Middle cycle recap from a 16 year old reapplicant (junior yr) whos way too good at teaching and way too bad at being under 6 feet tall
Title clarification, im a current senior, my first cycle was jr year
GPA: 4.0/4.45, 5/268
Courses: 7 APs all 4 and 5, 10 DE with 3 higher lvl math courses up to abstract algebra
36 ACT
Major: Business at schools with a dedicated B school, math/philosophy/linguistics at all others
Domestic from AL, noncompetitive public school and bad school district, wasian male feminist and 6'5", 174 LSAT first PT (-0 on both LR)
Awards/Honors:
- Top 30 at natl debate tournament
- Ranked top 150 in US in debate
- Pretty good award at intl music competition
- State champs for math (team)
- 3rd at state for math (individual)
Extracurriculars:
- Founded debate tutoring org for debaters w/o school program, coached kids w/o a program to 7 TOC bids+3 full quals+multiple top speaker awards+multiple natl tournament champs+$72k valuation+estimated to be by far the best student coach in the US (world?)
- Director of debate at one of the largest speech+debate nonprofits, directed production of substantial part of $311k of free speech and debate resources including 1000+ pages, 3000+ debaters reached thru lectures, and camps.
- Hired debate coach at fairly well known private school, coached 2 CFL quals and state champs in first month of coaching
- Codirected an online debate camp (5x previous enrollment, 20->100)
- Competed in debate, see awards above for the bigger achievements but I also competed w/o any school support and 3rd in state
- Solo bassoonist, see awards above
- Math team captain
- Volunteer tutor @ local Korean school
- Semi selective summer journalism camp
Essays:
Common app is 8.5/10 ish
School specific probably averaging 8.5-9/10, 10/10 diversity essay
LORs:
AP Lit teacher: 10/10 (best in 3+ years)
AP Physics teacher: 8/10
Counselor: 7/10
Accepted:
Stony Brook EA
FSU RD+honors
UF RD+honors+URSP (top 2% of accepted students)
Waitlists:
UChicago AGAIN (2 years in a row)
Rejected:
Yale REA (no interview?)
Emory Woodruff scholarship
RD:
UPenn Wharton
Cornell Dyson
Harvard (government) (no interview?)
Columbia (urban studies)
Brown
Dartmouth (7/10 interview)
Northwestern
NYU
UChicago
Williams
Amherst
Colgate (accepted as a jr, i couldnt go because my hs didnt let me, please dont make the whole comments section abt this)
Emory