<p>Hey. I'm a freshman at Ohio State (but entered as a sophomore by credit hour) and am looking to transfer to Cornell, Georgetown, Penn, or Vanderbilt.
I'm applying for arts and sciences (econ, most likely).</p>
<p>I was just contacted by the Legislative Director to a Congressman from Idaho who wants to introduce a bill in the next couple of weeks to restructure the stimulus plan. He knew my high school econ teacher and that's how he heard of me. He wants my opinion on some of the things in the bill he's going to propose. He just met with Paulson and he's meeting with Goldman Sachs, the NY Fed, and the incoming sec. of the treasury next week...which means I have this info before they do!!!!
I'm pumped. Will this help me out??
My stats:
HS GPA: 3.99 uw, 4.66 weighted
HS rank: 2 of 170
ACT: 33 (took only once)
EC's: VP Key Club
National Honor Society
Captain, Academic Team (District Champs, Contestants on Brain Game TV show, Columbus)
5 Varsity sports letters (soccer, tennis, and cross country)
2-time student director of school musical, major role senior year
First-seat trumpet, squad leader, "screech trumpet"
Arion Award for musical achievement
High school's award for most outstanding senior male
Sole recipient of departmental awards in English, Spanish, and Business/Econ
Ohio High School Athletic Association's Scholar/Athlete Award
Army Reserve Scholar/Athlete Award
WTOV TV award for Top of the (Ohio) Valley
3 academic letters (45 hours of community service, 3.0+ GPA)
Two leadership awards (one was to a state conference)</p>
<p>College: Ohio State
GPA: 3.8
Courses last quarter: Honors philosophy 100 (A-), Honors anthropology (A), Calc 2 (A-)
Courses this quarter: Honors theatre 100, Anthropology 300, Spanish 103.66
EC's: Undergraduate Economics Society, research assistant to grad student in anthropology (I help him analyze artifacts he found in an excavation)</p>
<p>No, I went to Indian Creek. My econ teacher actually used to teach the Legislative Director, and I was her favorite pupil (she even bought me some books and such) in the last few years, so she directed him toward me.</p>
<p>No offense to you, you are a lot smarter than me, but WHY IN THE **** IS A CONGRESSMAN ASKING A 19 YEAR OLD TO LOOK AT THE STIMULUS PACKAGE, AND MAYBE HELP REVISE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Or am I just misunderstanding something? </p>
<p>Sorry to sound like a d!ck, but with our economy in the *<strong><em>ter, national debt at 10.6 trillion dollars, we can't really afford to *</em></strong> around.</p>
<p>But, on second thought, you'd probably do a better job than Congress will. lol</p>
<p>He's not. He's asking an 18 year old. Hahahaha. No, it's not the congressman. Those guys don't do crap; it's his legislative director and he's doing it to 1) help expose me to policy analysis, which is what I want to go into and 2) because my old econ teacher has a good rep with him and she recommended me.
And it's not like I'm going to get to completely change everything. Just look it over and offer my opinion, which honestly probably doesn't mean anything to him. After all, he knows a lot more than me and is in the middle of drafting something already. But it's a good experience and I'm just asking if you think it'll help me in my apps.</p>
<p>Oh, hel l yeah man, GTown is probably going to love that, but I honestly have no clue about how hard it is to transfer into one of those places, I'm sure it is pretty difficult. Sounds like that teacher has pretty dam good connections, I could never imagine getting something like that at 18.</p>
<p>If you want to go into Policy analyis, why not apply to PAM at Cornell rather than CAS-Econ? Ugh I sure hope you're applying for Fall'09 transfer, cause I don't wanna compete with you for Spring '10. I'm applying for Econ at Cornell too, as well as JHU and WAM.</p>
<p>PAM = Policy Analysis & Management (only they no longer teach Management, so it's just Policy Analysis). It's a major at Cornell in the College of Human Ecology. Sounds like something someone interested in Policy Analysis would apply to :)</p>
<p>Policy wonks reach out to constituents all the time. When they create their proposals, they love to quote 85 year old Mary Smith from Osh Kosh on health care and 18 year old college student on college issues. They are not looking for Mary's expertise, just an opinion from their district.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's pretty much how it is. And he heard I was into policy analysis, so he wanted to give me the experience. Since he went to my high school years ago, he keeps in contact with my hs econ teacher and she suggested that he contact me. Lucky break. But it is a great experience and was simply hoping it would help me with my apps. After all, luck is a huge determinant in just about everything in admissions.</p>