<p>**Decision: Accepted RD **</p>
<p>i’m posting to help out all the other RDers since there isn’t an official RD thread yet. ^^</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2090 (CR: 740, M: 700, W: 650 [ouch])
[</em>] ACT: 30
[<em>] SAT II: Math II: 710, US History: 760, Biology: 700
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): we dont rank =D
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): all of them?.. European History (5), APUSH (4), English Lang (4), Calc AB (4), Biology (3) … i dont talk about Spanish or Physics
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Chem, AP Pysch, AP Econ, AP US Gov, AP English Lit, AP Calc BC (apparently vandy doesnt like it when a student goes from taking AP Calc to Stat so i took Calc again)
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Achievement Finalist, National Honor Society, AP Scholar w/ Honors</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Biology Club, Red Cross Club, Youth Group (Worship Leader), a Polymer Science program, and a bunch of other stuff<br>
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: do internships count? I was an intern at a local clinic.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 200 hours at Nashville’s wonderful children’s museum. i love kids =)
[</em>] Summer Activities: volunteering and summer hw(well kinda towards the end of the summer)
[<em>] Essays: common app essay was amazing…ly long. lol but i loved it. i talked about diversity and how it got me to choose what i wanted to do in life. vandy didnt have a supplemental essay (thank the lord. they were the first app i finished)
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: i’m sure they were great. i chose teachers who i love.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: who knows. it could go either way with her. she seemed totally swamped last semester so i dont know if she did her best with each one.
[</em>] Additional Rec: n/a
[li] Interview: nope and i live here lol.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: oh yeah. definitely.
[</em>] Intended Major: Biomedical Engineering
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Tennessee
[</em>] School Type: highly competitive magnet school. one of US News’s top 30 public schools. oh the pressure.
[<em>] Ethnicity: African!
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: <60,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: super rigorous curriculum at a super competitive school, National Achievement…close proximity to the school XD i really dont know.
[</em>] Weaknesses: i hated my test scores. everything else was pretty solid though.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: well my school for one. vandy accepts buttloads from our school every year and im african what else lol. jk jk. [/li][/ul]General Comments:
vandy is an amazing school. i highly urge admitted students to attend. that is if you dont live in Nashville. vandy is like my second home. im there all the time. i need to branch out. but im still waiting till april 1st to see that financial aid offer. you all might see me at vandy yet!</p>