east coast private school girl bags two ivies
Hopecore story after battling it out with 119 classmates! The only dress code stipulation is….no college sweatshirts so students don’t jump off a cliff when they see the name of the school that rejected them. Yikes!
Demographics:
* Gender: female
* Race/Ethnicity: white
* Residence: MA
* Income Bracket: upper upper class, not big donators though
* Type of School: small private college prep school. Every student is required to participate in 2-3 seasons of afternoon activity (community service, athletics, arts) as well as have 80 hours of community service by graduation.
* Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): 4x Princeton legacy, 1x sibling legacy at Brown.
Intended Major(s): poli sci/international affairs/public policy/economics
Academics
* GPA (UW/W): My school doesn’t calculate it, but if I had to guess it would be 3.82 UW.
* Rank (or percentile): Top 1/3 of my class of 120.
* \# of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 3 AP classes (Enviro, Stats, Drawing) and Honors History of Ancient Rome
* Senior Year Course Load: Regular Calculus, senior English electives (no honor English courses), AP statistics, regular physics, history of Ancient Rome honors
Standardized Testing
* SAT I: N/A
* ACT: 34 (reading: 36) (english: 36) (science: 36) (math: 29)
* AP/IB: AP Environmental Science (4), AP Drawing (4), AP Lit (5, didn’t take the class), AP Lang (5, didn’t take the class).
Extracurriculars/Activities:
Founder and EIC of school feminist magazine. Published 3 editions, raised 5k for local domestic abuse shelter. 6hr/week, 40week/yr.
ice cream shop worker (5 years). 15hr/week, 20week/yr.
4 year Head witness coach and caption of school Mock Trial team. 2x Massachusetts Bar competition participant and ‘25 statewide runner-up. 3hr/week, 35week/yr.
Summer before senior year, intern under the Chair of the Senate Ways and Means committee, did fiscal research and presented bills to the committee staff. 20hr/week, 8week/yr.
All-female a cappella group president and member for 3 years. Member of classical chamber choir for 4 years. 3.5hr/week, 35week/yr.
Head long term care volunteer at local senior living facility for my junior year winter, 5.5hr/week, 12week/yr.
3 year JV tennis member and junior captain. 8hr/week, 9week/yr.
Actress in school theater program, 4 plays and 3 musical with varying roles in each. 15hr/week, 27week/yr.
3 year Co-leader of Jewish affinity group. 1.5hr/week, 12wk/yr.
Sophomore year service trip to rural Indian village, worked with schoolchildren and raised 8k. 30hr/week, 2week/yr.
Awards/Honors
- Highest Academic Distinction (all four years)
- MassBar competition state runners up, junior year.
- AP scholar with honor, junior year.
- Massachusetts Music Educators association all-district honors choir, junior year.
- Student elected speaker and 1st place capstone project winner at Yale Young Global Scholars summer program the summer before junior year.
Letters of Recommendation
College Counselor: 9/10, we are very close and she thinks the world of me lowk, point off because she also had to work on other student rec letters at the same time so wouldnt be surprised if it was not as good as it could be but no hate!
Junior science teacher: 8/10, she also loved me but we weren’t super close. She was JAZZED when I asked her to write it tho.
2–year history teacher: 10/10. I had him multiple times and he is super close with my grandmother, practically worships the ground I walk on. Love him!
Interviews:
Harvard: my first one, didnt have awesome answers to a couple questions but interviewer was super nice.
Tufts: he had done literally everything I said I wanted to do at Tufts. We started vibing HARDCORE and eventually went off track and were just chatting.
Georgetown: Fantastic, she clearly loved me. Recommended a book and she emailed me several weeks later saying she loved the book!
Princeton: lady was super awk, but we started talking about AI randomly halfway through (because she’s a comp sci professor) and I made it work.
Essays
Personal statement: wrote about my nail color (CND gel #36, “Dangerous Woman”) and my journey through feminism. Best piece of writing Ive ever done, only edited it twice before it was done.
Supplementals: Wrote the Ivies and GTown genuinely day before. Other ones I started much earlier, god only knows why. Hot trash, icl.
Decisions
ED Deferral: Brown ➡️ ACCEPTED RD ✅
Acceptances:
* American University EA (plus significant merit scholarship)
* UMass EA
* Northeastern EA (London Scholars program)
* Villanova University EA
* Lehigh University RD (merit scholarship)
* Tufts RD
* The George Washington University RD (merit scholarship)
* University College London (unconditional)
* Trinity College Dublin (unconditional)
* Kings College London (unconditional)
* St. Andrews (unconditional)
Waitlists:
* Georgetown University RD
* University of Pennsylvania ➡️ ACCEPTED ✅
* Princeton University RD
Rejections*:*
* Boston College RD
* Cornell University RD
* Dartmouth College RD
* Harvard University RD
* Williams College RD
* Amherst College RD
* London School of Economics
Additional Info:
Committed to Brown! Good luck guys, never thought I’d be here td but the process was worth it. Hang in there.