Major - Data Science/Stats/Maths
Indian intl
GPA:
CBSE board
9th: 9.4/10
10th: 95% (10/10)
11th: 88.6% (Science stream) (11th CBSE is known for its heavy grade deflation and colleges take it into account)
Rank: School doesn’t rank
ACT: 34 ( 35,34,31,36) , 35 Super Scored ( 35,34,35,36)
SATII: Predicted 800 Math 2, 780+ Physics
ECs/Awards:
Own political blog with fairly high readership and a decent amount of money through Adsense
Interned with state Government in which I drafted questions that were asked in the Parliament and did a lot of groundwork (analysed implementation of policies, mapped areas that were previously unmapped) among other things
Interned at a VR startup - Created 3 different pilot projects, logged and debugged 100+ bugs in the software, created a product manual, struck a deal for product testing in quite a few schools
Co-founder of an online magazine for students; managed 31 writers; increased readership; edit and write etc
Vice-President for Education at a technological NGO that aims to provide free tech education; Started a few initiatives of my own; In charge of all content etc
Vice President of School’s Debating Club; won in a good amount of competitions; will organise a massive inter-school event( so will have a lot of details about what exactly I did) (School allows only 1 leadership position)
Online Writing (write on society, politics, business and technology at quite a few online websites)
Digital Marketing for Medical Animations Company (Paid) - Write articles to attract customers, help with SEO, marketing etc
For 9th and 10th, I was thinking of writing about my heavy involvement in my school’s entrepreneurship and Environment clubs and I have done significant enough work to fill out all 150 characters. So should I put it or it will look like filler?
Awards -
Distinction in Grade 5 communication Skills Trinity College London
Gold Medal from school for consistent academic performance for 7 years
First place in a national environment quiz organised by the govt
Merit in Grade 4 Guitar
I can’t think of any other significant awards I have won but if I don’t have anything else by the time I apply I’ll put down a couple of national MUNs/Debates that I have won
Current List -
Reaches - Stanford, Yale, UPenn, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, Berkeley, UChicago, Duke
Matches - Vanderbilt, Tufts, CMU (Dietrich for stats ml), UCLA, UT Austin, GTech, UMich
Safeties - UTD, Drexel
DONT need aid
I don’t need many safeties because I would prefer to study in Canada if I don’t get into any of my reaches/matches
Thanks