So I grew an Instagram account to a few thousand followers to showcase my work in outreach and education in my area, which originated from a club I did at my school.

Now I'm a junior, and the seniors applying to college from the same club want to list the Instagram account, but they didn't do any of the outreach and only did the in-school club activities.

Do I just let them list the account? I feel like my work is gonna get stolen, and that when I apply, it would be as if I only helped grow the account when I was the founder of basically the whole outreach effort.

I was thinking of applying to college, and ppl told me I can just apply questbridge and not rank any schools to get finalist status for my common app RD decisions? Is that how it works? Is it common?

Demographics

Gender: Male

Race/Ethnicity: Chinese

Residence: Eastern Virginia (not Northern Virginia)

Income Bracket: Need aid

Type of School: Mid-size public

Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): FGLI

Intended Major(s): Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Academics

GPA (UW/W): 4.0 UW / 4.89 W

Rank (or percentile): 3rd in class (98th)

# of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 11 AP Exams

Senior Year Course Load: AP Gov, AP Lit, AP Chem, magnet school courses

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

SAT I: 1550

• AP HuG, CSA, Calc BC, Stats, Seminar, USH, Spanish, Lang, Mechanics, E+M; 5
• AP euro; 4

Extracurriculars/Activities

Local University Project

10th–12th grade; Combining physics, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering to construct a stable magnetic environment for calibration to assist in a university fusion project; two pre-prints, one pending pub (co-author)

Niche Competition

9th–12th grade; Team captain; focus on building and optimizing solutions for renewable energy; a lot of CAD and engineering/physics; cant reveal name or i'll def get doxxed

Research

9th–11th grade; Contributed to and reporting remotely to weekly research group meetings for a self-lead project on modeling fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field using machine learning; assisting mentor on his project on an adjacent topic; 2x conference pub

Job

9th–12th grade; Worked in the family restaurant, handling cashier duties, delivering, cooking, and contributing during high-intensity rush periods.

Summer Program

10th grade; Selected as one of 11 students statewide in a state-sponsored program to perform upgrades to a robotic arm for greater adaptability and robustness in assembling particle accelerator parts; a lot of coding and CAD; robotic engineering mainly imo

Niche Competition

10th–12th grade; Team captain to lead experimental design involving lunar dust, including growing plants using lunar regolith and developing durable construction materials from lunar regolith and chemical additives.

MathCounts and Math Honor Society

11th–12th grade; Club president; organized mathematics lessons and directed events including math contests and preparing students for competitions

STEM Outreach Club

11th–12th grade; Club President; Hosted STEM lessons and events for local middle and elementary school students; integrating an engineering approach to the curriculum in addition to the CS lessons already present

EC #2 Middle School Version + Outreach

11th–12th grade**;** Co-founded a chapter at a local middle school, fundraising and guiding students through lessons and engineering construction on renewable energy systems (like building replicas and testing); preparing them for the same competition that I do;

Debate

9th–12th grade**;** Participated in monthly competitions on a variety of topics and levels.

Awards/Honors

#1 - 2x International level for excellence for my lunar regolith experiments

#2 - World Champion for my 2nd EC

#3 - 2x Qualification to State Science Fair

#4 - 2x State Qualification for Debate (my region lowkey not competitive)

#5 - Regional Math Award (team)

Letters of Recommendation

(Briefly describe relationships with your recommenders and estimated rating.)

Math teacher - multivar teacher; heard he writes good and im a top student in his class so probably 7-8/10

Humanities teacher - she has a lot of ppl asking her, and im not very close with her, so probably 4-5/10

Club sponsor - sponsors most of my club, was my freshman year math teacher and saw mme grow and take responsibility, trusts me, 9/10

Research mentor - chill guy really, idk much about his ability to write recs, but ive worked with him for 2 years, probably 6/10

Essays

Summer programs made me write a lot of essays, so id say i have some experience, albeit its pretty inconsistent sometimes. Id say, based on others in my school, theyre like a 8/10

College List

• Princeton (should i REA?)
• MIT
• Harvard
• Stanford (should i REA?)
• University of Chicago
• Johns Hopkins
• University of Pennsylvania
• Caltech
• Duke
• Cornell (or should I ED?)
• Columbia
• UC Berkeley
• UCLA
• Carnegie Mellon (or should I ED?)
• University of Michigan
• USC
• Georgia Tech

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

idrk what to do cuz its not like I need it for credit since i already have 5 in higher level courses, but maybe it'll show self-initiative?

