Texan applies 5-10 diff majors and bags
Demographics
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Gender: Male
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Race/Ethnicity: Asian
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Residence: Texas
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Income Bracket: Upper middle to upper
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Type of School: Large public
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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
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GPA (UW/W): 3.98
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Rank (or percentile): 2%
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# of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 19 AP, 5 DE
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Senior Year Course Load: 9 AP, 3 DE (all the DE in summer)
Standardized Testing
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SAT: 1550
Extracurriculars/Activities
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Nonprofit abt a specific ed policy issue
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Tutoring job
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2 diff research positions, one was educational psych, one was educational policy (aforementioned policy issue)
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3 diff clubs with leadership, ed related service clubs
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Helped start clubs at local middle schools
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Supply Chain internship
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Sales Internship
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Summer camp volunteer + leadership
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Summer camp volunteer
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Random hobby
Awards/Honors
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national merit
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nonprofit news feature
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DECA awards
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nonprofit accelerator
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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:
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Northwestern ED
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Fordham EA w/ full tuition
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IU EA w/ 10k per yr
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TAMU EA w/ 10k per yr
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UTD EA w/ full ride
Had to withdraw (wrote full applications):
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UT Austin
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Michigan
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UVA
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Vanderbilt
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Ohio State
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Hopkins
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Cornell
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Rice
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USC
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Georgetown
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Columbia
Planned on applying (only wrote abt half of each):
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Stanford
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Dartmouth
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Penn
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Duke
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Brown
