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
- SSP (Summer Science Program) ~8% acceptance rate astro
- Women in Astrophysics nonprofit
- Sailing
- Raised $$$ for sailing nonprofit
- Astro Club Officer
- CS Club Officer
- Top Local Symphony Orchestra (flutist)
- 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!