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Demographics

 

Gender: Male

 

Race/Ethnicity: Korean

 

Residence: Florida

 

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

 

Intended Major(s): I applied as a different major at every school, but generally a dual major (STEM + public policy or poli sci)

 

Academics

 

GPA/Rank (or percentile): 4.0, Ranked 1st

 

# of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 12 APs

 

Senior Year Course Load: Moderately rigorous (3 APs)

 

Standardized Testing

 

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

 

SAT/ACT: 1590, one sitting

 

AP/IB: All 5s on all 12 exams

 

Extracurriculars/Activities: 

 

Leadership team of a NPO, lobbied at congress for a bill, did a lot of local community service

 

Intern at another NPO, lobbied for a few statewide bills, canvassing, outreach

 

Research Intern at a national lab (cold emailed), pretty famous/reputable, CS/environment

 

Worked for a poli sci NPO, mostly volunteering

 

Lab assistant at a local university lab, environment related

 

city-wide leadership position, lots of advocacy and outreach

 

Running (ran 2 marathons)

 

8+9. School leadership positions

 

Awards/Honors: 

 

Prestigious political science program

 

Another prestigious political science award

 

STEM Olympiad (top 300)

 

6x AIME qualifier

 

Essays/LORs/Interviews: 

 

CommonApp, 10/10: everyone who read it loved it. I think it was super unique and made all the difference.

 

Essays 10/10: very cohesive profile, with clear passions and goals. also pretty unique i would say.

 

LOR 1, Humanities: 10/10, such a unique and well written LOR. i've known this teacher for all 4 years of HS and we are super close

 

LOR 2, STEM: 8/10, very average but still strong

 

Harvard Interview: 10/10, talked for 2 hours, such a nice dude

 

Princeton Interview: 3/10. didn't ask me any questions, such a short and awkward interview

 

Stanford interview 6/10, got grilled but answered everything

 

MIT: 8/10, the guy was pretty nice, very average but pleasant conversation

 

No Yale interview :(

 

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

 

Acceptances: (list here):

 

Stanford

 

Princeton (Deferred -> Accepted)

 

Harvard

 

Yale

 

Wharton

 

Brown

 

Columbia w/ Likely

 

UF

 

FSU

 

Waitlists: (list here)

 

MIT

 

Rejections: 

 

NONE!