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Rising junior here for the August SAT. I've gone through all the math questions in Oneprep and wrapping up the last 70 questions for english in oneprep (all on hard difficulty). I just took a practice today and got a 1550, 1 wrong in mod 1 eng and 2 wrong in mod 2 eng.

Tho it may seem like im doing better, the practice tests are getting easier from 11 (no prep) ->10 (1 week of prep) ->9 (today) so idk if theres a point for me to continue the rest or save them for the week before the august sat. also, idk what to practice anymore. my main weakness is vocab, dense reading, and old english works which im running out of pretty fast (i am getting better, as shown by my practice test today)

Should I take a break from studying? Im mainly lost as to what I should do now.

I did a regression with a table (9,-13) and (3,-4) where the first coordinate is the vertex. Now, I know i can solve this by hand and I did which I got (1/4)(x-9)^2-13.

However, I wanted to check my work on desmos, so I plot the regression but it gave me (0.21875)(x-9)^2-13 and the graph doesnt even fit the second coordinate.

Is this a case where I should not use Desmos at all? I mean, i know the math, i just want to check my work

Like when they search me up to verify my award, am I cooked? 😭 😭

Ive heard of ED, REA, and EA, and it summarizes for me that REA is just EA but u cant apply to other privates, EA u can apply to other privates, and ED is one shot, full commitment type of thing. If so, if one gets accepted, how does the deadline change? Do we get full time until May? What about multiple early applications? Does that just mean RD but all EA?

Demographics:

• Gender: Male
• Race/ethnicity: Asian
• Residence: Mid-atlantic
• Income: qualify for need aid
• Type of school: public
• Hooks: FGLI

Intended Major: Mechanical Engineering with Data Science/CS

Academics:

• GPA: 4.00 UW / 4.9 W
• Rank: top 3 in class of ~290

Standardized Testing:

• SAT: 1550 (800M/750E)
• AP Courses and Scores: AP Human Geography (5), AP European History (4), AP Statistics (5), AP Seminar (4), AP Calculus BC (5), AP Computer Science A (5), AP United States History (awaiting), AP Spanish (awaiting), AP English Language and Composition (awaiting), AP Physics C M and E/M (awaiting- self studied), AP United States Government (sr), AP English Liturature and Composition (sr), AP Environmental Science (sr)

ECs:

• Fusion research (10-12) - worked with a local university on a project to build models of a fusion device, 1 conference pub and 1 peer-reviewed pub
• Niche Club (9-12) - kinda like robotics but more niche towards a specific problem (renewable energy). Not trying to get doxxed. team captain and lead design engineer
• Heliophysics research (9-12) - working with an actual scientist remotely, using machine learning to model ions between the earth and the sun, two conference pub with AGU
• Autonomous research (10-12) - working under an undergrad led project, using data analysis and code to analyze data and draw conclusions about pedestrian behavior during dangerous interactions with cars, led to publication at computer vision conferences
• Family business (9-12) - help out at my parents store, the usual immigrant stuff
• State's Governor School (Engineering) (10) - selected as one of the 11 students state-wide to work at a lab on robotics and simulations
• Competitions (10-12) - team captain of a club where we compete in competitions supported by NASA, mostly in the fall
• MathCounts and Mu Alpha Theta (10-12) - head coach at the mathcounts at my middle school, and president of my mu alpha theta chapter. organized competitions and volunteering events
• Niche Club at the Middle School (11-12) - founded a chapter of my niche club at my middle school and taught middle schoolers the engineering and design process
• Varsity debater (9-12) - debated since my freshman year, liked it and continued :)

Awards

• Niche club 2x World Winner
• 2x "Best-in-Show" international recognition of my 7th EC
• Science fair state qualifier
• First place regional team math comp
• Publication for my fusion research

Essays/LORs/Other:

Math Teacher (10/10) - known her since 9th grade, sponsors most of my clubs

English Teacher (7/10) - too many suckers in my class, cant really stand out

Counselor (8/10) - somewhat, don't really talk much

Essays (7/10) - not a horrible writer, but quality varies

Chance me for: MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Georgia Tech, UC Berkley, CalTech, Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, UChicago, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, UMich, UPenn, UCLA.

Where should I apply early to?

"In light of the growing unhealthy population, the government should implement policies to regulate the nutritional content served because it promotes healthy citizens everywhere, supplements consumer opinions, and ends world hunger."

The argument is debateable since its government interferance on the market, but the claims are pretty obvious. is this bad?