[] UC GPA: 4.25 I think
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 11/182 when I applied so top 6%
[] ELC?: ya
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Euro (4), AP Lang (4), APUSH (dual credit)
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, Honors Econ/AP Gov (first/second semester), Photo III, AP Psych, AP English Lit, Biblical Wisdom, Physics
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): n/a[/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Photography (11th-12th), Gardening club (11th-12th), French club (11th-12th), Baking club (president; 12th), CSF (11th-12th), Swimming (jv 9th and 10th, team manager (lol) 11th)
[] Job/Work Experience: n/a
[] Volunteer/Community service: Miscellaneous church volunteering (almost every weekend 9th-12th), VBS at my church (I played keyboard on the worship band and helped run the soundboard 9th-12th), Peer leadership program at school (12th), Peer leader at ESL summer institute (12th)
[] Personal Statement: Both could’ve been better. I was so stressed about writing them the week before the deadline that I just kinda gave up lol. I ended up writing them the day of the deadline (which they ended up extending by one day) so I didn’t get to edit them as much as I wanted/needed to

Describe the world you come from: I tried to connect how I liked reading about random stuff when I was a kid with how I want to learn about the world now and talked about some of my interests in the process. It didn’t really flow that well; I’d give it like a 7/10.

Quality that is important to you: I talked about an event that I felt demonstrated my ambition. There were a lot of bad puns in this one and I’m kinda proud of it, but it could’ve been better. I’d give it a 9/10.

[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: ya
[li]** Intended Major**: Undeclared Social Sciences[/li][] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[] Country (if international applicant):
[] School Type: small Christian private
[] Ethnicity: white
[] Gender: male
[] Income Bracket: 160k
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): idk if this is a hook or not but I’m graduating at 16

[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: SATIIs and ACT kinda
[] Weaknesses: didn’t take most rigorous courseload (no advanced math classes sophomore + junior year), got an 89 in general chem first semester sophomore year, ACT math score wasn’t great
[] Schools were you accepted/waitlisted to? Accepted: UCI (Honors), UCSD, NYU, Boston University, University of San Francisco, Drexel (Honors). Waitlisted at Boston College and UCLA.
[] Schools you were rejected from? USC, Cornell
[li] Schools you are waiting for? none[/li]
[/ul]General Comments: So many people at my school and on here who were way more qualified than I am were denied and I have no idea why I wasn’t. I’m staying on the waitlist and am probs gonna go if I am accepted off of it

Also, I wouldn’t recommend starting a club senior year. I did and I had like no time to do anything with it