Academics: 4.0/4.0 U/W, 4.35 W, 36 ACT, current courseload is 4 aps and 3 college courses, only was able to take 1 ap before this year (counselor let schools know) also taking a 300 lvl math course so maybe good?
Awards:
2x state math champions
2x state math champions… but as a team this time
Top 150 debaters in the country
Top 30 at some national tournament for debate
2x All state band
ECs:
-Founded a debate nonprofit with ~150 members with coaching+prep, got partnered with a really big NPO and personally coached someone to winning a national tournament
-Project lead for another debate NPO (tens of thousands of ppl impacted)
-Debate
-Math team captain
-Music (practicing for competitions and ensemble stuff)
-Tutoring kids at a local church
-Semi-selective journalism camp
-ANOTHER debate NPO, the first one i partnered with recommended me and here I am (thousands)
-Music group at local church (volunteer)
LoRs (being rlly conservative on the rankings to not skew anything):
Physics teacher- 7/10, we had a good relationship but only for one semester
Math teacher- 8/10, sponsor for math team and great person, told me it was good so im hopeful
English teacher- 4/10, didnt know them too well but when we did interact it was really good (only for HMC)
NPO exec- 9.5-10/10, legit the best rec ive seen
Tutoring head- 7/10, theyre ESL but i read the rec and its good
Essays-
Commonapp- 7.5-8/10, wrote it as an extended metaphor between me doing an improv jazz solo and finding myself
UChicago supplements- 8/10, wrote about philosophy in regards to some song lyrics
Other general essays- 7.5/10, wrote mostly about how I love to solve and make logical paradoxes and also about the nonrpofit i founded and my personal connection to it, others were about the same but only for one or two schools so not detailing
Schools applying to (all math+cs or math+econ)
Colgate
CMC
HMC
Williams
Pomona
Haverford
Bowdoin
UChicago
Vanderbilt
As a general comment, for this combination of interests, a major in data science might be ideal. Through this path, you would combine statistics and computing to an applied domain, such as economics.
I hesitate to link this thread because it’s pretty late, but if you dont want to take a gap year, you might want to apply to a sure thing or two. Some places are still taking applications. You have the potential to get accepted at the schools on your list, but none are really a sure thing.
So…read this thread. Student was a very very strong student, like you, and no one expected that he wouldn’t get accepted to some college. But that is what happened. He did take a very successful gap year and applied to a new list of colleges the following year, including a couple of sure things. He really landed well on his feet. So there is that.
Thx, also if I don’t get in anywhere this year I still have senior year (I can’t graduate early unless I get in somewhere), sorry for the miscommunication (it wouldnt really be a gap year as much as just another HS year
You are graduating early? You are fortunate that you are able to continue next year if nothing pans out well for you this year. And it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world!
No, my school is letting me take the final for the one credit im missing if I get in somewhere, its something to do with state policy I think? but im not sure
