Match HS Asian female junior with business schools

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  1. Agree with @tsbna44’s post.

  2. I would drop your Wharton alum CEO LoR. For a start, from your description it is unlikely that s/he knows enough about you from a work perspective that it will be additive to your application, secondly it’s not going to count as much as you think- there are a lot of Wharton alums out there; and finally you should never ask somebody for an LOR if you don’t think that they can & will give you a strong A rating. It makes no sense to send in an LoR that is only a C/D rating. Fwiw, your notes seem to equate a friendly relationship with getting a good LoR. It’s not whether they ‘like’ you or joke around with you- it’s their ability to write about what they know of you, (academically, as a member of the class/EC/other, etc) and your potential- ideally with specifics. LoRs that address things such as intellectual curiosity, persistence through challenges, showing leadership when nobody is looking, etc. are what get attention- and often the people who are best at writing those letters are perceived by students as being the ‘hardest’ (even ‘meanest’!) teachers- b/c they ask for a lot of from students and keep pushing to get it. Also, most schools want 3 LoRs total- your GC, a STEM & a Humanities. Think hard about what, specifically, an extra LoR brings to the party, before you submit an extra one (much less 2). And, remember that on average the AO will spend 7-10 minutes reading your whole file!

  3. As presented, your ECs mostly need tightening / shaping. You have a lot that are new this year- be aware that if I noticed that suddenly you have seventy eleven Important Sounding ECs as a Junior and wondering if this is an effort to pack your CV for college apps, AOs will be even more attuned to that phenomenon. Trim, tighten, focus, prioritize what’s really important to you. That doesn’t mean you can’t put them down, but think about how you order them, and what you do going forward. You can always talk about how you took what you have learned from x & y and folded that into z- that shows continuity, growth, discernment, etc.

  4. Please never write the phrase “my passion for business” again.

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