u/Easy_Performer4480

chance adopted urm legacy for yale

Demographics

  • private school (1-5 ivies per yr, mostly early Penn; a yale every yr or 2). no APs
  • black, adopted into white family
  • high income, no aid
  • yale legacy

Academics

  • 1560, not superscored
  • 2 self-studied aps jr yr, more senior yr (3-4). none offered @ schl.
  • 4.0 UW equivalent

Honors

1. [big CS award; decently prestigious] (11)

2. [2x debate National Qualifier + auxillary awards] (11, 12)

3. [big national journalism awards] (11, 12)

4. PVSA, volunteering stuff grouped here (11, 12)

5. 2 summer programs here (11, 12)

Activities

  1. Founder & Executive Director, [nonprofit you've heard of] relates to spike, big numbers, all 4 yrs
  2. Data & Research Assistant, T5 for major. regular research position, thanked on publication
  3. First Author & Independent Researcher a few papers independently; relates to spike/major
  4. Co-Chair & Research Lead, other nonprofit you've heard of this one is actually the most impressive numbers-wise, but for humility i won't say i'm president (i am). will mostly talk about research; relates to spike
  5. Lead Economics Researcher, student research org. great partnerships, decent output; relates to spike
  6. Paid Research & Data Intern, state gov't position relating to major mostly data/research work, idk - but prestigious enough lol. also did stuff for senator separately; might be another slot?
  7. Captain, School Debate
  8. Editor-in-Chief, School Paper
  9. School Leadership Position
  10. Tutoring/service stuff

Additional Information

Academic Context:

  • Language: created a language class bc/ exhausted highest level by jr yr; teacher for this will write rec
  • APs: no classes related to my major offered at school; also no APs offered, so self-studied all related APs. etimating 5s/4s.
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u/Easy_Performer4480 — 23 days ago