One more - Indian Male

Decision: Accepted


Pick one:


Pratt School of Engineering

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): (didn't submit) 640,660,640 (R,M,W)
• ACT: 34 composite, 36 math, 34 english, 31 reading, 31 science, 10 writing
• SAT II: 720 physics, 760 math ii
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.956
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/476
• AP (place score in parenthesis): APHG (4), APWH (4), APCalcBC (5), APUSH (5), APPsy (5), APLang (5), APPhyCMech (4), APPhyCE&M (3)
• IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
• Senior Year Course Load: AP macro (semester class), ap us gov (semester class), ap bio, ap chem, ap lit, ap comp sci, leadership (sga), institute of engineering class (for magnet program), calc iii (at local comm coll, over summer), speech and oral communications (at local comm coll, over summer), differential equations (at local comm coll)
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Honor, Valedictorian

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Mu Alpha Theta (Founding VP, coach for alg2 (for 2 years) & calculus (for 1 year), Student gov assoc (leadership student), national honor society, academic team (co-captain)
• Job/Work Experience: 2 internships (one in engineering, one in business), retail work exp
• Volunteer/Community service: tutoring, school event coordination and planning
• Summer Activities: internships, classes
• Essays: strong engineering essay (created a basic strong essay and then just changed the college name and one paragraph for every school), i dont remember the other essays haha
• Teacher Recommendation: strong probably/hopefully haha
• Counselor Rec: ^look above
• Additional Rec:
• Interview: yes, went well, interesting

Other

• Intended Major(s): electrical and computer engineering
• State (if domestic applicant): FL
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: large public
• Ethnicity: indian
• Gender: male
• Income bracket (if applicable): <40,000
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): 

Reflection

• Strengths: outside participation, course load, doing as much as i possibly could
• Weaknesses: test scores a bit haha
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: i have no clue really. college admissions are weird. you could get rejected at a school but accepted at a comparable school
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted: brown, duke, uva, rose hulman, miami (fl), nyu, usc; waitlisted: u chicago; rejected: harvard, mit, caltech, cornell, stanford, dartmouth, yale, princeton, u penn, columbia, northwestern, carnegie mellon

General Comments: College admissions are kind of unpredictable. I thought I was a shoo-in for CMU but I was rejected. On the other hand, I thought that I was too application-based for theoretical U-Chicago but I got waitlisted there, not rejected. Don't feel bad if you didn't get into your dream school, because everything happens for a reason, just like Pangloss from Candide says haha. The only thing you can really do is advertise yourself as best as you can and hope for the best. Write strong, emotional essays that reveal who you are. Go to interviews if you can. Just do as much as possible but have fun too. Once you hear back from all your schools, visit them to decide where you want to go. I had to visit both Brown and Duke or else I wouldn't be able to choose. Ultimately, I chose Duke and I'm happy and excited for my four (maybe five for BSE/MSE 4+1 program) years there.

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