u/Few-Smoke-26

I’ve never really posted before but I thought it might be fun to post my results as I’ve scrolled through this subreddit a few times over the past year. I hope nobody from my school finds this so I’ll probably delete later

Demographics

  • Gender: Female
  • Race/Ethnicity: Biracial (black & white)
  • Residence: urban south
  • Income Bracket: middle class
  • Type of School: private
  • Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.):

Intended Major(s): political science

Academics

  • GPA (UW/W): 4.76
  • Rank (or percentile): top 10%
  • # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 8 APs (school limits per year)
  • Senior Year Course Load: AP: Calc, bio, lit, gov

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

  • SAT: 1540 (780RW, 760M)
  • AP/IB:reported 2 fives and 1 four

Extracurriculars/Activities

List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

  1. theater (cast and crew + multiple positions) (4 years)
  2. piano (played for church and school events)
  3. assistant for youth choir at church (4 years)
  4. President (+other leadership) of well established service club at school + volunteered with org.— led quite a few projects (4 yrs)
  5. Collected chemical data on rivers for my county (4 years)
  6. President and Founder of Food Insecurity club- raised awareness +led food drive (2 yrs)
  7. elected President of board game club that I had been a member of for 3 yrs
  8. Schoolhouse tutor and tutor at schools writing center
  9. Won grant from my city for environmental service project
  10. school ambassador

Awards/Honors

List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

  1. award for top sat in school
  2. collection of smaller awards
  3. academic decathalon state award
  4. shakespeare competition awards - regional and school level
  5. best original score at local film fest

Letters of Recommendation

Bio Honors teachers- probably 10/10,, had very close relationship and was super locked in during her class

Ap Lang teacher- idk but probably good.

Interviews

Many interviews but I don’t particularly care to reflect on them

Essays

Very good probably. I spent a lot of time on them individually and think they displayed the most favorable parts of my character and interests.

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

Acceptances:

  • safety schools
  • state school
  • UCLA
  • UC Santa Barbara
  • UC Santa Cruz
  • Georgetown
  • Brown University
  • Dartmouth College
  • Columbia University

Waitlists:

  • Cornell University
  • Howard University

Rejections:

  • Harvard
  • Princeton
  • Stanford
  • Yale
  • Vanderbilt
  • UC Berkeley

Additional Information:

roar lions.

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