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Chance an unusual Asian Male
uelliot
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Any info is appreciated!
Demographics:
Rising senior from Irvine, Cal
Asian male with upper-mid class family income (rip)
School: very open with the type of school, preferably out of state however
Intended major: Political Science, Law, Business, English, Philosophy
Stats:
Garbage GPA 4.02 weighted, 3.74 unweighted (4.23 weighted 10-12)
SAT: 1570 (770 writing 800 math) in summer of freshman year
SAT subject tests: 800 in math 2, expecting a high 700 in USH, mid 700 with Literature
APs: 5s in APUSH, Calc AB, APHUG and 4s in Physics 1, Literature, and Physics C (i took physics c and literature outside of the school)
Senior Year course list
- AP Compsci
- AP Lang
- AP Stats
- AP Physics C
- AP Macro
- Honors Gov (don't offer AP)
- Band
- no language
ECs:
- Professional ghostwriting for novels - ghostwriting action/adventure novels for online clients, have made over 5000 dollars
- Started my own local streetwear business and made over 500 dollars, registered name in California business name database
- 7-8 years of clarinet
- 3 years in an honors chamber music group earning over 2000 dollars in scholarships together and earning the opportunity to tour internationally
- consistently first chair in all of middle school to high school
- Police Explorers - over 300 hours of volunteering in police uniform in public events like marathons, parades, etc.
- Recording and selling CDs of my clarinet playing for Smile Train for 80 volunteer hours
- Summer internship from sophomore-junior at a medium-sized streetwear business, doing inventory, tech support, etc.
- Summer internship from junior-senior at a venture capital fund, doing research and surveys
- California Boys State this summer, ran for and won Senator
- Produced electronic music and numerous songs under an alias, acquired over 100 million views on youtube, started in 7th grade and ended in 9th grade
- Co-founded the Cash For Good club, which takes microloans from students and uses the money to fund small businesses in countries like India and Pakistan.
Awards:
2nd place award in 9th grade for regional clarinet solo competition
1st place award in 10th grade for regional clarinet solo competition
Published a research paper on the environmental effects of fast fashion and its solutions to a journal
Gold presidential service award in 2018, completed over 100 hours of volunteer work outside of Police Explorers
First Place in the International Summa Cum Laude Music Festival with Clarinet in Vienna, Austria
Essays:
I've already been working on my essays, I'm interested in sticking out with a possible streetwear culture angle to my essays. Also considering driving home my practicality, etc.
Recs: two decent recs
Schools:
UCs, UMich, Tufts, Emory, Georgetown, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Northwestern
if you can reverse chance me thatll also be highly appreciated, thanks guys
36 replies Demographics:
Rising senior from Irvine, Cal
Asian male with upper-mid class family income (rip)
School: very open with the type of school, preferably out of state however
Intended major: Political Science, Law, Business, English, Philosophy
Stats:
Garbage GPA 4.02 weighted, 3.74 unweighted (4.23 weighted 10-12)
SAT: 1570 (770 writing 800 math) in summer of freshman year
SAT subject tests: 800 in math 2, expecting a high 700 in USH, mid 700 with Literature
APs: 5s in APUSH, Calc AB, APHUG and 4s in Physics 1, Literature, and Physics C (i took physics c and literature outside of the school)
Senior Year course list
- AP Compsci
- AP Lang
- AP Stats
- AP Physics C
- AP Macro
- Honors Gov (don't offer AP)
- Band
- no language
ECs:
- Professional ghostwriting for novels - ghostwriting action/adventure novels for online clients, have made over 5000 dollars
- Started my own local streetwear business and made over 500 dollars, registered name in California business name database
- 7-8 years of clarinet
- 3 years in an honors chamber music group earning over 2000 dollars in scholarships together and earning the opportunity to tour internationally
- consistently first chair in all of middle school to high school
- Police Explorers - over 300 hours of volunteering in police uniform in public events like marathons, parades, etc.
