So I thought this might be a little fun experiment to do. One of the things I find most useful about CC is the many many stories of different people here, which sort of give you a global perspective on what applications are like. So I thought I would share my (currently uncompleted) story of my senior year here, just to give back a little. So I’m NOT looking for advice per se, but if you do have some free life-changing advice you’d like to gift to an internet stranger, please don’t think twice about offering those gems.
I know I said this would be a college admissions story, but there I lied - It’s really about my life, a little about how I’m going to apply, maybe a diary of sorts. Just to deviate from the norm. I’m doing this because a) I need an incentive to keep an ongoing diary and need to keep myself accountable to my goals, b) I think it might be an interesting resource to draw on later, and c) because why not, it sounds fun. Hopefully someone will find this useful someday.
A bit about me:
I’m a rising senior at HS, (aka, in the middle of exam season, currently procrastinating 
), with strong interests in things like leadership, debate, politics and community, etc. When my time comes I will probably be applying to Stanford (eep!), maybe Brown or uPenn, Georgetown, maybe Wellesley, schools like UCLA, etc. We’ll see.
Details, as posted on another thread, are C/P-ed below:
Stats:
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<li>SAT - super score 2210 (CR - 800, M - 710, W - 700).</li>
<li>SAT 2s - yet to take (Probably will take literature, biology, maybe something else.)</li>
<li>IB predicted - It shouldn’t drop below a 40, if you add the 3 points. I’m trying to boost that to 42 right now… On the other hand, 4 HLs - English, Economics, Philosophy and Chinese B. SLs - Maths and Environmental Systems.</li>
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Summary of extra curriculars:
- President, captain and coach for school debating team (silver finalist in major local tournament, coached kids to win other things) - 3 years ongoing.
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<li>Student council president (Been involved with the student council officially for 3 years, I have tons of fun on council and I think this year has been one of the best years yet in the school’s history)</li>
<li>Chair of inter-school debating organization that runs biannual charity debating tournaments - lots of involvement with different local and international NGOs, worked with Amnesty International and one or two other very prominent local charities. - 1 year as chair, 1 year as organizer, 1 year as participant :D</li>
<li>Organizer (albeit very passionate one) of a school based inclusivity group that strives for human rights / inclusiveness between LGBT, gender, racial, socio-economic etc. divides. Organized big groups for pride parades (lots of news coverage on that), run lessons for grade 9 students in school on the reality of discrimination, run an inter-school student conference inviting 4 different NGOs to come discuss with students on problems in home city, and how we can solve those problems. Been working closely with this local NGO I’m fond of who have the most warm-hearted organizers I’ve ever met. - 1 crazy year!</li>
<li>President of philosophy club that hosts discussions with students on philosophical issues every week - 2 years as president now, but it’s floundered a little this year.</li>
<li>Member of national delegation to one of the most prestigious international public speaking and debating tournaments in the world for two years running (involved 4+ months of training one day a week for both events), probably will be helping to host the tournament next year. - 2 years.</li>
<li>Won 4-5 notable debating best speaker / winning team awards at local tournaments, ranked 4th in the world for debating at aforementioned prestigious international debating / public speaking tournament (around 200 people attended, I think?)</li>
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I’ll write more after exams. See you all!
- hope this is useful in some way!
I’ll take a look though and thanks!