Hey College Confidential,
Title explains everything! I want to hear the thoughts of this community on it. How will ESS affect admission to a US college, specifically top-ranked ones for social science, in the context of a certain student? This student won an international award in a geography competition, self-studied a few APs in social science (and got all 5s on them, one was taken in 8th grade), won the social studies departmental exemplary student award, did an internship at an international chamber of commerce, helped start a social studies club, and is pretty synonymous with social science at their school despite only being a sophomore. They are taking ESS as their Group 4 Science subject in IB. They will take Geography and Global politics as their two HLs in Group 3, and English A as their third HL.
Thank you in anticipation of your responses.