u/Catzilla_007

Ask a question. I’ll answer. Edit your original comment to make me look bad.

We should bring this trend back. It was hilarious to read through these kinds of threads! (and also kinda diabolical at points)

Sandrone’s signature seems like it’d be pretty good for Gaming, no? Huge crit damage boost, high base atk, and even an atk% as part of the passive

Sure, half the passive is useless to him, but let’s ignore that lol.

The question then would be: could the crit dmg boost outweigh the massive atk Wolf’s Gravestone gives? Would be curious if that would work!

(My Gaming has ~2800 atk with an EM sands, and about the same without Wolf’s Gravestone but an ATK% sands. Seems like it would work in theory but the boost of the Wolf’s passive is just… kinda hard to beat lol)

** While I am a registered homeschooler, I homeschooled by taking online courses through various places. Northwestern CTD, BYU Independent Study, and UT Austin Online HS

Demographics: Gender, race/ethnicity, state, type of school, and hooks (URM, first generation, legacy, athlete, etc.)

White female, homeschooled, Texas. No hooks lol

Intended Major(s): Neuroscience or closest related

ACT/SAT/SAT II: SAT 1470 (May 2025, June 2026 comes out tomorrow. Will be taking August SAT and September ACT. Mistakenly never considered ACT until I took a practice test with friends for fun and got a 35 :/)

UW/W GPA and Rank: 3.89/4.75, no rank!

Coursework: AP/IB/Dual Enrollment classes, AP/IB scores, etc

Mostly AP classes, some honors and one Dual Enrollment

Dual Enrollment Class: Introduction to Neuroscience

Honors:
Pre-calculus
Pre-med Bio Ethics

Current AP Scores
Lang - 5
Physics 1 - 4
APUSH - 4
Pysch - 4
CSP - 4
Bio - 4
Calc BC - Incoming
Chem - Incoming
Micro - Incoming
Macro - Incoming
(I was sick for the week of AP testing this year 😭 so not holding out much hope :))

Awards:
CollegeBoard National Recognition Award (got this for the AP scores in 9th grade)
AP Scholar with Distinction
National Merit Commended
First Place, American Legion Oratorical (local & district); Finalist (Divisional)

Extracurriculars (In no particular order): 
(Gonna try not to dox myself here. Most of my ECs are through one large online organization. ~150k users. Will be named as: Favorite EC because it actually would be fairly easy to dox with the organization name :D)

1. Volunteer Tutor (a part of Fav EC) (January 2024-present)
   - 110 hours contributed, 118 learners across 20 countries
   - Top 5% on platform of ~106k tutors for: most learners impacted, tutoring hours, positive ratings, total number of sessions hosted

2. Co-lead of a team of 40 in said ‘Fav EC’ (April 2026-present) [was a member of the team from November 2025-April 2026 and was chosen for the team’s first set of 3 co-leads]
   - In charge of onboarding and offboarding, as well as choosing applicants to become new members
   - Answering team questions, helping with complicated issues, etc
   - Work on projects that directly impact the flow of the organization (like right now we are working on redoing a rubric that is used by a large portion of the organization to better fit the current standards)

3. Customer Service Team for fav EC (May 2026-present)
   - Manage Intercom system to answer questions
   - Help out confused members in the workplace Slack

4. Lifeguard (Summers 2024,2025,2026)
   - Worked 35 hours/week for 14 weeks each season
   - Maintained Red Cross Professional Rescuer and CPR/AED/First Aid certs
   - Ensured patron safety for up to 200+ guests daily
   - Monitored chemicals and mechanical readings
   - Cleaned and maintained all parts of facility

5. Vacation Bible School Volunteer (Summers 2024,2025)
   - Spent 25 hours 1 week per year preparing for lessons and wrangling children during them

6. Medical Club Leader | CTD Backpack (Fall 2023-January 2024)
   - Doubled student enrollment from 30 to 60+ student during tenure
   - Started a program to connect students to medical professionals all across the field, asking questions in interviews for club members

7. Community Moderator | CTD Backpack
   - Spent ~50 hours from Fall 2022 - January 2024 moderating the online chat site by intervening in conflicts and encouraging productive conversations

8. Business Services Volunteer | local church (Fall 2023)
   - Contributed 25 hours to merchandise quality control and assembly

9. Member of UX Club | Fave EC (Fall 2025-present)
   - Collaborate with UX Lead to design upcoming features for the site
   - Product test in collaboration with other members

10. Newspaper Editor | CTD Backpack (Fall 2024-January 2025)
    - Edited student articles for clarity and grammar in monthly editions
    - Approximately 12 articles per edition

Total Volunteer hours right now: ~300. Aiming for 350 by end of summer

Essays/LORs/Other: Optionally, guess how strong these are and include any other relevant information or circumstances.
LORS:
AP Lang teacher - 8/10. In previous LORs has talked a lot about my work ethic and improvement over the two years he’s taught me
Leader at fav EC - will probably be a 7-8/10
Looking for STEM ECs! Likely:
Physics 1/Chem teacher: probably 6/10 lol. It was an online class and he is kinda scary. Very very intelligent, and good teacher, but doesn’t give compliments easily

Essays:
Personal essay will talk about my struggle to get a proper health diagnosis (for a disorder that’s not very widely known, but is actually relatively common) and how I want to help others who were in the same position. The main schools I want to attend have specialized research institutes for this disorder, which is cool, and a ‘spike’ for me. A lot of my essays and experiences revolve around my tutoring and health journey, which makes me want to help others in the same position!

Schools: List of colleges, ED/EA/RD, etc
REA:
Harvard

EA:
Colorado School of Mines
UT Austin (I know it’s not ‘EA, EA’ but this category made most sense)
TAMU (guaranteed admission here at least :))

RD:
Yale
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
NYU
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Swarthmore
WashU
Boston University
Pepperdine
Brandeis
MIT (because why not)