Imma current junior!
Demographics
- Gender: Male
- Race/Ethnicity: White
- Residence: my crib
- Income Bracket: 350k~ish
- Type of School: mid public school in a not-so competitive area - I think we send 1-2 kids to the ivies per year
- Hooks: Handsomeness, Aura
Intended Major(s): Polisci, philosophy
Academics
- GPA (UW/W): UW 3.5, will have a 3.6 MAYBE a 3.7 when i apply (straight bs freshman year, 3 bs sophomore year I highkey think it was bcuz I was unmedicated lol) BUT 4.0 in community college classes. I think my W is like a 4.3-4.4
- Rank (or percentile): chud school doesn't do it, but I'd be low
- # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 8AP, buncha cc classes
Standardized Testing
- SAT: 1580
- AP/IB: one 4 (Physics) rest were 5s
Extracurriculars/Activities
- Publication: Wrote some shit with a professor about civic participation
- Debate: I was cracked at debate, I think I peaked t3 in the nation, won a bunch of tournaments, taught middle schoolers, worked as a freelance coach, taught at summer camps.
- Author: This one is kinda weird but I published my grandfather's autobiography, sold a few hundred copes, it's basically about his childhood as an indian in rural south africa, very interesting stuff.
- Deca: Founded my school's DECA program, qualed to ICDC
- Internship: interned at an AI startup for like 1.5 years, company has pretty high valuation, although this was highkey just nepotism
- MUN: Won a couple awards at big conferences
- Internship: Also interned with a congressman, helped him campaign n shi, very cool guy
- J*b: Worked a paid summer internship at my local town hall
- Another J*b: Worked part time for 3 years at a local ice cream store
- Fortnite: 5k earnings, idk if this goes on the app ngl
- Internship: Basically I worked with a super smart prof to design a tool that analyzes judges decisions using public court dockets, and accurately predict judges decisions, law firms use it now!
- My dog: not sure if I'll add this, but I helped train my dog to be a therapy dog, and we got to hospitals to cheer people up. again idk if its super impressive but its something im super proud of!
- Hustle: Made some bread reselling designer stuff on grailed (like $15k)
Awards/Honors
List all awards and honors submitted on your application.
- Like a bunch of debate awards
- National merit
- Scholastic writing award thing
- Spoke at a local climate conference
- some other stuff idk if its awards though and I'm too tired to write it
LORs
None yet, but im a chill guy hopefully theyll be good
ill get some from teachers
some from employers
proffessors etc
Essays
trust they gonna be fire
List: (I am very open to advice)
VERY IMPORTANT: something to note is that going into the application process, I will have letters of rec from the debate coaches at all of the schools with debate programs, they have some amount of pull in admissions apparently, so I think it'll help
Hail mary:
Harvard (I'm a legacy so fuck it) (debate rec letter)(also we highkey have lots of connections to the 'vard but idk if any of them will help)
Princeton (Also legacy, plus they don't count freshman year GPA which puts me at ab a 3.85)(mom used to work there idk if that matters)
Cornell (Legacy lol)
Columbia (You guessed it, legacy)
big reach:
Umich (Massive debate program, will have lor from coach)
Emory (Debate, letter) (They also dont count freshman year)
Georgetown (Debate, letter)
NYU (Debate, letter) (I like larping in NYC) (Might apply for liberal studies which is 30%)
UCLA (I like the weather) (UC GPA system)
Berk (Idk seems cool)(UC GPA system)(Debate)
Notre Dame (no reason I just fw it)
BC
Mid reach/target
Wake forest (debate, letter)
The rest of the UCs (I love asian girls)
Drexel?
Bentley?
Indiana Kelley
Northeastern (I know what you're thinking, but the semester abroad programs are like 25% acceptance)
Umass Amherst
Pitt
Fordham
Binghamton
uhh idk what else lol
Safeties:
Community college maybe?
ASU!
bro idk
I feel like I'm the type of person who'd really regret not applying to some of these places, even if my chances are comically low. I also feel a lot of pressure around the Ivies because basically my entire family went to an ivy, but I know I won't get it.
ight lmk