***Vassar College ED I Class of 2019 Decision Thread***

Burche
Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:38:20 +0000

Decision: Accepted

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t take!
[] ACT: 32 (34 English, 34 Math, 34 Reading, 27 Science) 10 Reading
[] SAT Subject Tests: 690 BIO E, bad scores for other two… didn’t send!
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] Weighted GPA: 4.35
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1st deciles
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Biology (4), AP Govnt (4) didn’t report either.
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Calc BC, AP Music Theory, Modern History, Honors Economics, Honors Personal Finance, Peer Teaching, Honors French IV
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Lots of MUN awards from smaller conferences

[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Model UN (President for two years), Book club (founder and president for 2 1/2 years), French Honors Society (former Vice President), Mu Alpha Theta, Scholar’s Bowl, Student Council, Beta Club, PreCollege UpwardBound,
[] Job/Work Experience: None
[] Volunteer/Community service: over 300 hours
[] Summer Activities: Governor’s School for International Studies, PreCollege UpwardBound summer sessions, Volunteer teaching assistant at an underprivileged youth camp in Virginia.
[] Essays: CA (strong), YourSpace (really original and personal, so good!), Extracurricular (Really good. Talked about my book club), why Vassar (really good. My teachers liked this one the best. I talked about Vassar’s pronunciation, and how I butchered it.)
[] Teacher Recommendation: Outstanding: I know these two teachers very well, and I’ve seen some of their previous recommendations
[] Counselor Rec: Pretty okay.
[] Additional Rec: Got it from my Governor’s School mentor who is getting her PhD and was in the PeaceCorps in Mauritania (So, very good!)
[li] Interview: Wonderful [/li]
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[] Intended Major (undecided is fine): Political Science and French (Correlated study in Arabic)
[] State (if domestic applicant): Tennessee
[] Country (if international applicant): US
[] School Type: Poor public county school
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: 100k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Southern male [/li]
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Extra curricular, Essays, scores, GPA, poor school
[] Weaknesses: None really…
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Reasons above
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I haven’t applied anywhere else except Clark University, which I haven’t heard anything about, and I’m about to withdraw that application…
[/ul]General Comments: SO READY FOR VASSAR 2015