poli sci, creative writing Applicant
Female · caribbean-american, first-gen american · southeast america · public title 1
🏷️ URM, first-gen, queer
Income: 40k
AP Exams Taken
- re-elected president of my state's top slam poetry teamtrained poets, only high school student to be featured in art gallery, invited to speak at criminal justice reform panel/human rights festival, led and performed group piece after local tragedy during memorial and other events
- founder of POC writers space for youth via writing internship
- only high schooler on board of directors for mental health non-profitplanned grand opening, trained volunteers, assisted CEO, recruited psychologists, did advocacy, wrote blogs
- community court internclient intake for unhoused and criminal populations to reduce recidivism and homelessness, interviewed people and directed them to resources
- editor-in-chief of education law on a legal news website for teens
- youth council member for a popular domestic violence prevention organization
- UM summer law programmimicked a law school education, mock trial at the end
- very selective law mentorship programco-created a website pushing states to adopt body-positive legislature
- climate change activism via climate resiliency organization
- wrote how-to articles on basic tasks for human trafficking survivors struggling to reacclimate to society
- ★national student poet semi-finalist nominee
- ★state youth poet laureate ambassador
- ★scholastic gold medal/best-in-grade award
- ★youngarts spoken word honorable mention
- ★youngarts merit award in short story
- ★state slam competition 2x team finalist, 1x individual top 10 finalist
- ★the 1455 summer festival young poet finalist
- ★spencer b. king creative writing scholarship finalist
- ★public forum 1st place ranking
- ★district literary fair 1st place
- ★local poetry slam finalist
Essay Topics
wrote about my struggle with honesty as both a slam poet and a child in a physically and emotionally abusive environment. it was very hard to write and share with others, but everyone received it really well.
my supplements mostly gave context to my extracurriculars. one of my Brown University supplements was about my Jamaican culture and father's day with an abusive father. my University of Miami supplement was about my health issues with a joke about the toilets at UM. my University of Chicago essay was about my silence in response to a racist ex-friend.
- University of Pennsylvania
- Performance/Outcome: my interviewer sent me an email saying that my positive attitude, resilience, and hard work are a testament to who I am and the great things he's sure I'll go on to achieve. he believed that I deserved to go to penn and gave me the highest rating possible in his interview summary.
APUSH teacher
interesting guy, but always had really sweet things to say to me and somehow always found out about my poetry wins and congratulated me. told me I reminded him of another student who got into an ivy league and told me he saw me getting into one as well.
AP LANG teacher
describes me as someone my classmates look up to and says I remind her of her daughter.
Accepted (1)
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