hey guys! not gonna lie, i’ve always wanted to make one of these, so here it is 
gpa: 3.6 UW 
but 4.1 W – one thing i’m gonna mention is my school is regarded as a very academically challenging one (at least locally, idk about nationally)
act: 35C (35E, 34M, 35R, 36S, 30 essay)
sat iis: chemistry: 800, math ii: 790, spanish (non-native): 700
ap scores: Chemistry (5), US History (4), Spanish Language (4)
Senior Courses: Chinese I Honors, AP Spanish Literature, AP Computer Science, English 12, AP Physics C, AP Calculus AB
note that i’ve taken a lot of honors courses–as many as i could (9 honors, 3 ap before sr year)–and only missed the opportunity of taking ap euro (not in the super advanced math track though : //)
Ranking: none, school doesn’t rank
Ethnicity: Half-white, half-Chinese
State/Country: Ohio
Income: rather not specify but cost is not an issue
Legacy: upenn, nyu (both grad school legacies though)
Awards: National Spanish Exam Level II-IV (Silver medal, Bronze medal, Silver medal), Science Olympiad medals Regionals, a variety of local bowling awards, National Merit Semifinalist
Specifics
Extracurriculars
-Self-Studying Japanese (sophomore-senior year, 2 hrs/week all year. Self studied Japanese with textbooks and websites. Attended a language camp at Ohio Northern University after 10th grade. Could maybe test out of the first semester of a beginning college Japanese course)
-Theater team (won’t disclose name) Lead Critic (sophomore-senior year, 5 hrs/week, 10 weeks/year. It is a club where up to 9 members see and review other high school plays/musicals. I see 6/year. Good reviews are published online; excerpts of 3 of mine and one of my full reviews have been published online)
-Bowling Team Varsity Member (sophomore-senior year, 17 hrs/week, 24 weeks/year. Member of school bowling team and spring bowling league. Team went to Districts twice, placed 2nd at sectionals last year where I placed 2nd individually.) – didn’t participate much senior year (subbed for guys team a little)
-Science Olympiad (sophomore-senior year, 5 hrs/week, 20 weeks/year. club co-head senior year. Team does decently, I have won individual medals at Regionals. As club head I assign events and coordinate stuff)
-Worked as Precinct Election Official (senior year, 22 hrs/week, 1 week/year. I worked as a PEO for the election on Nov 8th [one of the people who help people vote if that makes sense] and get paid)
-National Spanish Honors Society (junior-senior year, we don’t do anything but get this cool award status and a candle)
-Academic Team (sophomore-senior year, 3 hrs/week, 15 weeks/yr. Like quiz-bowl/Jeopardy. Locally my team does well (last year undefeated))
Summer Programs:
-Attended classes for college credit at Harvard last summer (judge me for it I don’t care). Took Linguistics and Principles to Macroeconomics, got A- in both. Had a total blast!
Recommendations:
-Chemistry teacher: Had her for Honors and AP Chemistry. She excitedly offered to write me a rec letter.
-Computer Science teacher: Had him for 2 years (Programming I and II, AP Computer Science). His teacher comments are always nice and he knows me outside of the classroom (in bowling).
-Spanish teacher: Had him for three years (freshman, junior, and senior years). Knows me pretty well, asking him for my Georgetown application
-Counselor: I think it’d be pretty good. We’ve talked a lot about stuff and he said he was gonna ask some other teachers (like my physics teacher) for some quotes. He told me that my chem and compsci teacher’s recs are pretty good : )
Essays:
common app: accurately describes what I want it to? how classes i’ve taken helped strengthen my self-confidence in myself–i’ve made a lot of progress
supplements: definitely some of the best writing i’ve done! i think they’re a lot smoother than my common app (comes with practice writing 
) and my why school essays are very school specific
Prospective major:
linguistics (marked as first choice), computer science (marked as second if there is a second option), east asian languages and cultures (marked at third choice if there is one)
schools:
ohio state ea – accepted to honors college, with maximus scholarship
northeastern ea – accepted to college of computer and information science, with dean’s scholarship!
university of southern california – no invitation to interview for scholarships but i wasn’t expecting an interview :")
boston university
brandeis
columbia – had an interview that i think went decently well? it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t the best
harvard – haha
nyu
northwestern
pomona
stanford – had an interview that i think went pretty well
university of chicago – mentioned in update thing that they’re my top choice as of now
upenn – had an interview that i think went amazingly well!!
georgetown – interview was pretty good
ucla
uc berkeley – got letter of rec request and sent in my chem and compsci teachers’ letter of recs
uva
end notes: i know i applied to a TON of reaches (kinda going for a shotgun approach : //). recently i sent in some updates on science olympiad: my team made the state competition!!! it’s a pretty big deal for us, since it’s the first time in four years (and second time EVER) we’ve made state 
i also placed 3rd in an event at the regional competition.
i’m not really making this in hopes of being chanced by others – i have a chance thread here (http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1952395-predict-my-results-a-bunch-of-well-known-schools-p1.html) for that. rather, i’m making this so other people can be inspired? learn from? get something out of my college admissions journey.
thanks for reading and feel free to comment if you’d like (ask for info or anything, i don’t care), and let me know if i forgot to include anything