Demographics
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US domestic
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Type of high school: public New England competitive hs
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Other special factors: none unless being queer counts (reported on application)
Cost Constraints / Budget
technically could afford pricier schools but would prefer not to (saving money for law school)
Intended Major(s): Public Policy!! or poli sci
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
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Unweighted HS GPA: 4.0
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Weighted HS GPA: 4.67
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attempt to calculate UC GPA: 4.3~
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ACT/SAT Scores: 1540 SAT (1520 PSAT) → I know they don’t look at it but just here for yalls info!
List your HS coursework
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English: AP Literature, honors English prev 3 years
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Math: AP Calculus AB, AP Stats, honors math 3 years
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Science: AP Chem, Bio, Environmental Science, Honors Physics
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History and social studies: AP Euro, AP Psych, APUSH, other honors courses
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Language other than English: AP Spanish, honors prev 3 years
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Visual or performing arts: not much tbh besides minimum requirements
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Other academic courses: normal phys. ed, arts classes to graduate,
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completed all A-G requirements
Awards
Girls Nation Senator (2025)
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1 of 102 delegates selected from 20,000 contenders
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Won sponsored trip to D.C. to participate in mock senate
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selected from state-wide girls state program
National Merit Semifinalist (2024)
Girl Scout Gold Award (2025)
Governors Citation
Presidential Volunteer Service Gold Award x2
Extracurriculars
- Education and Equity Chair of Governor’s Youth Council → accepted proposal and leading 35 council members, researched and proposed policies
- Town Commission Co-Chair (acc local government) + Liaison to school body → created events, a public incident tracker, engaged a lot of community members, first student commissioner
-fellow for state-based nonprofit and founder of summit → engaging 200 statewide students and 10 speakers, advocating for specific legislation, received 1.5k stipend
-cofounded local cultural event created in response to local issue → 3500 annual attendees, received a grant and raised 10k for a nonprofit, became a 3 town event, town issue was addressed
-research assistant on education topic @ HYPSM (PAID) → reviewed cases and researched global educational policy thru fieldwork partnerships
-research assistant on misinformation and partisanship @ HYPSM → studied Econ games, learned qualtrics, analyzed survey data and policy trends, created survey stimuli
- legislative intern for statehouse representative → authored legislation that will be submitted to joint committee on education next session, other various interny things
-Girl Scout (self explanatory loll)
- president of cultural club → 10 to 30 members, worked with admin on policy change and created school wide initiatives
-speech and debate → top 5 in event in my state, team mentor (not captain ;-
-karate → 3x local champion, black belt, teacher (imp info: sole female sparrer in dojo, recruited more women)
- team lead at local food gleaner organization
-edx course on citizen politics
-service for a fandom community solving a specific issue
PIQs
Prompt 1) learning to balance between realism and idealism in leadership
Prompt 6) taking a very unique/specific class at my high school and what I took from it and got interested in policy/education (tied together with a little something something I can’t go into more detail with lol)
Prompt 7) starting my town cultural event → connected into cultural exchange
Prompt 8) running a service helping members of a specific fandom community! working to solve a problem in that community and 3 traits I learned in process
Schools
uc berkeley
ucla (I would be so so happy I love the education and social transformation program)