size=6 color=yellow bDecision: Waitlisted/b/color/size
(Im leaving dashes at some areas because of privacy)
Objective:
ACT (breakdown): 34 Superscore, 33 composite
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.62 out of 4 unweighted, 5.33 out of 6 weighted gpa
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 20%
AP (place score in parentheses): APUSH (5), Chem (4), Spanish (4), language (4), Human geo (4), World History (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, ap literature, ap gov/econ, health/speech, varsity choir, PE, ap physics 1
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): DECA international finalist
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses):
-Marketing Officer of my school’s DECA chapter
-Finalist of a very prestigious international Indian singing competition, which was aired across the world and is watched very widely by millions in India
-Co-founder of an organization in which those of us who competed in the Indian competition go around the nation to give benefit concerts and we have raised over 20000$ so far
- Professional singer in a professional charity fundraising album with 10 Indian classical songs. I raised $6000+ for charity through this
-Alto Section Leader of my school’s Choir: Varsity-Mixed Choir, we are set to perform at Carnegie Hall Spring 2018,1st chair at Area level, state music scholar, highest scores at state UIL
-Secretary of the academy at my school (the academy is an application-based program that enriches selected students to become aware of global issues and lead the future)
-Student at ___ Music Academy- I’ve been learning Indian singing here for over 6 years and have won many awards in local and internationally televised Indian singing competitions
-Youth coordinator of __ org - this org is a volunteering service organization that is active across the globe. I volunteered for over 200 hours with this org and qualified to receive the gold pvsa award
-member of the Mu Alpha Theta (math NHS)
-member of Spanish NHS
Job/Work Experience:
(I sent these in an update of my senior year):
-I recently helped restart an IT consulting company called ___ and received a paid
internship. I run payrolls, take phone calls and do marketing work such as designing and
running their website and creating flyers and business cards.
- I recently started leading a major nationwide community service project called __. I am working with professionals to lead a team and design a website, database, survey and other marketing tools to connect over 150 people, who donated to sponsor visually challenged children, to the children who are receiving these donations.
Volunteer/Community Service: 250+ hours, received the gold PVSA (president’s volunteer service award)
Summer Activities: in 9th grade summer I did the prestigious indian singing competition, in 10th grade summer i did the indian classical album, in 11th grade summer I took an AP econ course
Essays:
Commonapp: 7/10- wrote about what music meant to me personally and it was very unique
UChicago supplements: 9/10 (my UChicago diy topic one was SUPER unique, my why UChicago was also very apt)
Teacher Recommendations: idk
Counselor Rec: idk
Additional Rec: -
Interview: -
Other: I submitted a song from my Indian album to UChicago and Columbia as my music supplement
State (if domestic applicant):TX
Country (if international applicant):-
School Type: Public, competitive
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: F
Income Bracket: ~130k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
reflection: tbh i probably didnt get because of grades GRADES GRADES and rank lol because everything else was perfect. I’m not completely disappointed though lol I was expecting a flat out rejection. hopefully better news from other colleges will come 