Hey! I recently applied to a bunch of schools including NYU Stern, Cornell (Econ, Comp Sci), Brown, Wellesley, CMU (Tepper), Lehigh and Georgetown. I didn’t apply to any safeties because I already got into Indiana’s Kelley School of Business with a decent scholarship.
Classes: All honors
5 APs Junior Year (Lang 5, Comp Sci 4, Calc AB 5, Bio 4, APUSH 4)
4 APs Senior Year (Lit, Comp Sci Prin, Stat, Macro)
GPA: 3.7/4.0 (unweighted)…4.2 weighted (top 8-12%) at one of the better high schools in my state
SAT: 1560
SAT 2: 780 Bio E, 780 Math 2
Extracurriculars
President/Founder of The Coding Girls - taught 500 girls (regional nonprofit), 10 chapters in different schools, partnered with a few other organizations (Powered by Girl, Her Culture etc)
President Geek League (library tech help)
Principal’s Leadership Academy
Principal’s Council Executive Board
Technology Director of a Harvard Non Profit (on Venture Program)
Volunteer Services of the Arts - Special Needs Music Teacher
Editor, Exec Board Model UN (Nationals, North American Invitational, bunch of awards)
Vice Pres Hindu Society
Science Olympiad (2nd state anatomy, 6th region bio blitz, 4th state forestry)
Science League (Biology 2 - school 8th in state)
Her Culture - Blog Editor, Magazine Writer, Blog Writer
Clover Letter - Remote Intern, Article Contributor, Brand Ambassador
Her Campus High School Ambassador
Intern for Phil Murphy (governor’s election)
Intern for AXA insurance
Intern for Marketing Consulting Firm in Trenton, NJ
Sand Cloud Brand Ambassador
Writing on Her Culture, Powered by Girl, Spark Blogger, Clover Letter, hopefully germ magazine too
Oh and if you haven’t figured this out yet by my ecs, I’m an Indian girl (middle class). I came here when I was 1. And I’m an intern for a lot of places simply because I needed to make more than minimum wage but also wanted good ecs in fields i am interested in (I worked 25-30ish hours a week) which I talked about in the additional information section.
My common app was taking risks during mun and was well, casual and fun with still good lanugage.