Admitted to CMU! Stats and Results
Demographics
- Gender: NB (applied F to some schools)
- Race/Ethnicity: white
- Residence: US urban (competitive public hs)
- Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): n/a
- Intended Major(s): econ
Academics
- GPA/Rank (or percentile): unranked 5.18w (1 B (phys c sem1) else As)
- # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 10 APs
- Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats/CSA/Phys C/Lit/Micro, postcalc math, humanities elective
Standardized Testing
- SAT/ACT: 36 ACT (36 all subscores)
- AP/IB: 5s on 5 aps (incl BC)
Extracurriculars/Activities: (1) t5 national in academic competition unrelated to major (+ organizational work), (2) bridge program for career math/cs, (3) paid arts summer internship summer before senior year, (4) robotics 1y, (5) president of moderately active academic club unrelated to major, (6) camp counseling, misc. sports
Awards/Honors: National Merit semifinalist, state-level awards for 4 years in mentioned academic competition
Essays/LORs/Interviews: supps uniformly written 1-2 days before deadline (in some cases in 2 drafts & in nearly all no feedback from other people), commonapp received mixed feedback from friends ("literaryish but not a good personal statement"). also i was writing my commonapp essay up until jan1
LOR from english teacher who i loved but whose class i performed poorly in in terms of executive functioning (4/10 probably), CS teacher whose I worked ahead in (7/10 probably), and state organizational head in mentioned academic competition who had previously coached me (submitted to those schools that accepted supplemental rec letters) (9/10 probably he likes me and talks effusively in general)
Interviews - Yale bad (like talking at a brick wall), Princeton my interviewer called me "fantastic" but it happened the day after they stopped seriously considering interviews.
Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)
- Acceptances: RD rutgers hc, RD Reed, RD Skidmore, RD Vassar, RD Carnegie Mellon (attending) (applied behavioral econ), RD NYU, RD George Washington
- Waitlists: UMich EA (deferred)
- Rejections: Yale REA (deferred), Brown RD, Pomona RD, Princeton RD, Columbia RD
Additional Information: a bunch of my top choices ended up being schools i applied to on a whim (i decided to apply to nyu day of at 11:50pm because there was no supplemental essay and my friend who goes there told me to). this is bad. given that there are very few midsized liberal arts-ish colleges i probably should have applied to all of them (looking at you tufts,, harvard,,). uhh lowkey ed brown everybody i think they spend like 5 hours a week on schoolwork