Accepted In state Pender County
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1560 (760 RW/800 M)
ACT: 34, 35 superscore
SAT II: 800 Math II, 750 BioE, 750 World History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.58
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/364
AP (place score in parenthesis): WH 4, Lang 4, EnvSci 5
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Calc AB/BC, AP Chem, AP Gov, Dual enrollment: Macroeconomics & Spanish
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): FCCLA Nationals Gold, National Merit Semifinalist, some scholarships etc.
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): SAT/ACT club prep President, Ecology Club committee leader, FCCLA Chapter Officer, blogger and author for newspaper, Mock coop Head Board of Directors, etc.
Job/Work Experience: Worked at school coffee shop. Personal tutor.
Volunteer/Community service: volunteer at library, online, and river cleanups (earned national certification)
Summer Activities: 2 summer leadership camps at Ivy universities and youth tours on top of competitions
Essays (8-9): my personal statement was about my struggles, wrote pretty good supplementals about my major and community
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major and College: Environmental Science
State (if domestic applicant): NC
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: less than 2,000 public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
Teacher Recommendation (9-10): 2 good recs from my AP teachers who knew me well
Counselor Rec (8-9): good relationship
Additional Rec (10): 2, one from another teacher who writes good letters and one from a mentor who works at UCLA
Strengths: High SAT scores and gpa. Very involved in and out of school. Poured my heart into my essays. Also had very good recommendations. I completely filled the Common App additional info section with other experiences.
Weaknesses: Didn’t take as many APs due to transferring from California my sophomore year, so I had to retake courses for credit.
So far deferred from Duke and uChicago. Still waiting for others.
Reasoning: Probably because I have high stats compared to my area and have done a lot of extracurriculars to make myself stand out. Being one of the top kids at my school definitely helped.
Good luck to all during this hectic process!