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Midwest Physics Girlie applies to 30 schools :D (all Ivies + Stanny + MIT + Caltech + UCs + Duke, etc) Gets some backs and scholarships Early, regular update

3.8+|1500+/34+|STEM

**I had an earlier one but am providing updates here** does anyone know what could have gone wrong?

Demographics

Gender: girl
Race/Ethnicity: Asian
Residence: big midwest state
School: Large public school, sends 15-20 kids to T20s each year
Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): no hooks
Intended Major(s): Physics & Political secondary choice major, but primary was Physics Income: 150K

Academics

GPA/Rank: 4.0/4.0 UW, 4.7 W GPA-
# of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc: 16 APs, 9 DE classes (I also self studied for a few tests)-Senior year course load + special course load stuff: I'm rly good at math and took high math VERY early (like multi freshman yr early) + finished almost all science APs by 12th grade, Senior yr course load was 5 other APs + DE for Math & an extra college class
SAT/ACT: 35 (36 M, 33 S , 35 R, 35 W, 12 Essay) --> only took once as baseline w/o studying and was rly happy with the score even with bad science, so I decided to save time and money and submit this
AP Scores: 7 5s and 5 4s so far, + 5 more tests at the end of this year

Extracurriculars/Activities (being purposefully vague):

Physics research at T5
Physics research at T10 (super niche)
Physics research + research group leader at T20 again
Very very selective NASA internship (3% acceptance? and high top school matriculation) --> published and presented work
UN Work
Very big Nonprofit I started (it actually meant a lot to me, was not for college apps bcs I started it pretty early on + was able to do a lot with it) --> dozens of global chapters, and have reached several hundred thousands of people
Club prez for two clubs combined (STEM) - increased club sizes significantly and started tons of new engineering projects
Club prez for two other clubs combined (STEM) - started & captained this team and we won tons of awards nationally + internationally even though it was our first year + worked on lots of diversity initiatives for underrepresented kids in STEM
Physics paid internship
Founder/prez of local climate org

Notes: I know I have the typical research + nonprofit combo, but I honestly didn't start thinking about apps till this year. Everything I've done means a lot to me and I'm planning on finding ways to continue it through college. --> also, all the research is different from each other, but I'm trying to be vague bcs they are kinda niche.

Awards/Honors (rly nothing big bcs I wasn't a fan of competing in science fairs, ikik bad bcs it could've been so useful but it is what it is):

Presented at tons and tons of Conferences (stand out "award" tbh)
activism award
publication award
national competition award
art award ???? , but I won money and it was related to second major

I didn't include NMSF or AP Scholar., or an of the honors societies, but they prob would've been better than an art award lol when I had nothing else to do with art (Except AP art I guess??)

Essays/LORs:

common app essay: prompt 6, about love for my future passion
Supplementals --> edited these kinda last minute for each individual school tho: anywhere from (6/10) - (9/10). I probably had a few (3-4/10)s in there too bcs Idk how to rate my own pieces. basically reused the same 5-7 essays for every school but I think they were generally pretty good. I do think writing is my strength --> may have had a few spelling mistakes here and there even when I checked 100 times :(
Letters of rec
AP Physics teacher - 8/10 ? --> spoke a LOT about my ECs and I've known him since I came to the school, doesn't write too many so I know it would be special, and the ones he does write go amazing places + got me great internships, but he never had me as a student until senior year so idk how he could've spoken about me there. I did rly good on the first test tho...
AP Lang - 7/10 --> again, I was def a standout student in this class and he knew a lot about my intellectual curiosity, but he's kinda lazy and might have procrastinated on this.Research prof- 4/10 --> English isn't their first language and idk if they've written any of these sorts of letters before
Counselor - 5/10 ? --> at my school counselors aren't that involved in our lives so idk what they know about us except for the form we fill out

Interviews

Harvard (got interview early round) - 8/10 --> super cute and authentic, lady was nice, may have been a bit nervous tho
Princeton - 10/10 --> ughhhh I love Princeton so much but didn't want to get rejected early so I didn't REA there. The interview was rly good and we spent most of the time talking about physics, mostly me explaining to him bcs he was a business major tho. He talked about the business aspects of the physical technologies I wanted to work on. Was very cute, but all my friends from previous years had amazing Princeton interviews and were literally told they were getting in, but didn't get in.
MIT - 7/10 --> nothing bad, just pretty basic. Answered some questions, she learned about me, we had some similarities, and it was done
Penn - 6/10 --> again just pretty basic
Northwestern - 5/10 --> basic interview, interviewer was pretty weird tho ngl
Stanford - 8/10 --> similar to Harvard, a nice cute interview!
Dartmouth - 10/10 --> we had SOOO many similarities and he sent a cute email after
Swarthmore video thing - 4/10 --> eh, it was... ok lets just say that
Did not get: Interviews for Yale or Duke, the two colleges that actually consider it this cycle :D**Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) !!!!:**