I posted before but junior year finished up yesterday and also I got some new internships. Political science is my intended major.
Demographic (if this matters)- Asian male, socal, family makes 150-200k per year, upper middle class
Gpa/coursework- 3.93 UW 4.43 W, 4.21 capped W, 10 AP’s 5 honors. I took 2 years of Spanish, 4 years of math, English, and science. I tried to take honors/APs for these subjects whenever I could
EC’s-
Debate team (9-12th grade, varsity 10-12, on inaugural debate committee, two regional tournament performance awards)
Youth fellow w/ local congressman, things like phone banking, voter registration, fundraising, voter research, attending community events (11)
social justice club debate coordinator (11-12, club’s very new,one month old wanted to be a part of its growth, basically I help set up debates for new members)
Phone lobbying for youth activist organization, 15 calls per week to congressional representatives’ offices. Also a research intern for same organization, researching various governmental issues every week. This could be my biggest one in terms of impact because my predecessor had their research cited in bill analysis and shared in committee hearings/legislative meetings (11-12)
Library volunteering 100+ hrs (10-12), Teachers aide (11), rec basketball player (10), rec piano player (4-11 lol), goodwill work experience (11-12)
Essays- will be good I think, a’s in all my English classes and my strict AP lang teacher likes my essays (she is who I am ta ing for). Also I wrote quite a lot about my personal experiences in those essays and connected them to the topic of the essay, and got high grades.
Schools- ucsd/uci as main targets that I think I’m competitive for, ucla/berkeley for hard targets/reach. I think I am elc eligible if that makes a difference, I know I am in the top 15% of my junior class gpa wise, probably will be ELC.