u/annonated_americano

I'm and Indian 9th grader [ CBSE board ] in Delhi [ private school, 10ish kids who went to ivies/ T10s this year ]. I'm interested in law. I have 2 questions-

1. What ECs, competitions, APs etc should I take/ do going forward?

my profile is currently like this:

Demographics

• International student - India
• No hooks

Cost Constraints / Budget
No aid for UK, US depends on the college but can go till 50 lakhs INR per year.

Intended Major(s): Jurisprudence in the UK/ Econ in US

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

• Grades: 95% +
• ACT/SAT Scores: N/A

List your coursework

School doesn't offer APs, self studying

8th grade - AP English Lang - 4

9th grade - AP Macro Econ, AP English Lit, AP Comp. Govt.

Awards

pretty weak section

• John Locke Essay Competition Shortlist [ Econ, final results in Oct. but I think I might get VHC ]
• Won multiple Best Dels at Model UNs
• Some minor, regional/school-level awards for music, art, debate, etc
• Multiple gold medals in SOF Olympiads [ eh not really worth anything ]
• Scholastic Badge of Honour [ school thing- given to students with 90% aggregate ]

Extracurriculars

• Legal blog, I write short articles on based on international cases explaining them, commenting on them [ 50k reach- started 6 months ago ]
• Model UN [ top contender for leadership positions next year ]
• I'm writing a thriller novel, been working on it for the past 2 years and will publish by 10th grade.

2. Do I need any type of agency, Athena, GIDE, etc? Which one if so?

I'll be in piccadilly for a bit during my London trip and I want to make the best of it, what are some cool things to do, I'm interested in shopping [ brandy, subdued, ediked are some stores I'm covering in soho ], bookstores, food [ vegetarian ]. My itinerary right now consists of 4 things to do in piccadilly which are:

- Visit the Biscuitorium

- Visit the Lindt store

- Waterstones piccadilly

- Cecil Court

Will be visiting in early October.

i have an event in October, and I'm making it into a trip, need to stay close to Mayfair [ max 25 minutes by tube ]. 7 nights, 3 ppl, open to airbnb and hotels. Budget is 1300- 1600 GBP. Travel is 1 - 8th oct.

I started my period in early 7th grade, I was almost 12. I had okay-ish cramps, bearable, and only pained for the first 6ish hours. In mid 7th grade, I started experiencing extreme cramps, not being able to keep anything down, nausea, vomiting for about the first 12 hours of my period. It is really painful, like on a scale of 1-10, 1 was getting a scrape and 10 was getting shot and stabbed, it would be a 7. I still have periods like this and miss school, events and it's really frustrating [ in early 9th grade now ]. Is this something that can be controlled by diet? Is this normal? What do do? As far as I know none of my aunts, grandma's, mom gets periods like this.

I've seen plenty of people going to the junior gala but none going to the conference. if you are, dm me here, and we can talk?

I've also seen ppl making groups on ig and discord [ I don't have either, #strictasianparents ] so if ya'll wanna make a group here or on pinterest [ it's just for art inspo mom ] lmk.

did anyone get theirs yet? I don't want to book hotels and everything else if I don't. only thing I have booked are the conference and gala tickets bc I've heard they sell out pretty fast. I also sent them an email but no response. I'm worried if it takes too long hotels and events will sell out, since I'm international I am making this a trip, so places that require booking ages before might sell out too.

I was shortlisted for jlec and every essay I've seen has spacing between lines. I did not put any spacing. am I just a chronic over thinker or what?

For context I'm Indian, female, 8th grade [ please don't say I'm too young ]. CBSE board, I go to a school who has sent quite a few students to ivies.

I currently am:

- shortlisted for jlec

- writing a research paper [ law related ]

- writing a novel [ not really related to any specific subject, js something I started for fun ]

- starting a legal blog writing about and criticising cases

- have a pinterest account where I post mostly political stuff, and well it's still more of a informal diary but I don have 1.5 million monthly views and 1k followers

- model un, won best del multiple times

- debate

- prefect

Academics:

- 90%+ grade 7 [ lost marks in hindi, which I will not be taking next year ]

- 95%+ grade 8 [ currently ]

- taking past 8/9 this year

- taking ap eng lang and comp and want to add another ap [ got 5s on all practice/ mock tests ]

if you did, were you senior or junior and what question?

okay, four questions

1] are you going to the gala/ conference, neither or both?

2] what category [ senior or junior ]

3] what question did you attempt

4] what is the approx time they take to give you your official acceptance letter for visa purposes?