u/Different-Knee3500

Hi! Im a junior with lowk mid ECs and gpa and I'd really just love to go to UT, but my dream school is Stanford (unrealistic ik)

Demographics

• Gender: Female
• Race / Ethnicity: Asian
• Residence: Texas
• Income Bracket: Full Pay
• Type of School: Competitive Public

Intended Major:

• Applying to most schools as marketing, others as communications

Academics

• GPA: 4.86 / 4.0 UW, 5.4 / 5.00 W
• Rank: idk, not top 10%
• Number of Honors / AP: All honors, 15 APs by senior year, 5 yrs of Spanish
• Taking 3 APs (macro, environmental science, and gov) through UT high school online

Standardized Testing

• SAT: 1580
• AP: 5s on CSP, Human Geography, World History (all ive taken so far)

Extracurriculars / Activities

1. School's Broadcast Journalism Program, 3 years, Social Media Director (junior year), Senior Producer (next year), produced segments in English in Spanish regarding issues facing the local community, won a couple awards, led social era crew and managed instagram posts gaining 360k+ views
2. Scouting, Eagle Scout, 7 years, Several years of leadership but recently served as Senior Patrol Leader: Led a troop of 30 girls, raised 1k to renovate local church's prayer spiral, Order of the Arrow, Theodore Roosevelt conservation award, other awards i'm forgetting
3. DECA, 3 years, (hopefully VP next year): Marketing communications, ICDC qualifier, the usual deca blurb
4. Starting photography business this summer
5. Self-started initiative working with local nonprofits to make them advertisements for free
6. Varsity Lacrosse, 4 years, Social Chair, team ambassador for national mental health nonprofit, State finalist
7. Job as a receptionist @ local tutoring center
8. Summer programs: IU Kelley Women's Leadership Institute (11th), John Hopkins global health leaders' conference (10th) (I used to want to go into biomed)
9. Clubs in school: Spanish Honor Society, National Honor Society, rocketry (will prob not include these on app)

Awards

1. Journalism awards: produced a segment in Spanish for a show that won National Scholastic Press Association Innovation Pacemaker, State Award for best feature story
2. Silver Congressional Medal for 200+ hrs service, 50+ hours development, and more (11)
3. National Merit Semifinalist
4. Spanish Seal of Biliteracy
5. AP scholar w/ distinction

(Eagle Scout and ICDC qual mentioned in extracurriculars)

Letters of Rec

idk I lowkey do not talk to my teachers because I tend to be super quiet at school but my outside one will be good bc its by my scoutmaster

Essays

Prompt: one hobby your application wouldn't be complete without

How changing my perspective allowed me to go from getting into gardening as a way to make my family appear 'whiter' (guys I can't make this up I was such an embarrassing kid) to viewing it as a way to connect to my dad and give back to the community (I've grown and donated over 400 pounds of produce to a local food pantry) and how that now inspires me to get into marketing and communication because the way people perceive things/how they're presented can help spark change and I want to inspire action :)

poorly worded cause its super late at night but I hope that makes sense!

Ik its kind of chopped pls tell me what my best bets for college are 🙏