u/Logical_Department62

I'm currently a high school junior with about 1 year and 5 months time until i have to actively apply for university. I live in India at this stage, I'm pretty confused about what I should be doing at the moment to bolster my chances of getting into a good university. This is what my application looks like currently:

Grades:

9th - 95%

10th - 94%

SAT - I'll be giving the SAT in November, but I got a 1470 on my PSAT and the practice tests online seem pretty easy tbf.

Extra-Curriculars:

Debate Society President (recently conducted an extremely large national Debate in partnership with an organisation, over 120 teams participated)

Head Of Operations Quiz Society (a few awards here and there and i organise a weekly quiz bowl)

Research executive at a passion project with a few buddies (I lead econ research, We're currently working on a long term project wherein which we survey, document and educate the underprivileged in our city about the economics of malnutrition with camps set up arounf the city dedicated to teaching people in poverty how they can cook cheap food that has ample nutrition, how that affects people's labour and documenting wage theft stuff like that) we will start surveying from next week.

Internship at a chartered accountants office (shadowed the guy for a month)

Awards:

Might get doxxed so a few national Awards in debate and quiz, nothing too big or international yet. Mostly circuit Awards and big invitational Awards.

Universities I aspire to get into:

1. LSE

2. Bocconi

3. Upenn

4. Brown

5. Vanderbilt

I want to pursue economics and finance in the future.

What can I do more in order to increase my chances of admission into these great universities?

I'm currently a high school junior with about 7 months time until the next academic year. I live in India at this stage, I'm pretty confused about what I should be doing at the moment to bolster my chances of getting into a good university. This is what my application looks like currently:

Grades:

9th - 95%

10th - 94%

SAT - I'll be giving the SAT in November, but I got a 1470 on my PSAT and the practice tests online seem pretty easy tbf.

Extra-Curriculars:

Debate Society President (recently conducted an extremely large national Debate in partnership with an organisation, over 120 teams participated)

Head Of Operations Quiz Society (a few awards here and there and i organise a weekly quiz bowl)

Research executive at a passion project with a few buddies (I lead econ research, We're currently working on a long term project wherein which we survey, document and educate the underprivileged in our city about the economics of malnutrition with camps set up arounf the city dedicated to teaching people in poverty how they can cook cheap food that has ample nutrition, how that affects people's labour and documenting wage theft stuff like that) we will start surveying from next week.

Internship at a chartered accountants office (shadowed the guy for a month)

Awards:

Might get doxxed so a few national Awards in debate and quiz, nothing too big or international yet. Mostly circuit Awards and big invitational Awards.

Universities I aspire to get into:

1. LSE

2. Bocconi

3. Upenn

4. Brown

5. Vanderbilt

I want to pursue economics and finance in the future.

What can I do more in order to increase my chances of admission into these great universities?

I'm a HS junior studying in India, where we don't really have assessments throughout the year but rather an end-all be-all exam at the end of the academic year. I scored 93.6% in my board examination in 10th, which roughly translates to a 3.74 GPA, and there's really no way to distinguish b/w unweighted and weighted gpa here since we don't really get credits. I know a 3.7 isn't competitive for T20s, and to be honest there's really no way to explain this grade I just messed one of my exams up. However, I have been on an upward trend. My GPA freshman year was something north of 3.6 and I did get stack up on a few awards. Thing is, I'm confident I can do well this year, but I'm still pretty scared that one dumb mistake I made my sophomore year will hamper my chances of getting into a good university. Is a 3.7 still salvageable?

I'm about to turn 17 in 3 months. Ive been overweight literally all my life and up until the age of 15 I used to be taller than my peers. I think my height has slowed down now. I reached obesity at the age of 16 and I finally locked in and lost 16 kgs in an year, which is not great but with Hypothyroidism and relapses it's the best I could manage.

I'm currently 5'7.5-5'8, my mother is 5'3 and my father is 5'11. My brother is 6'1 so I think I have decent potential. I've started hitting the gym for a month and ive noticed decent visible progress. I also used to be pretty hunched on account of my weight but I try to be mindful of my posture to the best of my ability. My Hypothyroidism is pretty controlled at the moment, but an year and a half ago it was incredibly incredibly bad. Ever since I've lost weight, it has been regulated and is pretty excellent actually.

Im currently working on building muscle, I have a normal physique now still overweight but people notice that I look more athletic and I've lost weight. I'm currently 77 Kgs and 5'7.5, an year ago I was 92 and about 5'6.

Do I still have growth possibility?

Hello! I recently bought a laptop 3 weeks ago, here are the specs:

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Lenovo LOQ, 13th Gen Intel Core i7 13700HX, RTX 5050-8GB, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, FHD

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Initially, I downloaded Wukong from fitgirl and the game worked fine. I had finished chapter 1 with basically no issues. I was playing on cinematic with DLSS 4x frame gen and I averaged 120 fps. Now, all of a sudden one day when I booted wukong, it stopped working. It kept crashing as soon as I opened it. I tried everything I even reinstalled the drivers but for some reason it still wouldn't work. I deleted the fitgirl version and I downloaded from Steam. The game still didn't open normally and I had to play on Compatibility mode. The moment I use my mouse or my TouchPad on normal mode the game would crash. In Compatibility mode, with the exact same settings that gave me 120 fps, I get 30 or 40 fps maximum. Ive tried everything, the settings are exactly the same, there's no frame limit and yet for some reason I still can't play properly. Ive tried renaming the file, I've cleared cache, ive basically done everything I could to make it work but it still does not. The moment i move my cursor around the game crashes in normal mode. How do I fix this?