1600 SAT Woman in STEM has her heart TOYED with

Demographics

  • Gender: Woman
  • Race/Ethnicity: East Asian
  • Residence: East Coast USA
  • Income Bracket: Upper middle
  • Type of School: Suburban public
  • Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Woman in stem.

Intended Major(s): Astrophysics

Academics

  • GPA: 3.9 uw
  • Rank (or percentile): no rank
  • # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 10 APs, rest honors
  • Senior Year Course Load: calc, mv calc, AP Lit, AP Spanish, AP CSA, AP Psych, AP Chem

Standardized Testing

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

  • SAT: 1600
  • AP/IB: 4s and 5s (mix)

Extracurriculars/Activities

  1. SSP (Summer Science Program) ~8% acceptance rate astro
  2. Women in Astrophysics nonprofit
  3. Sailing
  4. Raised $$$ for sailing nonprofit
  5. Astro Club Officer
  6. CS Club Officer
  7. Top Local Symphony Orchestra (flutist)
  8. Camp counselor

Letters of Recommendation

Probably just okay tbh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Interviews

MIT, Princeton, Northwestern, Harvard, Yale, Middlebury, and Dartmouth.

Essays

Some were better than others but I tried my best!!

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

Acceptances:

  • Cornell (off waitlist)
  • UMD CS

Waitlists:

  • Yale
  • Cornell (I got off yay!)
  • MIT
  • Northwestern
  • Middlebury
  • Harvey Mudd
  • Colby
  • Northeastern

Rejections:

  • Harvard
  • Princeton
  • Columbia
  • Dartmouth
  • UPenn
  • Williams
  • Amherst
  • Brown
  • Duke
  • Stanford (I had grad school legacy lmao)
  • Vanderbilt

Final Thoughts:

After getting into SSP never did I think that I would get rejected from so many schools. Following the many waitlists I got, I was losing hope ong. But in the end, ig the Lord has a plan for all of us fr. Go big red!