**Demographics**: Asian Female, TX, small public magnet school running on a semester system (courses are 1 semester rather than 2)
**Intended major:** Political Science/ Government with a minor in economics
**SAT:** 1450 (planning to take ACT)
**UW GPA:** 4.0
**W GPA:** 4.7 **Rank:** 6/199
**Hooks**: FGLI
**Coursework:** Freshman: AP Human (5), Sophomore: AP Psych (4), Junior: APUSH, AP Physics 1, AP Lang, AP Stats (Pending). Senior: AP Lit, AP Gov, AP macro (next year). Dual credit: Sociology, Public Speaking, College Algebra, Art Appreciation, TX government. Honors anatomy.
**Awards:** Hamilton Scholar, Questbridge College Prep Scholar, 4x Congressionally recognized, 2x County Recognition, City Recognition, Some journalism awards for newspaper (UIL, Best in Texas, TAJE - Superior, 2nd place, 1st place)
**Extracurricular:**
\- Mentor club president - paired 500+ students +organized monthly mixers
\- Co-editor-in-chief of Newspaper
\- Director of events for local voting non-profit - 200+ attendees per event, $10,000 in grants, partnered with city, congress, and county representatives
\- Founder of a policy pitch competition fellowship for non-profit - led over 50 students and connected with winners to continue policy pitch. Distinguished fellow in same org, produced policy brief + proposal for immigration reform.
\- Vice Chair of Mayor's Youth Council - organized city-wide workshops + fireside chats.
\- Federal policy fellow - Drafting a bill and going to DC to lobby my bill about civic education.
\- Criminal Law & Trial Intern - Interned at DC for a week and helped with witness prep for a felony trial, worked with defendant
\- International Intern - Conducted a workshop in Nigeria focused on civic engagement and importance of voting
**Essays**: I would say pretty strong. I enjoy writing essays about myself lol and I've lived through a lot.
**LOR:** Kinda weak. Teachers at my school don't really care as we only have them as a teacher for one semester. I did have one of my teachers write me LOR for Hamilton Scholars and I got in.
**Other:** Immigrant with pending asylum status.
**Schools:** Applying through Questbridge.
Please chance me for Ivies + Ivy pluses + T20