Decision: Waitlisted
Planned Major/College: College of Arts & Sciences
State Residency: In-State
Rigor: currently taking Differential Equations and English at a local community college; have taken a year of college-level (calculus-based) physics at the community college; other courses are at home
Rank: homeschooled so irrelevant
GPA: 4.0 unweighted
Demonstration of Good Character: participate in a volunteer organization where I have good standing with the leaders, one of whom wrote me a letter of recommendation; otherwise it isn’t easy to determine this since the faculty don’t know me personally
SAT/ACT: 1480 (710 EBRW, 770 Math)
Extras/Volunteer work/Talents/Jobs: chess, running (currently training for a half marathon), independent research (recently got a paper accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal in the field of theoretical physics (is on-line but not finalized yet)), programming, robotics, extra studying for fun (particularly in measure theory, conformal field theory, and computability)
Ethnicity: White (no ethnic hooks)
Gender: Male (no gender-related hooks since I am interested in STEM)
Any hooks?: NO
Were you deferred from early action?: no
Thoughts on why you received that decision: not interesting enough/didn’t pander to the university’s ideological interests, didn’t have good enough (i.e. diverse enough) extracurriculars + no “hooks” the university was interested in