Hihihihi I really wanted to be chill through this process, but every time I think about decisions, I want to run across the world a few times so could some kind souls chance me??
EA: UNC Chapel Hill (EA)
RD: BC, BU, Bowdoin, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Drexel, Duke, Harvard, Lehigh, NYU (Stern), Northwestern, Pomona, Princeton, Rice, Stanford, UChicago, UPenn (Wharton), UVA, Vanderbilt, Williams, Yale
Ethnicity & Gender: Asian (Chinese) Male
Location/School: Upper middle class community in South Jersey at a large, competitive, public high school
Intended Major: Anthropology
ACT Score: 34 (34E/33M/36R/32S)
Weighted GPA: 6.64 out of 7.0
Class Rank: 28/527 (top 5%)
AP Classes Taken: APUSH, LangComp, Calc BC, Chem, Physics 1, French 4 and 5, LitComp, Psych, Econ
Extracurriculars:
Work during the school year as a janitor, during the summer as a lifeguard (CPR/Lifeguard Certified)
Started my own charity (Raised almost $2,000)
Fraternity Order of Police (FOP) Holiday Party (Chairperson)
Leader of Bridge Tutoring (HS kids go to MS to tutor them)
President of French NHS
Member of our most elite mixed choir
Swimmer for our two-time Public A state championship swim team (current defending state champs)
Honors:
Questbridge Finalist
Horatio Alger National Scholarship Recipient
Scholar for New Jersey Scholars Program (only 39 kids in the state get selected)
Runner Up for state essay contest
Runner up for tri-state essay contest
Bronze medalist in National French Contest (Level 3)
Silver medalist in National French Contest (Level 4)
National Merit Commended Scholar
Numerous NHS’s
Recommendations:
AP Chem Teacher Rec: I’d say 9/10 because his LoR writing skills are amazing
Can’t say for LangComp teacher but she loved me and is the advisor for my charity
Counselor wrote a GLOWING rec 11/10
Essays: I really liked my essays- I spent a lot of time on them and my common app was apart of my QB application so idkkkk
Hooks: First Generation Low Income, Gay??? idk what are actual hooks lmao, honors and essays???
Thank you so much if you got through all of that!