This is a long and weird post. Life is long and weird. Get used to it.
At the moment my two top schools are the LSE and Yale. I will likely apply EARLY ACTION to Yale so I can avoid the soul crushing carp farming that is regular decision, while also keeping my options open for Britannia.
My mom worked at Yale for a while and we actually still own a house in New Haven, not sure if that helps at all, but it does mean I’ve seen the mean streets of Connecticut (no joke we lived 5 minutes from campus and the house across from us was a meth lab). I’d appreciate a chance, I’m evidently at the stage where I’m writing these applications so not much can change, if people can ever really change… Anyways, thank you for your time, you’ll never get it back.
GPA: 4.4 weighted, ~3.75 unweighted
(highly competitive school; #1 public school in state) (multiple students get into to each ivy regularly, including Cornell if you count them as an ivy, and they do have lots of ivy)
Tests: ACT 34C: 36 reading, 36 English, 34 math, 29 science, 12 Writing (wrote an essay about how football facilitates eugenics/ natural selection, I honestly believe a neo-nazi graded it the whole thing was a joke because I got an 11 the first time and wasn’t taking it seriously… Really concerning stuff)
770 SAT Subject WH, InDuS RIver VAlLeY cIvIliZaTiOns
800 SAT Subject US History, Manifested that destiny
I could take Lit and would likely get a 800
Born in Europe, live in the south; white male (hope my diversity is a hook), Kinda Jewish if that counts, look the part, too.
AP scores:
(Sophomore year)
World History: 5
AP Stat: 3, and I cheated thanks to a fire alarm. Jesus I’m bad at math.
(took these junior year, obviously a very humanities skewed student, I know…
Science scares me)
Human Geo: 5
Apush: 4 (How, like how)
Gov: likely 5
Art History: 5 (totally BS’d it)
Language: 5
European History: 5
Taking AP Psych and AP Lit next year. Still not sure about APES, would it help?
I took all APs my junior year so I hope that stands out. I have no intention to take calculus (does that hurt?), that’s why I took stat sophomore year after taking precalc.
I know it may look like I’m good at math, but in middle school they sent me to a special program for “gifted students” that allowed my to skip a few years of math. Long story short, like a history of substance abuse, those years caught up to me and by freshman year I had to come to terms with that fact that, despite what my teachers said, I was not the next Hawking of Newton.
Number confuse and haunt me.
Extracurriculars:
Sports:
Varsity Lacrosse and Varsity Soccer (2nd in state and 4th in state respectively), might try to walk on for soccer
Club soccer for 10 years
Writing:
Wrote a play that got selected along with 100 others, out of 800, to be performed at a festival
Short story published in a literary magazine
Write for School newspaper on mostly political and global things, had an essay about Zionism rejected, wonder why
Clubs:
Co-president quiz bowl, selected for National All-Star Academic Tournament team to represent my state, placed highly at nationals with school (realized that despite reading history textbooks in my past time I wasn’t that smart or good at history, i have no ego, I am the least egotistical person you will ever meet nobody can beat me)
Member of history bowl, finished 2nd in state history bee, qualified and participated at national tournament
All in all I hate my school and the people who collect “leadership positions” like boy scout badges, so I’ve mainly steered clear.
Internships:
State Legislative Page (taking them down from the inside)
Intern with state democratic party doing data management (Yep)
Internship with non profit in New York City that dealt with connecting policy makers with policy experts (Also yep)
College Essay:
Topic: I’m a good writer I’ll figure something out.
Recommendations:
Both very good, from my European history teacher and my civics teacher (also advisor for both of my clubs); both knew me quite well and were close to me (but like everyone they eventually left)
Potential major: Political Science, History, etc – still mostly undecided, might just join an acapella team and write a book about it and make a living that way.
Also a tricitizen, US/CA/GB, does that in any way benefit me besides officially being one of the whitest people ever.