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Demographics: White Trans Male living in WV, in a very low income and rural community. We rank super low in everything and I think I want to tie that in based on how it affected me growing up. low income (>16k a year) I want to major in government or political science and minor in either sociology or journalism.
ACT: 33 (may take again because my math was a 29. 35 in English and reading and 34 in science)
SAT (not sending) 1350
gpa- currently a 4.14, will be a 4.3 or so whenever I graduate.
Our valedictorian system is really weird and isn’t based off GPA, But I’ll be top 5% at the very least.
CLASSES- my freshman and sophomore years I wasn’t taking very hard classes just because I had a different career part at the time and I wanted to go into digital design and marketing, so I won’t include my classes for those years but I’ll mention I’ve always been one math class ahead of the majority of my grade.
JUNIOR YEAR- Spanish 2 APUSH APGOPO APLIT Intro To Criminal Justice (Dual Enrollment, 5.0) TRIGONOMETRY Anatomy
Planned Senior Year APBIO AP HUMAN GEO AP GOPO COMPARATIVE AP LANG AP WORLD There will be more online ones that will be taken during my second semester, our school just recently changed our system so we aren’t sure what ones will be offered. -this is all the ap’s our school has plus ap world is online, we used to have psych tho.
———ESSAYS——— Writing is 100% my strong suite, and I’ve had a lot happen to me in my life that that I could 100% tie into my passions. I have my personal statement done as well and it’s been through like 4 people.
——LORS—— (Planned)
APLIT Teacher- We’re super close and I’ve had her write multiple letters for me before for summer programs, QuestBridge, etc. I’ve also excelled in her class because I’m pretty good at Literature and writing, and she’s told me she thinks super highly of me. She knows me well enough that I think the letter would be a 9/10. She’s also the advisor of the newspaper I created.
Gopo teacher- he loves me and also calls me patient all the time bc he struggles with my pronouns. Told me he wants me to do it again and has always praised me as being one of the best students in there. I’m also a strong lead for our teams in that class and have always excelled in competition -7/10
Teacher from GHA - obv can’t be too revealing abt this one but he taught my intensive class at my 3 week program, and I spent well over 3 hrs w him everyday. He’s one of the best people I’ve ever met and the impact we had on one another was huge. He’s also a journalism teacher at his Uni and has a way w words. 9/10
Science Teacher- had her last year for anatomy and this year for AP bio. I also stay w her during my virtual periods. We talk all the time and genuinely just have a rlly rlly great dynamic. 8/10?
Counselor- she doesn’t really like anyone but I will say we are semi-close. I’ve done a few projects w her. I’ve had to keep my bridges mended w her recently bc of incidents at school lol.
——————————— EXTRACURRICULARS/HOBBIES -We The People Competition- super passionate about this one. Goes hand in hand with our GOPO class, and I’ve spent a ton of time and effort on it. Also combines a lot of my interests such as politics and writing.
-Newspaper Team- Created a school newspaper, head of it. Put my own money forth to create a website in an effort to save paper. Hand picked the team after talking w teachers to see who the strongest writers, editors, etc were. (V important to note that our school doesn’t allow clubs so getting it approved was a pain)
-Creative Writing- I’ve wrote like 50k words of creative writing at this point lol, it’s just something I do on my free time but it’s a huge interest.
CERT- digital design/social media worked for our community emergency response team. Recently got promoted to manager of my own division
Student council, 11th grade. President this year.
National Honor Society
WVGHA- Governors academy for top like 100 students in the state. My classes have an emphasis on politics and government with some literature on the side. I loved this sm and tied it into my story a lot, I came out the day I got home from GHA. Genuinely life changing.
I’m a QuestBridge prep scholar and won a scholarship for the Stanford Envision Law program.
Yearbook for 4 years. We are technically only allowed to take the class twice, and I only done it once. The summer after my freshman the teacher came to me and asked me to help him finish the yearbook since his last class ditched him as soon as Covid began. I’ve been an advisor/editor ever since.
I want to add that we don’t have clubs and I’ve never been able to do sports or anything that required travel due to how low income we are, like we literally didn’t get a car until like two years ago. A Lot of my opportunities have been self created because of this. Sometimes this sub makes me feel like I have no chance, but I do think that my circumstances and opportunities will play a part in admissions.