Okay so hoping my classmates do NOT find this Lol because lowkey I’m just curious about my outcome for the Huntsman Program.
Demographics.
I’m a Indian Citizen, IB Student, applying from India, but I’ve spent most of my life living outside India (Grade 11-12 in India, but before that Nairobi, HK, and Manila)
IB/International School in India
Cost Constraints / Budget
Full-pay International, but not sure about what my income is?
Intended Major(s): Huntsman Program as major 1, Wharton as major 2.
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
41 out of 42 IB Predicted, 43 out of 45.
(4 HLs)
7 in AA (Math) HL, 7 in Econ HL, 7 in Business HL, 6 in English Lang/Lit HL, 7 in Physics, and 7 in Spanish (Finished exam one year early)
Did IB HL Math AI and IB Spanish SL in Grade 10 if that counts.
School does not have like a normal IB grade boundaries system and has insanely high grade boundaries (newly started my year). So like my old school GPA a solid 6.6/7 but my new school GPA like a 6.0/7 which honestly still = straight A’s, but the lower GPA is because of both the IB boundaries vs school boundaries thing, and the fact that for one of my classes, the final submission didn’t play and I got a 0 on it, hence really tanking my GPA.
ACT/SAT Scores:
1540/1600
760 Reading, 780 Math.
Awards:
Spanish. (Best in Grade), and Community Service (1 of 1) in grade after joining the school.
Extracurriculars (As Stated in Huntsman Resume)
- Marketing Intern at International Education Social Enterprise:
- Reported to the Head of Sales and Partnerships
- Supported promotion of social-film-making contest in international schools, aiming to encourage
- investigation and communication of local issues, while equipping students with 21 century skills.
- Conducted market research with students, teachers, and administrators; compiled strategic insights; formulated reccomendations.
- Insights shared by supervisor to company co-founders, helping inform product development and global sales strategy.
- Social Justice Club Founder
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Founded the Social Justice Club/DEIJ after joining my New School
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Recruited 10 members over 14 months
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Supported mental wellbeing curricula in local schools through social entrepreneurship
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Promoted cultural and religious diversity through interviews with students/faculty.
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Launched a content creation competition about social justice activists,
received submissions from student groups across 4 grades
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Represented social justice in annual course review, and co-facilitated HS faculty professional development session on DEI (Old School, Grade 9/10)
- Executive (Leader) | Student Council
- 1 of 5 elected executives (highest position) by > 220 students + faculty council, 5 months after joining.
- Pioneered Teacher, Admin, and Support Staff Appreciation on Valentines Day
- Revived STUCO Executive participation in New Student Orientation
- Transforming school assemblies through interactive grade competitions
- Worked collaboratively to oversee >6000 USD in Revenue Over 8 Month
- Exchange Program Advocacy
- Advocated for exchange programs when cancelled due to safeguarding restrictions.
- Spent 100+ hours researching 25 years of exchange data and testimonials, and standpoints of dozens of international schools.
- School Director = No Objections, Then Forwarded the PPT presentation to international school directors in 7 countries (regional association).
- Research
- Wrote a 4000 word socio-linguistic essay on how college consultants (across websites, interviews, and reels) transactionalize education and are kind of messing it all up: used Critical Discourse Analysis and Halliday’s representational functions of language.
- ~C1 Fluency in Spanish?
Minor: Content Creation - Played Flute to Try and Reduce Other People’s IG addiction by using brain-rot hooks but switching to longer form flute playing (to try and increase their attention span, like a challenge).
Essays/LORs/Other:
Main themes were education entrepreneurship, learning about different cultures, and social justice.
I would say my PS is incredibly strong. It’s about my moral transformation and journey and how a intellectual provocation made by a teacher during 7th grade forced me to question social justice inequalities in the world, how hearing about Peter Norman inspired me, and how these lessons years later I started a DEIJ club at my new school in India.
My Huntsman essay was about education entrepreneurship and essentially how the program would allow me to be an education entrepreneur, by creating a global exchange program company, starting with international schools (where I already did some research/advocacy), all in an effort to boost multi-cultural exposure and combat apathy. (I obviously connected this to the programs professors who are good at designing cultural learning pedagogy, and the program’s exchange program which would allow me to learn about what I’m about to create).
My language essay was about how Spanish became an avenue for self-expression and learning the language helped me learn more about the culture.
Thank You Essay: to my 1st grade teacher for giving me some real memories
Why Penn/Community: Said i’d want to welcome the new students after years of being a student ambassador but then being the new student, said I’d love to join the Chica Latina Org, said i’d love to join the DEI consulting club, how I’d love to see snow for the first time, and how I’d go on runs in the nearby park to Penn.
Why Wharton: Amazing to study sociology interdisciplinary? (connected to my previous research) Would love to take the GSE class on education entrepreneurship, Adam Grant Talks and Ethics class will help me become a purpose-drive leader.
LORs: Spanish Teacher, English/TOK/EE Teacher, Math AA teacher - all are amazing, my Spanish teacher highlighted my perfect scores and how I was approaching C1 fluency in Spanish.
Schools
Applying to Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, NYU, Stanford, and UCLA/Berkely as well if that counts. Great if you could chance me for any of the above schools, but Huntsman is my absolute priority.