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ArtistClass of 20233.8+1500+/34+art/hum
game design Applicant
Female · Asian · bay area, California · private
Income: upper middle class
Academic Profile
GPA (UW/W)
4.81 (UW)
ACT
35
AP Courses
13
Honors
6
AP Exams Taken
AP Art HistoryAP BiologyAP Calculus ABAP Calculus BCAP ChemistryAP Computer Science AAP English Language and CompositionAP English Literature and CompositionAP Environmental ScienceAP PsychologyAP StatisticsAP Studio ArtAP US History
Extracurricular Activities
- CMU's NHSGA summer programbuilt 3D environments and animations, learned C++ programming, was lead artist on two video game projects
- COSMOS at University of California, Irvinelearned R programming, led a final research project on cortisol levels in pregnant women and gave a presentation to 600 attendees
- Art-based non-profit organizationstarted with 70 members and raised over $20,000 during high school, organized 4 fundraisers each year with over 100 participants each time
- VP of NAHS clubdesigned and painted around 10 murals on high school campus and organized 2-3 art-based volunteering events at school
- Founder and President of Asian Arts and Culture cluborganized various arts and Asian culture events for school and city
- Research intern under Ph.D. student at Yalegathered research papers and did data cleaning
- Small business ownerstarted and ran a small business with 50 sales and 20,000 followers on Instagram
- Teacher's assistant at an art summer campvolunteered for 2 summers
- Academy of Art Universitytook classes and built a video game in Unity
- Member of JV tennis teamparticipated in junior varsity tennis
Awards & Honors
- ★Scholastic National Silver Medal
- ★6 Scholastic Gold Keys
- ★USABO semifinalist
- ★National stats award
- ★Description: [REDACTED
- ★Regional art competition
- ★Description: won and got piece shown in gallery
Essay Topics
Common App Essay
wrote about relationship with grandma and how drawing comics helped overcome language barrier, connected art to storytelling
Interview Experiences
- Yale University
- Performance/Outcome: connected over books but overall kind of dry
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Performance/Outcome: had a lot in common with interviewer, discussed extracurriculars, fit well at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of Southern California
- Performance/Outcome: interviewer seemed disinterested, conversation was dry
Letters of Recommendation
Calculus teacher
had a strong relationship, attended office hours regularly, skipped pre-calc and scored a 5 on the AP exam
Literature teacher
participated in class, wrote decent essays, helped edit college application essays
College Decisions
Accepted (12)
University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, DavisUniversity of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa CruzGeorgia Institute of TechnologyNew York UniversityPurdue UniversityRice UniversityUniversity of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Washington, SeattleWellesley CollegeUniversity of California, Berkeley
Waitlisted (5)
Brown UniversityUniversity of PennsylvaniaRhode Island School of DesignTufts UniversityUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Rejected (6)
University of California, Los AngelesUniversity of California, IrvineMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyYale UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityNortheastern University
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