Hi guys, thanks for taking the time to look at this thread. I know chances are subjective, but it’ll be nice to hear some feedback while waiting for early results to come out. My entire application was focused on international affairs and a goal towards public service (I want to go into government), as well as basic social science and history. Anything in that huge realm is fricking fascinating.
Stats:
SAT: 2310; 750 Critical Reading, 770 Mathematics, 790 Writing (super-scored)
SAT IIs: 800 World History, 790 Literature, 800 Math 2
PSAT: 228
GPA: 4.00 UW, 4.41 W
Class Rank: top 2% of high school class, but school doesn’t rank.
Ethnicity: White (Ukrainian)
Course load (AP score in parentheses):
Freshmen Year - AP Microeconomics (5, self-studied), AP Macroeconomics (5, self-studied)
Sophomore Year - AP Biology (4), AP Euro History (5), AP Calc AB (5), AP Human Geography (5, self studied), Spanish 6/7/8, Honors Humanities 1/2
Junior Year - AP Physics C, AP Calculus BC, AP Psychology, AP US History, AP English Language, AP Comparative Government (self-studied), AP World History (self-studied)
Senior Year - AP Chemistry, AP Stats, AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Art History (self-studied)
Extracurriculars:
- Founder/ Editor in Chief: A Global-News Magazine -made the entire magazine from scratch, and lead a team that releases a new issue analyzing world events each week.
- Co-President/ Delegate: Model UN -bunch of best delegate awards
- Competition Organizer, Leader, and Team Member -got our school involved in several economic and foreign affairs competitions that led to VERY high national rankings and in most instances first place
- Russian Teacher: Elementary School -taught kids my native language (my parents immigrated to the U.S. from Israel and Ukraine) over 3 months.
- Was mentored by a history professor, and became a principal author on a research paper about South American nationalism in the 18th century.
- Peer Tutoring Board Member -helped revitalize our school's peer tutoring program
- Interned at a university's foreign affairs program -set up and lead the yearly volunteer drive and helped plan for the big conference for high school students they host annually
- Writer/Editor For School’s Newspaper (Opinion Section) -somewhere 20 social commentary articles
- Volunteer for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign -but since I'm in California (unimportant/ always Democrat state), I didn't really do much.
- Region-Wide and School Chapter Board Member: Interact -organize a ton of our volunteer events and have gotten about 500 hours myself participating in the events
- Play jazz piano recreationally -no awards and nothing special though :)
- Play grand strategy games like Total War Empire -it sounds weird but it was some of the best times of my high school life.
Summer Programs/Internships: (all scholarship paid)
This cultural exchange at Princeton University with Japanese students, great experience
Boys State- I was elected governor
Volunteering:
Interact (500 hrs)
Peer Tutoring (100 hrs)
Awards:
Whatever the highest AP award is
A lot of character awards
MUN stuff
A huge national speech victory; I don’t do speech and debate because of my schedule (plus MUN’s better), but it was still a fun tournament.
Volunteering Awards (typical Presidential stuff)
My Info
Gender: M
Race: White
Income Bracket - 160 to 180k
Hooks: Ukrainian background?
School Type - Suburban Public
School size - 2,000 students and growing
Recommendations:
Two extremely well written recs from teachers I’ve known for many years, plus one from my piano teacher. She’s a Donald Trump supporter so the entire letter was about how we have these long-winded, awesome conversations about politics and disagreements.
