Chance me please! chicago ed2 v rd

peanutbutterstan
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 14:10:21 +0000

chance me for uchicago ed2 vs rd!

i love chicago and i’m trying to decide if i should ed2 or if i should risk getting in via rd. i didn’t ed1 because i was still too undecided

demographics: female, south-east asian, fl, small private high school (on scholarship), full pay

have “extraneous circumstances” in counselor’s essay about mom being sick and dad traveling, having to take care of my younger brother, etc

speak english, telugu, and spanish

intended major: philosophy

act/sat/sat ii: 35 in every section, 10 on writing (first sitting). didn’t take sat ii’s because covid

uw/w gpa and rank: w: 5.1, uw: 3.86, school doesn’t rank

coursework/rigor:

12 aps in total (5 this year), 5’s and 4’s so far.

5 on human, psych, apush and 4 on bio, world, calc ab, lang.

taking us government, macroeconomics, literature, statistics, and enviro this year.

all my other classes were honors

awards:

royal conservatory piano exams up to level 6

national spanish exam level 3 honorable mention

ap scholar (soph year), ap scholar with distinction (junior year)

in school debate awards: academic excellence in speech and debate (9th), speech and debate top point leader (9-11), speech and debate leadership award (10th)

national merit commended scholar

publications:

wrote/published chapter in an anthology for a yale prof on the philosophy topic i want to go to grad school for

article for the un youth envoy

article on medium for a large non-profit/youth activism group

helped direct social media of a podcast with large and established media company

series of interviews and spoken word for aapi month

societies, clubs, extracurriculars:

speech and debate / grades 9, 10, 11, 12

national honor society / grades 10, 11

national english honor society / grades 10, 11

pre-med society / grades 9, 10, 11 (i used to be pre-med bc parents)

debate awards/comm service:

national speech and debate association ranked #1 in the state of florida and #5 in the usa

high school team event captain sophomore and junior year

high school team co-president junior year

national speech and debate association premier distinction, all state award, academic all-american award

co-president of an organization that gives resources to hs debaters who can’t afford private coaches or have large teams; planned lectures, demos, etc

mentor for organization that coaches young gender minorities in debate to combat sexism/trans*phobia in the activity

helped plan and organize free online summer debate camp for students who couldn’t afford it

qualified to various national tournaments and states (got to elims as a sophomore, had covid as a junior so i couldn’t go)

invited to exclusive round robins at various debate schools and university of florida

was fairly good at debate, got a lot of speaker awards and elims of most tourneys jr/sr year

judged over 30 hours at a variety of online debate tournaments run by peers for younger students to acquire practice

activism

regional director for march for our lives

press team (and other smaller roles) of a youth environmental activism org

interned with organization that gives educational resources to kids in bangladesh

community service

indian health initiative to provide anemia medicines to poor tribal

communities

free clinic in india to provide medical treatment to poor populations

founded, developed and co-directed a non-profit organization to provide free tutoring for foster kids/cancer patients who were struggling during remote learning (affiliated with large nonprofits)

fostered at a local shelter which had a surplus of kittens, cared for underweight/special needs kittens

essays:

common app: talked ab being love for charles dickens in elem school, going to a pwi when i was young, bulling, debate, etc. pretty good and a lot of ppl liked it (8.5/10)

u chi main: talked about philosophy program, wanting to be a professor when i grew up, other opportunities in chicago like working with chicago urban debate league (9/10)

u chi creative: picked the dividing by 0 prompt, connected it to linguistics and my own life. good really good feedback about this one, asked a bunch of t20 friends who helped revise it and said they really liked it (9.5/10)

lors:

counselor: really liked me and only has 8 students bc she’s head of dept, we had a lot of heart to hearts so she knows a lot about me (8.5/10)

ap psych teacher: wrote ab emotional intelligence and being a good peer/leader but idk how good she is at writing (7/10)

ap lang teacher: didn’t know me super well but i did good in her class and normally writes good letters (8/10)

school debate director: loved me, known me since middle school and talked ab how much i care about debate more than just competitive success, really good writer but barely writes kids letters unless he really likes you (10/10)

note: this post might be on here twice because my friend posted it for me on accident lol