Hey guys! Now that I’ve finished my final application figured I’d put this out here to see how closely we can predict results once my actual letters come in. Here’s all the stuff:
Schools I applied to:
University of Chicago
Stanford University
University of Pennsylvania Huntsman
Brown University
Georgetown School of Foreign Service
Harvard College
Yale
Claremont McKenna College
Johns Hopkins University
Cornell University
Vanderbilt
Washington University in St. Louis
University of California Berkeley
University of California San Diego
George Mason University Honors College (Accepted EA)
University of California Los Angeles
American University
Brandeis
Colby College
University of California Santa Barbara
Minerva Schools at KGI
Yale NUS
California
White Male Low-Income
Public high school in wealthy area
Testing:
ACT - 36 Composite Single Sitting (36M 36E 36R 35S waiting on writing)
Subject Tests - Math II 800, Literature 730, Spanish Reading 750
AP - Calc AB 5, Human Geo 5, English Lang 5, Spanish Lang 5, Spanish Lit 5, Statistics 5 (and a couple that I took for no reason without self-studying or taking the class so they’re 3s or 4s, probably won’t submit)
Grades:
(9-12) UW: 3.8 UC: 4.25 W: 4.28
Really weak 9th and 10th grade years, very strong upwards trend (9th 3.8, 10th 3.8, 11th 4.8, 12th 5.0)
Senior year class load: AP Calc BC, AP Art History, AP Microecon, AP Gov, AP Physics, AP Comp Lit
Awards:
-2nd Place in a speech event at speech and debate national championship
-2nd Place at an international debate tournament
-1st Place Robotics World Championship
-1st Place Boys State Oratory
-1st Place Boys State Legal Advocacy
A few of the ECs I put:
Extracurriculars - these are just a few highlights I have more stuff I can add but don’t want to waste your time:
-Business Consultant (Paid): 3 years coaching, now I’m founding an agency that’s working on a contract with a billion dollar valuation startup accelerator
-Robotics: 2 years Business lead for hs robotics team, raised about $140,000 each year, and was invited to Japan for a sponsor tour
-Debate: 3 years Finalist for the US National debate team (Top 15 in the country, many individual awards, coaching middle school debate, and invited to a tournament in Korea over the summer
-Local Homeless Shelter: 9 years Volunteer for a long time, first ever minor on the board of director for a couple years, and head of a group of high school students that intern at the shelter
-Spanish Translator (Paid): 3 years Translating Venezuelan birth certificates, translating online college courses
-Entrepreneurship: 2 years Work with a small team to develop a GPS bike computer, pitched to local angel investors, project eventually failed but makes for a cool story and shows my interest
In general my essays are alright but not outstanding, my interviews are quite good (debate and all), and my recommendations are probably pretty mediocre with the exception of a supplemental rec from a business partner.
If anyone manages to guess them all correctly then I guess you’ll win some prize.
(I’m joking.)