<p>Greetings!</p>
<p>At this point in the application process, I am mainly looking for advice/feedback on how I can best portray myself in the application rather than direct 'chances' (though those certainly can be helpful as well!). </p>
<p>I am interested in applying to:
Stanford (I applied early action)
Harvard
Yale
UC Berkeley
Georgetown University
Cornell
UCLA
USC
Pomona
Northwestern
University of Chicago</p>
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<p>Male
Caucasian
Upper Middle Class
Public school
Live in a mid-sized town</p>
<p>SAT: 2190 (R 740, M 720, W 730)</p>
<p>Subject Tests: 790 (US History) and 720 (Math II)</p>
<p>GPA: 4.00 Unweighted; my school doesn't weight GPA</p>
<p>Class Rank: 1 out of about 400</p>
<p>Course Load:
My courses are about as difficult as my school offers. Granted, this a very light course load compared to other schools. At this point, I've taken 3 AP's: Calc AB (4), APUSH (5), and APGov (5). There are some people in my school who have a more difficult course load for senior year (I'm currently in another 3 AP's), but I am taking the maximum that fit into my school schedule.</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities:</p>
<p>Democratic Precinct Committee Person (11-12)
--Elected in my states Democratic Primary to serve as a Precinct Committee Person. This position has a few legal responsibilities; for example, in my house district, the Democratic nominee running for the state house dropped out, so I was one of about 10 other PCP's who got to pick a replacement nominee.</p>
<p>Student Government (11-12)
--Associated Student Body President
--Junior Class President</p>
<p>YMCA Youth and Government (Basically a model youth legislature which connects youth to the democratic process; 9-12)
--Elected as my state's Youth Governor(12)
--Youth Secretary of State (11)
--Selected to go to national conference of about 800 people, where I received a distinguished delegate award.</p>
<p>Democratic Party (10-12)
--Served on my county's Democratic Party Executive Committee (10-12)
--Voting Member on my county's Democratic Central Committee (11-12)
--Elected as the first alternate delegate to my State's Democratic Party Central Committee (12) (Basically, the central committee discusses and votes on all matters relating to the Party)</p>
<p>Young Democrats Club (10-12)
--President and Founder</p>
<p>Speech and Debate (9-12)
--Parlay and Impromptu
--3rd Place in State for Parlay debate (11)
--3rd Place in districts for Impromptu (11)</p>
<p>Violin (9-12)
--All State Orchestra (11)
--All City Orchestra (9-10)
--Associate Concertmaster at my school's Orchestra (11)
--School Orchestra won State Competition (9-10)</p>
<p>Soccer (9-10)
--JV Captain (10)</p>
<p>Various Church Activities (9-12)
--3 different mission trips</p>
<p>I've done only extracurricular activities that I love, which, if you can't tell, is mainly politics.</p>
<p>Work Experience:
I worked as the head intern for a local state house campaign. In this position, I've also been in charge of training 2 other interns, and it's about 10 hours per week (it was 15 hours per week during the summer).</p>
<p>Awards/Honors:
--National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist</p>
<p>Recommendations:
All should be quite good, though I haven't seen the teacher recs myself (I waived the right to see them).</p>
<p>Additional Info:
I have legacy from Stanford, and I am interested in majoring in Political Science or some similar field.</p>
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<p>So, now for the question. In my applications, I'm trying to convey my interest in politics but also am trying to portray myself as, well, an actual person.</p>
<p>Basically, I used my CommonApp essay to humanize myself, writing about how I got through a severe personal struggle, whereas I'm using all of my supplements (when possible) to describe my passion for politics. However, I'm worried that a singular focus on my political EC's might make me appear one dimensional. </p>
<p>With that said, should I continue to push my political interests or should I expand on other things about me in my application essays?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>