Good stats + meh ec's prospective shotgunner

emmmaaaaaa
Sat, 25 Dec 2021 03:53:15 +0000

Demographics

US Citizen, from Virginia

Public high school (2k kids, ~1200 avg SAT)

Asian female, upper middle class, suburban area, no hooks

Intended Major(s): Economics/international relations/public policy/linguistics
Econ as main choice because I desire employment + other ones just for fun

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

Unweighted HS GPA: 4.0

Weighted HS GPA: i don’t know, only rank

Class Rank: tied (with like 14 people) for 1/547

ACT/SAT Scores: 1600, only sitting

Coursework
13 APs, 13 honors; math up to multivar and language up to 5/AP
Calc BC (5), APUSH (5), Eng Lang (4), Physics 1 (5), Econ (5s), US Gov (5)
Some extra DE classes in history, poly sci, econ, language, etc.

Awards
NSLI-Y scholar
DECA icdc finalist 2x
Harvard IR scholar thing
ISEF finalist but 9th grade
national merit final / that ap test thing

Extracurriculars

1. Model UN Officer (no ranks): team of ~50, run simulations for novices, review position papers, organize committees, etc. all that

2. Translation stuff: translated like 300+ hours of speech b/t English, work w some friends and experimenting w machine learning to automate. made low thousands from it since. also translated, like, a whole novel series on my own.

3. “activism”?: bandwagoned with some friends trying to push back our school’s start time and now i have a seat on the school board’s steering committee for the issue?

4. Euro + Fed Challenge (co-founder): pretty new club but we’ve done pretty well

5. Investing club/personal portfolio: self-explanatory. decent returns.

6. Language stuff: made my own language and writing system for it

7. Part-time job: boba shop near my house. year-round, inc. summers usually

8. piano stuff: some paid transcription and arrangement mostly. no awards, oof

9. bonsai trees: kept some really old ones alive since i was ten. an essay on this lmao

Essays/LORs/Other
Pretty good imo but relatively average for applicants, I imagine; won’t move the needle

Cost Constraints / Budget
luckily no restrictions here

Schools
Already got accepted EA into UVA, so just thinking of firing off some shotgun applications since I have the time and a lot of the essays already written—just wanna know if it’s worth it with my profile as a comparatively average ORM applicant. Thinking about ED2 to UChicago or just seeing how all my other RD apps turn out.