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Texan applies 5-10 diff majors and bags

3.8+|1500+/34+|Other

 

Demographics

• Gender: Male

• Race/Ethnicity: Asian

• Residence: Texas

• Income Bracket: Upper middle to upper

• Type of School: Large public

• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): none

Intended Major(s): business, sociology, policy, education, "create your own major programs", tons of other niche majors that are only available at one or two schools

Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 3.98

• Rank (or percentile): 2%

• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 19 AP, 5 DE

• Senior Year Course Load: 9 AP, 3 DE (all the DE in summer)

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT: 1550

Extracurriculars/Activities

List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. Nonprofit abt a specific ed policy issue

2. Tutoring job

3. 2 diff research positions, one was educational psych, one was educational policy (aforementioned policy issue)

4. 3 diff clubs with leadership, ed related service clubs

5. Helped start clubs at local middle schools

6. Supply Chain internship

7. Sales Internship

8. Summer camp volunteer + leadership

9. Summer camp volunteer

10. Random hobby

Awards/Honors

List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. national merit

2. nonprofit news feature

3. DECA awards

4. nonprofit accelerator

5. volunteer awards

Letters of Recommendation

No clue: I sent packets with diff interactions/memories to recommenders. Never got a chance to read them so I don't want to guesstimate. However, will note here that I got two humanities letters.

Interviews

Georgetown: rlly rlly great, easily my best, felt like a conversation and was really shocked at the end when my interviewer said that he went through all his required questions

Northwestern #1 (technically a non-evaluative alumni convo but one of my interviewers had a notepad out, so guessing that its at least a lil evaluative): pretty good, felt very informal again, most of it centered around life in Texas (interviewer also from area), and upcoming transition to NU

Northwestern #2 (same format as above): meh, not particularly good or bad, just very standard

Essays

I spent tons of time on essays and showing a good fit to all my majors.

Personal Statement: About a childhood event (nothing super duper serious), how I revisited it in high school, and how I grew to approach it with a new mindset, and then how I now apply that mindset to diff elements of my life/career

If y'all have any questions abt what I wrote for specific supplementals for schools I listed or wanna read any essays just DM me. I also have dipped my toes a bit into college essay advising so would love to work with anyone on their apps.

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

Acceptances:

• Northwestern ED

• Fordham EA w/ full tuition

• IU EA w/ 10k per yr

• TAMU EA w/ 10k per yr

• UTD EA w/ full ride

Had to withdraw (wrote full applications):

• UT Austin

• Michigan

• UVA

• Vanderbilt

• Ohio State

• Hopkins

• Cornell

• Rice

• USC

• Georgetown

• Columbia

Planned on applying (only wrote abt half of each):

• Stanford

• Dartmouth

• Penn

• Duke

• Brown