Chance me- A poli sci nerd (Please)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Demographics:

  • Gender: female
  • Race/ethnicity: Asian
  • Residence: Bay Area
  • Income bracket: Middle Class
  • Type of school: Large Public
  • Hooks: none

Potential intended majors:

  • Political Science
  • Economics
  • Data Science at all UC’s except Berkeley

Academics:

  • GPA (UW/W): 3.89/4.39 ( By end of junior year assuming I get all A’s) honors/AP/IB/Dual-Enrollment/etc.:2 AP, 7 dual enrollment, 3 honors.

  • 3 B’s freshmen year, 1 B sophomore year

  • Senior year intended course load: 3 AP’s

Standardized testing:

  • Was unable to take any standardized test because of COVID
  • AP/IB: One 4, one 5

extracurriculars/activities:

  1. Speech and Debate Officer: Raised over 45K+ by hosting tournaments to subsidize competition costs; Taught 100+ high school novices and 50+ elementary school students.
  2. Debate Intern: Intern at a debate league; Managed $20,000+ budget for future tournaments; Led registration, organization, and logistics at state tournaments
  3. Politics Club( Vice President and Founding Member): Designed curriculum on policy and organized political debates for the student body
  4. Intern at : met with local political leaders; networked with congress members and staffers; collaborated with local rotary clubs
  5. Campaign intern: Recruited volunteers, researched and coordinated with 150+ donors, raised over $200,000
  6. Internship at : Pitched new projects ideas, advertised on social media, coordinated with national companies, presented research report on market competition
  7. Captain of Water Polo Team: held team bonding, strategized game plan for team members
  8. Private Debate Coach: only one kid though. LOL

awards/honors:

  • Random speech and debate awards
  • Ik my awards kinda suck so I’d love any suggestion for awards to apply to lol

Essays

  • This is kinda subjective but it will prolly be somewhat decent. I don’t think they are gonna be anything amazing but also not trash

Letters of Recommendation

  • Chem Teacher: 8/10. Written recs for me before and pretty close with her
  • English Teacher: 7/10. Not that close but he is known to write decent recs
  • Counselor: 5/10. Coming from a large public school, I didn’t really get to know my counselor

Schools I’m applying to :

  • All UC’s

  • Cornell ILR

  • Harvard

  • Columbia

  • USC

  • I would love any other suggestion for schools that you might think are a good fit

Additional information:

  • Will elaborate on why I could not take very many APs (counselor messed up my schedule)
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You have a shot at some of the UC’s and maybe Cornell, the others will be somewhat hard tho, but there hard for everyone so good luck