Cliche Cali Asian goes at it again… (Lots of Crying w/ Ivies)
Demographics:
Gender: male
Race/Ethnicity: Asian
Residence: Cali (Not bay area)
Income Bracket: Upper Middle
-Type of School: Competitive Private
-Hooks: none
Intended Major:
Race, Ethnicity, & Migration, political science, public policy, education
Academics:
-GPA 4.0/4.75
-Rank: top 10%
-APs: 15 APs, all 5s except 2 fours
- Senior Course Load: AP Art History, Multivariate/Linear Algebra, AP Psych, AP Physics E&M, AP Gov (took it a bit lighter cause I took 6 APs junior)
Standardized Testing:
1550 SAT single sitting
ECs/Activities:
Founder of National Campaign - huge policy impact, lots of credible ppl joined
Policy Director & Region President for organization - policy advocacy
One off {{TASS, NDLS, and Boy’s Nation}}
School Reformer & Researcher - independently audited school and pressured it to change bunch of stuff in their curriculum
Executive Director of Cultural Museum - huge credited impact + first youth E.D. + a lot of advocacy
National History Day President - revitalized mentorship program + pretty good school impact
Researcher @ T30 - did lit review, sole hs researcher + contributed to paper (race relations)
Researcher @ T30 - sole hs researcher + pretty good involvement by pitching a project and accepted (race relations)
School Curriculum Creator - basically also independently audited courses over 5 years and created lectures that were mandatory for students
Male Ballerino - rlly time consuming + lead roles + unique (?)
Additional Info: (in no particular order)
Intern @ City Commission
Policy Researcher @ County Education
Independent Researcher (published in concord review)
Semi-selective research program (<10% acceptance rate)
Selective leadership program (<10% acceptance rate)
Volunteering for students
Journalist (wrote unironically female empowering articles for over a year… as a guy..)
Flute (bunch of natl awards)
mock trial attorney & VP (MVP + 2nd in county)
Speech and Debate (won first speaker awards at multiple invitationals)
LoRs:
Eng teacher (9.5/10?) - said that I was the first student in 30 years to change her outlook on race
Sci teacher (9.5/10?) - was really close w her and I led and created curriculum for her classes for the last like 4 weeks of school
Counselor - idk was kind of close
Supplemental Letter from my campaign (9.5/10) - said I would be future congressman (don’t know if that’s good… haha)
Awards:
- concord review published
- city leader award (only youth to receive it given by mayor)
- another city award
- bunch of school awards
- bunch of flute national awards
Essays:
I’m a pretty natural writer due to writing so much for different programs. Write about discrimination as a male Ballerino -> advocacy journey
Results:
Acceptances:
-Harvard (committed)
-Stanford (REA)
-Yale
-Princeton
-Brown
-Dartmouth
-UPenn
-Columbia
-Northwestern
-UCB
-UCLA
-UCSD
-UCSB
-Duke
-UChicago
-Safeties
Waitlists:
-CWRU
-Vanderbilt
- Emory
-Cornell
Rejections:
-None!
Pls don’t doxx me if you know me… overall rlly happy w results!