Decision: Accepted
**Date applied: [11/25/2017]
**Date decision postmarked/received:[3/22/2018]
**Which school/major at USC:[political science @ college of arts & sciences with pre-law emphasis]
**Scholarships:[none]
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): didn’t submit
ACT (breakdown): 34 (English 34 Math 35 Reading 32 Science 33)
SAT II (place score in parentheses): only submitted math 2 (800)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): dk my unweighted (weighted = 4.2)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parentheses): ap lang (4), apush (3), ap physics 1 (4), ap chinese (5)
IB (place score in parentheses): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: ap calc ab, ap us gov’t, ap lit, ap bio, chinese lang, english lang
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): I don’t think I had any major awards??
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses):
- MUN (delegate/chair for 4+yrs)
- own educational YouTube channel & blog
- ballroom dancing
- House (student) council captain, vice captain, secretary (3 yrs)
- emergency first aid response club president
Job/Work Experience: - interned @ a law firm for 1 week
Volunteer/Community Service: - local environmental
- 200+ hours
Summer Activities: - none lol I relax during the summer
Essays (rating 1-10, details):: - common app: prob a 9/10. I’d say my topic was fresh
- why USC: I’d say 6/10 lolll, I’m not really good at “Why xxx” essays
- supplementary: 7/10? it was a random essay about myself that I wrote for another school beforehand and was too lazy to write another one, so I just submitted it.
Teacher Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):: I never read any of them so those are my guesses - teacher rec 1: 10/10 my history teacher for 1 year, but I’ve known her since I was in elementary school. knows me very well, also my MUN director.
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details):: - counselor rec: 10/10 knows me very well and I’m prob her fave teehee
Additional Rec (rating 1-10, details):: - teacher rec 2: 9/10 ap lang teacher. knows me quite well too I guess, prob not as strong as my first tho, but still positive.
Interview: none
Other
Applied for Financial Aid? YES (can never afford it w/o lol)
State (if domestic applicant): US citizen, but not CA resident
Country (if international applicant): Taiwan
School Type: international, private
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: F
Income Bracket: x
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
Reflection
Strengths: prob my test scores lol (I’m asian what do u expect)
Weaknesses: I’d say my essays, but I guess they turned out good
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: idk tbh. I never expected to get in bc not a lot of people got in from our school before.
Where else you are applying or have already applied:
- rejected by Yale, Northwestern
- accepted to UCSB, UVa, USC
- waitlisted by UCLA, UC davis, UCSD
- still waiting on Berkeley (my dream school!), Georgetown, Cornell, Stanford, UC Irvine
General Comments/Advice/Hindsight:
CONGRATS to everyone that got in!!! and for the ones that didn’t, don’t be sad! You’ll go somewhere more suitable, or you can always transfer in! hopefully, I get into my dream school next week, please pray for me guys!! thanks