I really don’t know what these schools are looking for because I am happy I found this site but still I am happy I found it late not to have time to read many things compared to after we were done with all the applications.
Many of the students here including you your accomplishments are very impressive. I really don’t know what they saw in my daughter. Her SSAT were not that high that why we chose to stay away from the schools that required them. She is not an athlete nor a musician. Not much of leadership skills neither and very little volunteering experience but we applied to 11 schools and one magnet school. So total of 12 schools. She was accepted to 7 schools including the magnet school. She was rejected in one, Waitlisted in 4 and got off WL in 2 of those but we didn’t take.
So if I had time to read these accomplishments before we applied I would have opted not to apply to the schools we applied for the fear we would be just wasting our time. I guess is who they want.