Wash U Class of 2020 Results ONLY Thread

nineteeth123
Thu, 24 Mar 2016 20:07:36 +0000

Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2110 (reading 680 math 740 writing 690)
ACT: 31
SAT II: none
GPA (out of 4.0): weighted - 4.2857
Rank: 26 out of 183
AP: world history 3. Chinese 4. Environmental science 4. English language 4. Physics 3
IB (place score in parenthesis): none
Senior Year Course Load: ap psychology, ap statistics, English 4, ap
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): beta club, national honor society (Vice President), American Red Cross, HOSA, medical reserve corps, Chinese school, BPA
Job/Work Experience: no jobs
Volunteer/Community service: over 400 hours total. Hospital volunteer, Camp CAMP (volunteer at summer camp for children with autism), teachers assistant at Chinese school, national honor society and beta club service projects,
Summer Activities: hospital and camp CAMP volunteer summer after sophomore year
Essays (rating 1-10, details): wrote about how when I was younger I didn’t feel accepted by my black culture or my Asian culture and now I have found a middle way where I embrace both cultures. My English teacher really loved it but i would say it’s a 6,7, or 8
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: my English teacher writes great Rec letters in general
Teacher Rec #2: my AP calculus teacher (I’m not sure because I only used her because I didn’t know who else to ask…)
Counselor Rec: not sure. I’m pretty sure the counselors at my school write generic letters for everyone
Additional Rec:
Interview: no

Other
State (if domestic applicant): Texas
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: public school (top 50 in the US and top public school in my city)
Ethnicity: black
Gender: female
Income Bracket: 75-95K
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM - I listed my ethnicity as solely black

Reflection
Strengths: essay topic about being mixed and being from two very different cultures
Weaknesses: sat scores not even in the middle 50
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: many of my friends said it was affirmative action (eyeroll). Tbh tho, many of my more qualified classmates were waitlisted/rejected when my friend (she is black too and is actually ranked even lower than I am) were both accepted. Maybe I wasn’t accepted just because I’m black but I feel like my ethnicity gave me more leeway in the admission process.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected - accepted to UT Austin, Emory, Claremont McKenna, Tulane, Loyola Nola, OU, DePaul, Lewis&clark, USciences. Waitlisted at Pomona. Rejected to none.