white guy with a 36 goes to state school
Demographics
- Gender: Male
- Race/Ethnicity: white
- Residence: WI
- Income bracket: ~200k
- School: Large semicompetitive public
- Hooks: none
Intended Major(s): Mechanical Engineering
Academics
- GPA/Rank (or percentile): 3.98 uw (school does not weight)
- # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 10 AP, 1 DE, 6 Honors
- Senior Year Course Load: DE Multivariable Calculus, AP Physics 2, AP Gov, AP Chem, AP CSA, honors engish elective, art electives
Standardized Testing
List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.
- ACT: 36
- AP/IB:
- CSP: 4
- World History: 5
- Calc AB: 5
- US History: 5
- Environmental Science: 5
- Calc BC: 5
- English lang: 5 (self study)
- Chemistry: 5
- US Gov: 5
- CSA: 5
- Physics C E&M : 5 (self study)
- Physics C Mech : 5 (self study)
- English lit : 4 (self study)
- PSAT: 1520
Extracurriculars/Activities:
-Varsity sport #1
-Varsity sport #2
-Summer job(kitchen work)
-offseason training for sports
-job #2(yard work)
-random club
-random club
Awards/Honors:
National Merit Semifinalist/Finalist
AP Scholar w/ Distinction
Essays/LORs/Interviews: (briefly reflect/rate)
Personal statement I thought was solid but not anything special, I probably should've spent more time reflecting in it
Purdue Essays were strong because I could show interest in fye
other essays were lowk kinda generic so yeah
LOR:
Physics teacher for 2 years: 8/10. He helped me change a lot in the class for the better and I also did really well.
Calc BC teacher: 6/10. Didn't really have anything special to say about me but was generally positive and appreciative of me.
Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)
- Acceptances: (list here):
- UW Madison EA (Committed
- Purdue EA
- Minnesota EA
- Waitlists: (list here)
- Rejections: (list here)
- GT EA
Additional Information:
- Cost was really an important factor in choosing, I would've had to pay a good amount of Purdue myself. I also really limited the number of schools I applied to based on how expensive they were likely to be. If I had gotten merit-based aid from Purdue I probably would've gone there.
- I also didn't really think about college/what I wanted to major in until junior year, and I had some social anxiety/lack of knowledge about them earlier that prevented me from joining some of the larger clubs/teams which was clearly the weakness in my application