I sent my app out to Princeton last night. Also, I’m sending my counselor recommendation, school report, and transcript late because my counselor was really busy last week, so hopefully that won’t be a problem.
State: Iowa
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Income: <20K (single-parent family)
GPA: 4.84 W/3.88 UW
Top 10%
SAT: 2290 (800 CR, 720 M, 770 W E:11)
Coursework:
IB HL Philosophy
IB HL English
IB HL Biology
IB HL Spanish (I’m actually not a native speaker, so this is pretty difficult for me.)
IB SL Math Studies (I took Calculus junior year, but got stuck in this senior year because of a conflict…)
IB SL World History
IB Theory of Knowledge
Awards:
1st place TSA State 2014 (same event both years)
1st place TSA State 2013
8th in nation at FBLA Nationals 2014
2nd place FBLA State 2014
3rd place FBLA State 2015
3rd in nation at national journalism competition 2014 [team]
10th in nation at national journalism competition 2013 [team]
2nd place in a pretty unknown national-level essay contest
ECs:
Boys State
- Elected State Treasurer
- Elected to State Political Platform
Some relatively selective summer camps.
FBLA Treasurer (9, 10, 11, 12)
- I’ve been pretty involved in this throughout the years. I’ll keep this short since I’m writing on a phone, but I’ve helped to organized a lot of different fundraisers, community events, made videos, etc.
Entrepreneurship Club Vice President (10, 11, 12)
Journalism Team Editor (10, 11, 12)
TSA Secretary (10, 11, 12)
Economics Club Co-Founder (10, 11, 12)
- Helped to organize several stock market games in which proceeds went to local charities.
I take a college class on entrepreneurship, and pitched my idea to a local business financing hub with a calculated business plan that ended up being one of the best presented, out of attending adults as well. They invited me to a special event where I present my business plan again among more professional people in a couple months to get financing for the idea. I don’t know what’ll come from this, but I talked about this a bit in my essay that asked to elaborate on an extra-curricular.
I don’t want to explain this in very good detail so as to remain anonymous, but I started a program to spread knowledge of how to create a business that ended up being somewhat successful.
Varsity XC (10, 11, 12)
- Attended several 5Ks and a half-marathon, and I might talk about running in my essays.
Track & Field (11, 12)
I’m most interested in business, or perhaps politics, and I feel like I’ve communicated that interest pretty well. My Common App essay was about growing up with my father, a woodworker, and what I’ve learned from him and how I decided to go to a better high school, and then my supplement essay was about my experience at Iowa Boys State. They were both written very well, but probably somewhat cliche? What do you think my chances are?
