Computer Science, Economics, Philosophy Applicant
Male · White-Asian (mixed) · SoCal · Competitive public grades 9 thru 11, private senior year
Income: Upper class
AP Exams Taken
- Debate club PresidentOrganized larger multi-school conventions, worked closely with other chapters
- TA'ing Computer Science courseHelped design the course from scratch
- Political Advocacy/VolunteeringAnti unlimited campaign finance
- InspiritAIBasic AI project
- AMC 10 and AMC 12Qualified for AIME sophomore year, stopped after that
- Biking club President
- Track and field co-captain
- Outreach Advocacy for charitable club
- Math TA Sophomore and Junior Year
- Stanford Summer SessionCS courses
- Harvard Summer SchoolPolitical philosophy
- Prestigious engineering program at old school
- ★AP Scholar with Distinction
- ★Cum Laude Society
Essay Topics
Wrote about connecting one of my biking trips to a life lesson regarding political philosophy
Wrote about leadership with debate club
Wrote about political volunteering
Wrote about computer science opportunities
Wrote about economics
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Performance/Outcome: Exceedingly average
- Oberlin College
- Performance/Outcome: Average
- Princeton University
- Performance/Outcome: Average
- Dartmouth College
- Performance/Outcome: Decent, there was a connection
- Yale University
- Performance/Outcome: Awful, I got tripped up on multiple questions
- Harvard University
- Performance/Outcome: Literally incredible, interviewer understood me perfectly well and called me the best interview she's ever conducted. Best interview ever
- Stanford University
- Performance/Outcome: Great, a real, genuine conversation and even got a book rec out of it
- Brown University
- Performance/Outcome: Not counting the video essay
- Cornell University
- Performance/Outcome: Not counting the question session
CS teacher
He isn't a prolific writer but the content was very good (8/10)
Econ teacher
I was her best student, she loves me, I've given economics lectures to 3 of her classes this year and I don't even go to the school anymore (10/10)
School counselor
He got to know me pretty well and is great at writing LORs (9/10)
Philosophy teacher
I TA'ed his class second semester after taking it first and did independent study, but he didn't know me super well when he wrote his letter (9/10)
Math teacher 1
I had her in 8th grade taking her HS level math class and again freshman year (8/10)
Math teacher 2
She offered me an LOR without me asking because I TA'ed her class (8/10)
Lit teacher
Prolific writer, thinks I'm a prolific writer, thinks I'm a great philosopher, great relationship with her (10/10)
Gov teacher
She loved my enthusiasm but disagreed politically (7/10)
Old counselor
I didn't know him that well but he liked me (6/10)
Engineering teacher
Covered my interests and STEM abilities quite well (8/10)
Accepted (12)
Waitlisted (8)
Rejected (7)
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