这个墨西哥女孩deferred

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Decision: Deferred

Objective

SAT I (breakdown): n/a
ACT (breakdown): 35 (36 eng/ 35 math/ 36 reading/ 32 science)
SAT II: n/a
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.71
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 29/846
AP (place score in parenthesis): 5- psychology, lang, music theory, spanish lang. 4- physics, biology, apush, compsci
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics 2, AP Lit, AP Calc BC, AP Gov/Macro, AP French, Orchestra
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National merit Semifinalist, National AP Scholar, member of 2018 TX state champion orchestra

Subjective

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Orchestra (President), Mu Alpha Theta (Secretary), French National Honor Society (Co-President)
Job/Work Experience: I play monthly gigs at a church
Volunteer/Community service: 120+ hours at hospital over summer, 100+ hours of altar serving at church, tutor elementary students
Summer Activities: hospital volunteer/internship/shadowing program
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Common app: 8/10. Talked about being a minority in many different ways (race, gender, etc) and got really philosophical about music and space and time and how it affects my life.
Roommate: 8/10. Very true to myself, showed fun aspects of my personality.
Learning: 9/10. Quirky story about what made me love physics (my intended major).
Meaningful: 9/10. Talked about volunteering at a hospital and how I now see the world through the eyes of all the people I met.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1: Physics teacher: 10/10. Have had him 2 years, am able to talk to him about basically anything.
Teacher Rec #2: Orchestra director: 10/10. Probably talked about how she moved schools the year I became president so I had to take over parts of her job.
Counselor Rec: 7/10. I go to a big public school so counselors do not know people well so I asked my principal to write mine and although he doesn’t know me that well, I think it carries weight that my principal wrote it instead of counselors (?)
Additional Rec: French teacher: 7/10. Have had her 2 years, knows me relatively well because I’m co-pres of FNHS.
Interview: 10/10. Went extremely, overwhelmingly well. Interviewer said I was one of the best candidates he has ever interviewed. Had a genuine conversation and by the end we were making jokes and he was roasting me in a family-like way (lol). Said I make him excited for the future of Stanford and the world.

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Physics
State (if domestic applicant): Texas
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: large public school (~4000 students)
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: upper-middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): race, lgbt, my major is traditionally very male dominated

Reflection

Strengths: submitted arts portfolio for cello, minority, very good interview
Weaknesses: no major national/international awards
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: strong academics and was very personal in my essays, but didn’t have any national rankings or competitions to push me over the edge for acceptance.