Wash U Class of 2020 Results ONLY Thread

tliu222
Sun, 20 Mar 2016 01:07:48 +0000

Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2390 single sitting 800(CR) 800(W) 790(M)
ACT: N/A
SAT II: 800 Math II 790 Chemistry
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): total of 11 APs by time I graduate - 5 in US History, Macro, Calculus BC, Chemistry, English Lang; 4 in Micro, World History
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Organic Chemistry, AP Spanish, AP Gov Pol, AP Physics I, AP English Lit; Orchestra
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, Journal Publication, few music awards (nothing much)
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): UNICEF president/community service leader; orchestra (first violin); music school ensemble concertmaster; peer tutor/ private tutor; VP of Spanish club; Co-President of another club; member of teen advisory board at library
Job/Work Experience: private tutor
Volunteer/Community service: volunteering at children’s hospital; volunteer in blood center (junior summer); volunteer in chemotherapy treatment center (junior summer)
Summer Activities: volunteering at blood center and chemo center; research in project to correlate gene mutations to leukemias; observation in multiple cancer research labs; shadowed pathologist and oncologist
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 10/10 - wrote about why I was fascinated by medicine
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 9/10 - AP english teacher who really liked me (one of the few students who did well in her class)
Teacher Rec #2: 6/10 - AP chemistry teacher - I didn’t particularly stand out in his class
Counselor Rec: 10/10 - was super close to him (he wrote about why I would make a great physician)
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: went very well - clearly the interviewer absolutely loved Wash U and I guess some of that enthusiasm transferred to me!

Other
State (if domestic applicant): NJ
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: public school - one of the top 10 high schools in NJ (sends ~ 30 kids to ivies each year)
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: F
Income Bracket: ~ 300,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none haha

Reflection
Strengths: showed tons of interest (visited, went to info sessions, interviewed); scores; my essay
Weaknesses: did not write any scholarship essays (none of them really applied to me; one of my teacher recs; lack of awards
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: my test scores and I showed a lot of interest!
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Notre Dame Reilly Program; George Washington University (likely letter); Penn State; Waitlisted: Case Western (did not want consideration for undergrad after not getting PPSP interview); Rejected Northwestern (did not want consideration for undergrad after no HPME interview); still waiting for Duke, Brown, UPenn, Princeton, Stanford, Tufts, UNC, Vanderbilt, and Columbia