Chance Me Stanford REA '25

Hi! I am a White (Middle Eastern)/ Hispanic female from NYC who is strongly considering REAing to Stanford. My ‘story’ is that I am heavily involved in (with a passion to pursue) entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on social justice and tech.

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  • 4.0 unweighted GPA (94.33/100)
  • 35 ACT (32 Math, 34 Science, 36 English, 36 Reading)
  • 9th and 10th grade Honors wherever possible
  • 11th and 12th full IB with 4 HLs

11th IB courses and grades:

  • Math A&A HL (95)
  • Comp Sci HL (99)
  • Lang & Lit HL (95)
  • History HL (96)
  • Chem SL (95)
  • Spanish SL (94)

Other full-credit summer courses:

  • Stanford Physics (expect a 95+)
  • Advanced Physics with Calculus (expect a 95+)
  • Economics

College For-Credit Classes:

  • UCSD Entrepreneurship + Leadership (B+)
  • Harvard Law & Psych (A)
  • Harvard Business & IP Law (A)

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These are the top 10 that I will be listing:

  1. Founder/ President of a nonprofit that provides toiletries to NYC homeless (2 years) My essay will touch largely on this ^^^ it has 70+ members in 18 schools and has served thousands of people.
  2. Volunteer staff at soup kitchen after regular volunteer-work for a few years (5 years)
  3. Intern at Amazon Web Services to a global product manager, where I helped sales by researching clients and finding ways to improve their experiences (100h over 4 weeks)
  4. Co-Founder/ Co-President of Kids Who Code at my school where I taught middle schoolers basic HTML and CS (2 years)
  5. Spark Tank - startup incubator program where I launched my nonprofit and mentored other entrepreneurs (5 years)
  6. Google CodeNext - learned how AI works, how to code in CSS, C++, made basic AI models (3 years)
  7. UCSD credit-bearing entrepreneurship program where I learned about the structure of businesses and how to network, I was a student and afterwards a mentor (2 years)
  8. Captain of Varsity Volleyball Team and Club VB team where I managed team and outreach events (4 years)
  9. Class Head for Student Council - successfully led Zero-Waste and virtual peer tutor initiatives (3 years)
  10. Math Team (Starter in 10, 11, 12) - besides competing I would explain to members a competition problem every week (4 years)

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  • Diamond Challenge Finalist (startup competition - social innovation track) (international)
  • AIME math competition qualifier (score - 4) (national)
  • 1st place Google CodeNext Hackathon (national/ regional)
  • National Hispanic Scholar (national)
  • ACIS Volleyball Award (league player award)
    (?? should I include I am a 3 time defending psychology trivia champion in NYC instead of volleyball award??)</awards:>

I would say I’m a very good writer, and for my essay I plan to focus on my ability to combine social activism with entrepreneurship. Please let me know what areas I can improve in! Thank you!!!