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EconomistClass of 20223.8+1500+/34+socsci
Economics Applicant
Male · White · Bay Area · Mid-Tier Private Catholic School
Income: Upper Class
Academic Profile
GPA (UW/W)
3.86 (UW)
SAT
1550
AP Courses
6
Honors
2
AP Exams Taken
Calc ABPsychLang
Extracurricular Activities
- Internship at a BB Bank's Wealth Management Division
- Photography Business with 2 Million yearly views on social media, worked with clients such as Toyota
- Backpacking 500 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail over summer
- Internship in data collection related to soccer statistics at a Fortune 500 company
- Youth academy player for a European pro soccer team's American youth academy, and played on JV
- Founder of a company that worked with international soccer teams
- Corporate Strategy intern at a local startup
- Newspaper Editor
- Photography club president
- Volunteer soccer referee
Awards & Honors
- ★Major photography award
- ★Other major photography award (3x)
- ★NMS Recognized
Essay Topics
Common App Essay
Photography and culture
Interview Experiences
- Dartmouth College
- Performance/Outcome: Solidly mid and homie grilled me with brain teasers
- Harvard University
- Performance/Outcome: Went hella good
- University of Pennsylvania
- Performance/Outcome: Interviewer was going on a run and kept asking about my GPA and why my 4.2 was so low
- Middlebury College
- Performance/Outcome: Interviewer was a finance bro who played on Midd's soccer team and it went so well
- Rochester
- Performance/Outcome: Most awkward interview ever, and I literally knew nothing about Rochester
- Georgetown University
- Performance/Outcome: Only in-person interview and we spent a lot of the time talking about college parties
- Columbia-Sciences Po Dual BA program
- Performance/Outcome: Spent 30-40 hours preparing for this interview because it was informational and grounded in Econ knowledge
Letters of Recommendation
French Teacher
Had her for 3 years and she loved me—counselor said it was one of the best she's ever seen
AP Calc AB Teacher
Never talked to him once and only had him virtually—counselor said it was still a good letter of rec
College Decisions
Accepted (10)
Indiana University BloomingtonFordham UniversityUniversity of RochesterHamilton CollegeLehigh UniversityColumbia UniversityEmory UniversityColby CollegeTufts UniversityGeorge Washington University
Rejected (15)
Yale UniversityDartmouth CollegeBrown UniversityHarvard UniversityUniversity of PennsylvaniaNorthwestern UniversityAmherst CollegeGeorgetown UniversityWilliams CollegeVanderbilt UniversityClaremont McKenna CollegeUniversity of Notre DameWashington University in St. LouisNortheastern UniversityVillanova University
Profile Tags
ResearchLeadershipClubPhotographyVolunteeringInternshipEntrepreneurAdvanced Coursework (AP/IB/Dual Enrollment)Academic CompetitionCreative Writing