Economics Applicant
Male · Mexican · East Coast · Public, Title I
🏷️ URM, First-Gen
Income: Less than 20,000 for a family of 7
AP Exams Taken
- Cornell University ResearchSurveyed 400 students on the role of alcoholism on social, academic, and economic performance; will be enacting school-wide policy/program reform to aid cause with a proposed budget over 125,000.
- Congressional InternSet up congressional events for 100+ policymakers and constituents; aided in socioeconomic issues such as providing affordable housing, asylum, unemployment benefits, etc., to 10+ people daily.
- Founder of Media PageMentored over 8,000 people about economics and entrepreneurship; collaborated with business founders on Forbes, NBC, etc.; provided funding for resources for hundreds of students.
- Family ResponsibilitiesSpent every Saturday grocery shopping and cooking for up to 10 people per week; assisted with tax and legal documents; tutored 7 siblings and cousins.
- T60 ResearchResearched the role of income on fast food consumption and public health issues; to be cited in the US Department of Agriculture.
- Co-founder, Comic Designer, and Media Manager of Comic PageSketched/animated over 300 comic episode strips and wrote over 40 pages of dialogue; amassed 50,000 impressions.
- ★Gates Scholarship Finalist
- ★Description: One of 600 out of 35,000 applicants.
- ★Mayoral Commendation
- ★International Civic Innovator
- ★National Grant Recipient
- ★National Hispanic Recognition Program
Essay Topics
Wrote about destroying baby photos and attaching each lost photo to a part of personality.
Salt harvesting and selling in rural Mexico.
Cornell research.
Wrote about abusive past in school and its impact on mentality; execution was poor.
Discussed how the American dream is meant to deprive POC.
- Yale University
- Performance/Outcome: None
- Stanford University
- Performance/Outcome: Woman loved the student so much she offered an internship at her international public health organization.
- Princeton University
- Performance/Outcome: Commented that the student was a great fit and should major in urban development.
- Carleton College
- Performance/Outcome: Said the student was a student many colleges will fight for.
- Bowdoin College
- Performance/Outcome: Said the student was a student many colleges will fight for.
- Middlebury College
- Performance/Outcome: Said the student was a student many colleges will fight for.
AP Stat
Commented on anxious behavior and noted that the student was his first student this century to score a 5 on the AP Stat exam; 6/10.
Chemistry
Research mentor; commented on ambition and drive to enact community change; 6/10.
Cornell Research
Described the student as one of the best of Latin America, with a work ethic above professors and policymakers, and maturity of a 30-year-old man; 9/10.
Accepted (23)
Waitlisted (7)
Rejected (1)
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