Decision: AcceptedObjective:SAT I (breakdown): 2320 (800wr, 770m, 750cr)转载ACT:35SAT II: 800 math 2, 790 physics, 750 U.S. history, 740 literatureUnweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/~600AP (place score in parenthesis): Statistics (5), U.S. History (5), U.S. Gov (5), Bio (5), BC Calc (5), Comp Sci (5)IB (place score in parenthesis): N/ASenior Year Course Load: Honors Psych, Wind Ensemble, AP Chem, AP Physics C, AP English (both lit and lang), Diff EQ (community college), Microecon (cc), Macroecon (cc)Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Not sure if this counts, but 1st in state/honorable mention at nationals for PTA Reflections (art contest), usual stuff like National Merit finalist, AP scholar w/distinctionSubjective:Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Video Club (founder/pres), Math Club (pres), Mu Alpha Theta (pres), marching band (saxophone), Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony I (1st part)Job/Work Experience: science research intern/peer mentor at Cleveland Clinic, AASI-I certified snowboard instructor at local ski resortVolunteer/Community service: few hundred hours, 3 major independent projects (raising >$10,000)Summer Activities: Cleveland Clinic (see above), relaxing, skateboarding/longboarding, urbexEssays: Common App: wrote about urbex (10/10)Yale Supp: wrote about filmmaking (9/10)Yale Short Takes: tried to be humorous (8/10)Teacher Recommendation: English teacher: from junior year, know her extremely well (would call her a personal friend) (10/10)Math Teacher: from junior year, less personal than English, but still fantastic (8/10)Counselor Rec: made an effort early on to get to know her well. My school has ~2600 kids and most people only seeing their counselor a couple times in their entire high school career. (9/10)Additional Rec: Volunteer group advisor, great but probably not outstanding (6/10)Interview: AMAZING, we really "clicked". She told me we would talk for 45 min, but we ended up getting carried away and talked for almost 2 hours. The Yale interview single-handily swayed me away from Harvard and cemented Yale as my 1st choice! (11/10)OtherState (if domestic applicant): OhioCountry (if international applicant): USSchool Type: large, sleepy, midwestern public (~2600, maybe 1 student gets into an Ivy every few years)Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)Gender: MaleIncome Bracket: upper middle, some financial aidHooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Yay anti-hook for being an Asian male! :PReflectionStrengths: Unique essays, activities, recs, and interviewWeaknesses: SATs, no major national awardsWhy you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: see strengths. Interview most likely was the tipping factor!Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Columbia, Dartmouth, Ohio State UniversityWaitlisted: Penn (Wharton), Carnegie Mellon, PrincetonRejected: Harvard, MITWaiting on results from NYU, not that it matters!General Comments: PINCH ME, I'M DREAMING!!! Thanks all of you for the congratilations. I am sharing more info here. We think the interview is the most tricky part. The interview from H was Ok and he said he will recommend my son. But this interviewer is a newly graduated and doing this kind of work first time. He only interviewed my son. My son got deferred from H in Dec and then rejected. The interviewer from MIT said he will not recommend my son because he thinks my son is not that kind of nerdy MIT student with very good academics. He is rejected from MIT. The interview from Y and Dartmouth were very good and last much longer than planned.Both interviewers are having many years of experience of interviewing potentical students and they said they will highly recommend my son. Then he got likely letter from D in early March and get admitted to Y.The interview from P was average and he is waitlisted. No interview required from Columbia, UPenn or CMU. We feel there is some luckness that if you are the type of person which interviewer like, you have much higher chance. So applying to more colleges will increase your chance to meet your type of interviewer, but requires more time to spend on writing essay. We have a lesson learned that if we begin to prepare some general topic draft essays, it would help. facebook和college confidential
