I never thought I would do anything like this, but I’m freaking out because EA decisions come out this month. So, I thought “why not?”
Objective:
GPA - 4.12 W, 3.9 UW
ACT- 33 (M 35 E 31 R 31 S 33 W 9)
SAT Subject - Biology M: 800 Math II: 800
Rank: Does not report, but I know it is top 10%
Ethnicity: Asian Male (International Applicant from South Korea)
Small Christian Private School (they claim to be top 20 in KC area)
Courseload: Our school doesn’t have AP instead it has dual-credit classes. If you pay for the dual credit, they list them as college courses, and if you don’t pay, they list them as honors. So honors=college. I wrote this in the ad info section in common app as well.
Sophomore Year: Honors Elem Spanish I/II (A-, A-), Honors American History I/II (A-,A-)
Junior Year: College Calculus (A), Honors Intermediate Spanish I/II (A-, A) , Honors Major World Religions (A) Honors Western Civ I/II (A-, A)
Senior Year: Honors Stats, College Eng I/II, Honors Geography, Physics, Honors Government, Economics
9th-11th grade: I’ve taken 48 courses (semester based: 8 per semester), got 32 As, 15 A- s, and 1 B (Freshman Year)
Took the most rigorous courses our school offers
Subjective:
Ecs:
Clubs - Student Council(3 years: Member), Global Connect (4 years: President), Varsity Soccer (3 years), Varsity Track (3 years), Korean Club (Half year: Cadet), Math Corner Tutor
For Global Connect, we just did an art supplies drive going to Burkina Faso, Africa. Raised about 400$ + supplies.
Work experience: Intern for school’s international program (made resources for a class at school, making a website and a book for the program), Interned for a shoes brand called Gurus in Korea and did market research (2 weeks), staff volunteer (for a new cashmere brand launch at a fashion press conf; worked to provide service to attendees such as drink orders and assisted in cleaning)
Volunteer - Church for 4 years: mission trips: china and korea, redid the lights inside the church in a military base, commodities giving, etc
Openhands (Non-Profit) for 4 years: mission trip to phillipines, painted a school, worked at events to raise $1200, participated in a bazaar to raise money for a library in Cambodia, etc
Uniseed - worked with North Korean defectors to raise money for people in North Korea
GivUEffect - participated in flashmob to help a BigIssue stand
Awards - principle’s honor roll, honor roll, scholar athlete, Calculus regional team tournament 1st place, article contest finalist
Essay - Common App (8.5/10): For wash u, I know a previous AO that helped me with the essay
Emory Supplements (8/10): 150 words were kind of short
UC Essays (9/10): A berkeley graduate I know worked with me (felt confident about them)
Major: Economics (UC schools), Religious studies (Wash U), Business (rest of the schools)
Accepted: Beloit College (Presidential Scholarship)
Applied:
Case Western (EA)
UCB
UCLA
WASH U (ED)
Emory (ED II if I don’t get in Wash U)
Tulane (EA)
UIUC (EA)
Will Apply
Carnegie Mellon (RD)
Cornell (Maybe)
Rice (Maybe)
U of Richmond (RD)
Boston College (RD)
Pepperdine (RD)
Additional Info Section: Wrote about my education history (studied in Korea, India, and US), wrote about why I had to take a esl for 3 years, wrote about out college/honors classes, wrote about why my weighted GPA is low when I mostly got As and A-s.
Ps. I’m applying for financial aid at Wash U, Tulane, U of Richmond, Pepperdine, Cornell (Maybe), Rice (Maybe)
Chance me plz! and also if you know any other schools that have a good business program/religious studies and meets my scores, I’ll be glad to know!