Wash U Class of 2020 Results ONLY Thread

Fortalimor
Fri, 18 Mar 2016 05:38:14 +0000

Decision: Waitlisted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t send.
ACT: 33
SAT II: Bio-M (780), Math II (730)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted: 4.43 (My school weights GPA a little differently)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/120
AP (place score in parenthesis): Psychology (5), English Language (5), Calc AB (5), Statistics (4), APUSH (3), APHUG (3), AP Lit (3). (I took Lang, APHUG, and APUSH without having taken the classes because my counselor had extra tests on those days).
IB (place score in parenthesis): None
Senior Year Course Load: AP Environmental Science, Spanish, AP English Language, AP US Government and Politics, English 47A (Dual Enrollment), English 101 (Dual Enrollment), Biomedical Innovations, Medical Interventions,
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): I guess if this counts? Under my leadership, our ACE Mentor team received an award for having the second-ranked project in the nation.

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): So many, this list wouldn’t be complete. Key Club (Div. Sec, Pres, Sec), HOSA (VP, Sec), ACE Mentor (Pres, Sec, Treas), MedTech Academy (Pres, Rep x 2), Summer Tutoring Program (2-time volunteer), MUN (VP, Sec), Ambassadors (Pres), Another Ambassador Club, etc. it goes on and on.
Job/Work Experience: Kaiser Permanente Summer Youth Program (Worked 140 hours alongside physicians and nurses in an emergency room and spent 20 hours participating in health leadership seminars).
Volunteer/Community service: 400+ hours volunteering at summer tutoring program, the local food bank, and various other events as a member of Key Club.
Summer Activities: Spent a lot of time at the school campus helping staff with administrative work and also helped tutor kids/acted as a sort of camp counselor during a summer Freshman bridging program. Also worked in the local hospital, also conducting research on health insurance in the United States and how we could go about reducing healthcare costs by advocating for a single-payer health care system. Presented research to colleagues and supervisors at the end of my internship at the hospital.

Essays (rating 1-10, details):

Common App Essay: 9.9-10 I honestly don’t know lol. I must have spent forever drafting this essay and wow was it amazing. I discussed how my dad’s addiction to substance abuse had driven me to seek validation and appreciation at school. I then discussed how it drove me to advocate for my principal as she was about to be removed because of a change in our school’s leadership structure.

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

AP Calc - 10/10. I waived FERPA, but he let me read it. It brought tears to my eyes it was absolutely amazing.
Honors Chemistry/Medical Interventions - Unknown. Haven’t read it, but I purposely chose this teacher because I struggled in her classes so much and I thought she could speak to my resilience.
Counselor - 10/10. Haven’t read it, but my counselor is the coolest person ever and we’re like best friends so it’s probably pretty amazing.
Principal - 7/10. She and I were amazing friends and I spoke out at a district board meeting to save her job. Her letter was kind of generic, but I think just having it improved the meaning of my common app essay.

Other

State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant): United States
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Declined to state
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Low enough
Hooks (Athlete; first generation college, etc.): Cool af

Reflection

Strengths: Stood out at a less-than-average public school and am genuinely passionate about education. My essays were wonderful and my letters of rec were on point.
Weaknesses: Test scores could have been a bit better.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I don’t really think that my personality was a match for what WashU was looking for and I’m glad that they made the decision accordingly.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: I was accepted to Stanford REA (100000000% hella committed), UC Berkeley Regents, UC Santa Cruz, Cal Poly Pomona, and Cal Poly Slo. Waitlisted at WashU. Rejected from Northwestern.

General Comments: The college admissions process is honestly so random and weird. I think that as long as you’re a qualified applicant, the admissions officers care about making sure you’ll fit in at the institution you wind up attending. I’m absolutely in love with Stanford because it was my hella dream school so this rejection doesn’t mean much to me. If you were rejected and feel a loss in self-confidence for the upcoming ivy-day, don’t. Admissions decisions are random. Just because you weren’t accepted into WashU doesn’t mean that other universities don’t want you or that you weren’t qualified. It means that there were other candidates who would fit into WashU better.