Political Science, Government, International Affairs Applicant
Female · White (MENA) and Asian (Chinese) · GA · Middle-sized non-competitive public
🏷️ First-Gen
Income: Middle-class
AP Exams Taken
- Member of my county government's Youth CommissionDid community projects like park restorations, expos, other volunteer work.
- Mock Trial Team Captain4 years on the team, 5x Outstanding Attorney Award recipient. Region and district champions.
- Manager at a political consulting firmLaunched canvassing projects, managed new hires.
- Student Government President
- Social Media Intern with Young Democrats of GA
- Percussion Section Leader in Marching Band
- Poll Worker for the 2022 election season
- Campaign Intern with a city race in New York
- Senior Class Chair of my school's Beta Club
- President of Rho Kappa Social Studies National Honor Society
- ★Alternate for a national political program
- ★AP Scholar with Distinction
- ★Finalist for GHP in Social Studies
- ★All-A Honor Roll
- ★Georgia Certificate of Merit
Essay Topics
8/10 - I tried to take a unique approach and talk about a lot of topics relating to who I am as a person. I used this overarching theme of my love for browsing Wikipedia and connected the things I learned on there to learning about aspects of myself. Completely overhauled the last paragraph in the last few days.
7/10 - I was on a time crunch to write this one since I was going out of the country. It's mostly a Frankenstein essay made up of bits and pieces of other essays I had written over the course of a year for college and scholarship-related things. More focus on my identity and how it's shaped me.
9/10 - I felt like I did pretty good on these. I took a few days to write them all, the short response ones were especially good. I tried to be witty here and there and I think it worked.
8/10 - I gave myself plenty of time to write these and honestly thought they were pretty good. I would say these are the best bunch and they really let me showcase my passion and aspirations.
6/10 - They're all a blur at this point. Not the worst but definitely room for improvement since I kind of powered through them.
- Yale University
- Performance/Outcome: 6/10 - I got my likely letter phone call an hour before the interview so I wasn't sure what to expect. Went in and did my best but I feel like I wasn't as charismatic as I usually was. My interviewer also just didn't seem to react positively to anything I said so that was a bit of a bummer.
- Harvard University
- Performance/Outcome: 10/10 - I feel like this interview carried my Harvard app. The interviewer was a really nice guy, funny and honest about his time there. He showed real genuine interest in me and my background, I ended up talking to him a lot about my less common ethnic background and I feel like I was able to articulate really well how my upbringing and perspective have been shaped by my background.
AP World/AP Human Teacher
Known him since my freshman year, had him as a teacher for 9th/10th. He's like my adoptive grandpa and he knows a lot about my extracurriculars and my future aspirations. Mentioned how I was one of a kind and he hoped the letter could do me justice, he's the best.
AP Gov/Macro Teacher
Known her since my freshman year and had her as a teacher senior year. Really cool lady; she used to be in politics so she's very supportive of my political aspirations. She likes me a lot and mentioned my maturity and responsibility a lot in my letter.
State Representative
Not as personal as the other ones since he doesn't know me as well, but still nice. He mentioned some of my more career-oriented aspects and he knows me fairly well; definitely more than the average state rep knows their constituent.
County Commissioner
Got to know her really well during the two years I did Activity 1 plus I helped her write the letter. This one especially touched a lot on the specific community work I did and my passion for helping my community. Out of all my letters, I think this one was the most important.
Accepted (7)
Waitlisted (4)
Rejected (1)
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