<p>I think I posted this on the last page, but ill do it again. This is primarily what I put on my app, thats it. Id upload my resume, but I dont think you can do it on here. SO this is what I put on the whole “what volunteer activities did you do”</p>
<p>I started two businesses. One is called Today’s Readers Tomorrow’s Leaders (TRTL) and Youth Literacy Initiative (YLI). Today’s Readers Tomorrow’s Leaders (TRTL) is a nonprofit pending approval that I started during high school by myself. Youth Literacy Initiative (YLI) is both a volunteer and community program and soon to be legal corporation. The mission of TRTL (and basically YLI as well) is to improve education and literacy rates around the world for disadvantaged youth. Today’s Readers Tomorrow’s Leaders (TRTL) and the Youth Literacy Initiative (YLI) organize book drives in local communities and send the books to homeless shelters, hospitals, poor schools, and other institutions where disadvantaged youth reside in. We have collected over 800 books from our book drives. In addition, we send educational packets to children’s homeless shelters, and make audio-visual recordings of public domain books. We are in the process of making educational videos that teach the fundamentals of Math and English, establishing a pen pal program with schools outside of America, and translating the educational packets do we can send them to schools outside of America. We are also setting up literacy programs with schools outside of America. We have volunteers in over 22 states across the USA and we have some international volunteers in Japan and India. I started and hired some bloggers to blog about the company and about general educational issues and events. We recently received the Disney Friends for Change grant adn recognition from Youth Service America as well as local newspaper recognition [however i didnt put the Disney grant, YSA recognition in my BoA application]. We were also chosen to be a partner of the Presidential Volunteer Service Awards (PVSA). We’re having a huge event on Global Youth Service Day (April 27th) in Washington D.C, so if ya’ll are in the area visit, if your bored. Im also in the midst of starting literacy programs in Washington D.C over the summer [One of the main reason why I chose to do BoA instead of this state department travel abroad scholarship]</p>
<p>Also, ive done 4 internships at the Smithsonian [Research assistant in the vertebrate zoology department and youth intern], National Building Museum [helped with a community service program], worked on the Mitt Romney campaign [IM NOT A REPUBLICAN AT ALL. I just wanted to be busy during the summer], and United States Korean Arts Foundation [ I am not korean. I was the only non-korean. It was sooooo awk]</p>
<p>Other volunteer experiance: Weekly volunteer at Jill’s House [helps mentally handicapped children], mentor in a mentorship program, apart of a community teen council (and hopefully will be VP next year), volunteered at a daycare where children had mothers who drank during preganancy, apart of the Fairfax County Youth Governing Board [havent really shown up to a meeting tho], and a few other volunteer programs.</p>
<p>***That was basically what i put on my application. Or at leats the things i remember. It was so long ago haha. I didn’t really expect to get in because I heard how fierce the competition was. Glad i did! </p>
<p>Essays: I wrote a lot about my nonprofit and my outreach program and how I coordinated it even though my board members were from all across the nation and handilling those diffiuclties of location diffrences (time diffrences) and working and dealing with other leaders
FOr the person I admired, I talked about this mentally handicapped girl that I worked with who inspired me to make a greater diffrence in the world for people. I did most of my essays in a day. Sure they had grammar and spelling mistakes since im very prone to them and I didnt get them checked (last minute app).</p>
<p>*******I dont know if this matters, but im also a junoir. I dont know if thier more prone to junoirs and senoirs.</p>