Hi! I applied ED to Duke on the 22nd, I’m Asian-American from a small school on Long Island, not applying for need based financial aid, and I’m super anxious because I am seeing all these applicants better than I am. I’m only listed the activities that my admissions officer will see.
GPA: 97.96 UW / 109.36 W
Rank: 3/111
ACT: 33 C (35 E, 34 M, 35 R, 33 S, 11 W)
EC:
-Yearbook 9, 10, 11, 12 (Treasurer 11, 12; Layout editor 11; Assistant editor in chief 12)
-Agapae Literary-arts magazine, 10, 11 ,12 (Secretary 11, Co-managing editor 12; We won the Columbia scholastic press association silver crown award and presented a workshop at the conference)
-Interact (Community service club) 10, 11, 12 (Treasurer 12)
Varsity field hockey 9, 10, 11, 12 (Scholar athlete award 11)
JV/Varsity badminton 9, 10, 11, 12
Varsity Fencing 10, 11, 12
Art honor society 9, 10, 11, 12 (Treasurer 11, Co-VP 12)
Foreign language honor society 10, 11, 12 (Treasurer 11, 12)
Quill and scroll international literary honor society 11, 12 (treasurer 11)
National honor society
Science honor society
Tutoring/hw helpers 9, 10, 11, 12
Hospital volunteer summer, 13hrs/week for 5 weeks
Total: ~300 hours of community service
Internship at Forefront capital markets 36hrs/week, 6 weeks over summer
AWARDS:
Rensselaer Medalist winner (awarded by RPI) 11
AP Scholar with distinction 11
Achievement in math 9, 11
Excellence in LOTE 11
My essay is very…different. It’s about a typical friday over the summer when I went from my internship to downtown manhattan to go see drag shows; focusing on exploration, curiosity, work ethic, and fun.
Letters of rec are coming from 2 very close teachers…hopefully very well written
My schedules have always been the more rigorous my small school offers, I’ve visited Duke twice and was pretty specific in my “Why Duke?” essay
THANK YOU<333