Business, Economics Applicant
Male · Chinese · Public
Income: Upper-Middle Class
AP Exams Taken
- Speech & DebateCaptain of approximately 200 members
- Personal InvestingManage 50k portfolio
- Investment ClubPresident of approximately 40 members
- FBLACommittee Member of approximately 200 members
- Classical PianoQualified and placed at an international competition and some state/regional competitions
- Robotics ClassTeacher
- Transfer Student Tour Guide
- National Honor SocietyExecutive Board of approximately 200 students
- Junior Year Summer InternshipManaged product to donate 76k masks to homeless shelters
- Tennis9th Grade Junior Varsity, 10-12th Grade Varsity
- ★Qualified to AIME
- ★Qualified to debate nationals
- ★Description: Placed 82nd overall
- ★2x FBLA Nationals Qualifier
- ★Description: 3x State Top-10, 1st Place Junior Year
- ★National Latin Exam
- ★Description: 2x Gold, 1x Silver Medalist
- ★2nd Prize at National Chinese Essay Contest
- ★National Merit Scholar
- ★Description: Coca-Cola Semifinalist
Essay Topics
My personal statement was a really personal story of how I overcame one of my greatest insecurities. I put months into this essay, with 14 revisions, until I was happy with it. I talked with some admissions people at my accepted schools recently and many of them gushed over my essay, so I'd like to think my personal statement was a big reason for my success.
- Northwestern University
- Performance/Outcome: We talked about debating in college and people we both knew for about an hour.
- Vanderbilt University
- Performance/Outcome: Our conversation went really well; she even told me which bars in Nashville were the best.
- Yale University
- Performance/Outcome: I had this really old interviewer whom I had no shared interests with whatsoever. We did talk for a long time but it was mostly him rambling about his experiences.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Performance/Outcome: Very similar to Yale, my interviewer just rambled for an hour.
- University of Pennsylvania
- Performance/Outcome: My interviewer didn't allow for a conversation to happen; he sort of just asked a list of questions and said goodbye.
Counselor Rec
I didn't know my counselor that well, but I gave her my brag sheet and we talked for about 30 minutes about the letter. My transfer student tour guide means I work on a daily basis with the counselors, so I got really close to my counselor throughout the year, but I'm not sure how good it was when she wrote it.
Teacher 1
I had this math teacher from 10th to 12th grade, and got really close to him before he wrote this rec. He's also known at my school for writing awesome rec letters to even kids who he didn't know that well, so I'm very confident mine was great.
Teacher 2
I asked my AP Lang teacher because I really didn't know who to ask. He's pretty commonly asked but is known for mediocre recs for people he doesn't know that well. Because of Covid, I never got to become that close with him, so I'm not that sure this rec was that good.
Additional Rec
I asked the President of the company I interned for during my Junior Summer for this rec. He allowed me to review the rec and ask for changes, so I was able to shape the rec the way I wanted it. However, I didn't work with him for a long enough time for this rec to be that great.
Dartmouth Peer Rec
I asked a really close friend (basically my older sister) and I have 100% faith in her.
Accepted (14)
Waitlisted (7)
Rejected (9)
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