- Recording and selling CDs of my clarinet playing for Smile Train for 80 volunteer hours
- Summer internship from sophomore-junior at a medium-sized streetwear business, doing inventory, tech support, etc.
- Summer internship from junior-senior at a venture capital fund, doing research and surveys
- California Boys State this summer, ran for and won Senator
- Produced electronic music and numerous songs under an alias, acquired over 100 million views on youtube, started in 7th grade and ended in 9th grade
- Co-founded the Cash For Good club, which takes microloans from students and uses the money to fund small businesses in countries like India and Pakistan.
Awards:
2nd place award in 9th grade for regional clarinet solo competition
1st place award in 10th grade for regional clarinet solo competition
Published a research paper on the environmental effects of fast fashion and its solutions to a journal
Gold presidential service award in 2018, completed over 100 hours of volunteer work outside of Police Explorers
First Place in the International Summa Cum Laude Music Festival with Clarinet in Vienna, Austria
Essays:
I've already been working on my essays, I'm interested in sticking out with a possible streetwear culture angle to my essays. Also considering driving home my practicality, etc.
Recs: two decent recs
Schools:
UCs, UMich, Tufts, Emory, Georgetown, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Northwestern
if you can reverse chance me thatll also be highly appreciated, thanks guys
Replies to: Chance an unusual Asian Male
lol my mom was a former admission officer at a T20 school (not going to name for anonymity) & counselor and it was just a suggestion bc a lot of the OP ec's show a more business spike.
The business experience is barely there and making money is no tip to a top college. Eyes glaze over. Other than music and Boys State, what do you do with hs peers. Do you understand what your target colleges look for?
Btw, OP doesn'tt have real spike and that's a good thing. But he needs to figure how to make sense of this jumble, what matters most. This isn't a coherent list. It's possible he really wants STEM. Or finance. Sorry, OP, but you need to qualify for us.
Would this change any of your considerations in your opinion?
In addition, you seem to be the only person in a wide range of people I've asked that says my ghostwriting and business experience is not very unique to admission officers (no hard feelings btw). Can you possibly explain why you think this way? I'm always open to hearing different perspectives. Again, thanks for the feedback.
I'll also like to add that I really, really detest STEM. It's one of the reasons my GPA is so low, and I would not even think of doing a STEM major or job ever.
And, why stats instead of Calc BC? schools are different, but in the schools our lot went to, that would not be considered a very demanding senior course load.
And no, I'm not retaking Physics C. I'm satisfied with my score because I didn't take the class for it.
As other posters have noted 'the plural of anecdote is not data'. For schools that look at rigor, Calc BC (the natural follow on to AB in many schools) > Stats.. And taking out physics from your senior courseload reduces the rigor.
OP, it's not about a count of xx big things, with titles or awards. You have a lot of music, which you'll likely need to condense for the activities section. 80 hours recording music isn't the sort of community service top colleges want- they like real community engagement, hands on, outside of your usual comfort zone. Starting a biz is not, in itself a tip (and it sounds like a solo experience.) Despite not wanting stem, you have AP comp sci planned, physics C. Etc. And as said, your stem scores are stronger than the others.
I think adcoms may be confused what you really want. Breadth is great. But this feels like a jumble. I think you can stop, rethink it all, and improve it. You want to learn what the different colleges value and decide how you can show that.
Also there is nothing wrong with not taking Calculus BC after AB. The OP’s course schedule is rigorous enough and the AP scores are all 4s and 5s.
The concern might be no mention of a foreign language in the course schedule, as most Top 20 schools like to see an FL taken to at least Level 4.
Do you have any particular reason you would take those particular colleges off my list? Do they have certain patterns regarding admissions? I appreciate the answers.
In addition, would colleges consider the intensive volunteering of Police Explorers (where I am always interacting with the public, directing traffic, giving directions, etc.) an instance of community service?