Chud Locks in Junior Year and Gets In To College
Demographics
- Gender: male
- Race/Ethnicity: white
- Income Bracket: over $100k
- Type of School: public, feeder to state schools
- Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): none
Intended Major(s): political science
Academics
- GPA (UW/W): 3.93 UW, 4.17 W
- Rank (or percentile): N/A, school doesn't do rank
- # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 13 AP courses, 8 dual enrollment, 9 honors
- Senior Year Course Load: 6 APs and 1 honors, including 3 math APs and 1 physics course lol
Standardized Testing
List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.
- SAT: 1510, only one attempt
- AP/IB: submitted 6 5's and 1 4
Extracurriculars/Activities
List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.
- Worked in state legislature, full time in summers, part time in school year. Lots of legislative research, constituent services, and community outreach work.
- Student Council President
- Founded school's Mock Trial team. Competed in state comp.
- NHS President
- Student advisory board founder/president. Helped make school's phone policy. Got on the news a couple times for it
- 3 year MUN, won 2 international awards
- Political volunteer in community. Helped with local party's campaigns by knocking thousands of doors and developing a youth grassroots movement to volunteer for elections. Also did social media work
- Did a big research paper on a presidential candidate from a century ago
- Invited to do some speeches at local courthouse
Awards/Honors
List all awards and honors submitted on your application.
- MUN intl 2nd place award
- Alternate for Boys Nation
- Mock Trial best lawyer award
- national student council award
- natl merit semifinalist
Letters of Recommendation
junior yr history teacher: 8/10 --> very very involved in his class and showed lots of interest in course content. He also guided me with the research paper.
junior yr english teacher: 8/10 --> he made a very good impression of me
superintendent of school: 8/10 --> showed some personal insights
boss: 10/10 --> showed the depth of my work and my genuine interest in helping others
Interviews
harvard: was ok, he just ran through my resume with me
yale: best I've ever had, super chill and we respectfully talked about politics for a while even tho we disagreed on some stuff
georgetown: I think it went well, but I didn't get a very good connection with the person. I asked if there was anyhting I could do to improve my interview performance at the end of the interview, and she said no, that i was very humble etc. but I'm not sure if she meant it lol
PSU honors: ok, nothing to write home about
washington and lee: was a great time. My only in person interview, as well. I had some trouble getting a seat for us at this coffee shop, but it ended up working out and we had some cool chats
Essays
personal statement: talking about how I could (physically, and emotionally) barely talk when I was little, and about how I grew through it, and I now am interested in political advocacy in order to give a voice to those who couldn't speak for themselves (like little me)
supps: lots of stuff on policy that interest me and how I see it intersecting w my community and such. none of them were great, but none of them were too bad either
Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)
Acceptances:
- american u rd
- northeastern (NYC scholars) rd
- W&M (monroe scholars) rd
- george washington rd
- villanova rd
- washington and lee university (attending!)
Waitlists:
- jhu rd
- upenn rd
Rejections:
- uva rd
- swarthmore rd
- northwestern rd
- harvard rd
- yale rd
- dartmouth rd
- georgetown ea
- duke rd
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Overall I'm super lucky to have gotten into W&L and some of those other schools. For context, I was not locked in whatsoever freshman and sophomore years. I was super demotivated, didn't really care about college and such. End of sophomore year, something changed and I locked in super hard. I would say for anyone out there that its never too late to get your stuff together. You're going to do great as long as you try your hardest.