my mother attended Harvard for her undergraduate years. She donates and is an interviewer for the school. Apparently admissions has a list of names of the children (who are currently applying) of alumni interviewers.
Here are my stats:
Objective:
-I attend a small public charter school (highest performing high school in LA based off of SBAC results)
-white male from CA
-UW GPA: 4.0
-W GPA: 4.79 (no ranking)
-ACT: 34 super score (36E 33M 31R 34S 30W) two sittings, 32 single
-I take the hardest offered course load
AP tests: Lang (4)
APES (4)
*My school doesn't offer APs, but we have to test into all of our honors classes
High School Schedule:
9th grade:
-Honors English 9
-Chemistry
-Honors Algebra II
-PE
-Art I
-Spanish I
10th grade:
-Honors Trig/Precalc
-Honors World History
-Honors World Literature
-Physics
-Spanish II
-Honors Biology
11th grade:
-Honors Environmental Science
-Honors Calc AB
-Honors American Literature
-Honors US History
-Spanish III
-Computer Science
12th grade:
-Honors Calc BC
-Honors Stats
-Honors Gov Econ
-Honors British Literature
-Honors Spanish 4
-H Enviro TA
Subjective:
-ECs:
-FREERUNNING (like parkour or American Ninja Warrior)
-I practice around 15-20hrs a week and was recently hired by my academy to become a coach. I rank #1 between the three Freerunning Academies in LA and SD (they share 1 ranking system)
-offered a spot on the Olympic Freerunning Committee (will hopefully be a sport in 2024 olympics)
-PIANO/VIBRAPHONE
- I play around 5 hours a week, take lessons, and have participated in the national piano guild
- I am in my school's jazz band (play piano and vibraphone in it)
-IMPROV/ACTING
-I've been participating for 5 years; I've been on the team for 3 years and am team captain
-I've also been in some commercials and short films
-STUDENT GOVERNMENT/STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT
-elected high school body president as a freshman, current senior class president
-10th/11th grade representative
- been an active member for all years of HS
-fund raise for school apparel and school goods
-NHS (member)
-KEY CLUB (member)
-COMMUNITY SERVICE
- through NHS and KC, I have done 350+ hrs of CS (includes volunteering to teach kids freerunning and active beach cleanup)
-PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB ~4hrs/wk (President)
-Hold an exhibition at the end of the school year
-ASTRONOMY CLUB (VP)
-also took college astronomy class and got an A
-WRITING
-writing a novella over summer and will be self published (I know anyone can do this)
-internship with my city's newspaper company (have published articles)
-senior yearbook editor
Essays are subjectively strong (about how I found my voice and my community through freerunning and how I was able to satiate my curiosity through it)
Letters of rec should be really, really good--like 10/10 for one and 9/10 for the other. One from 10th grade history teacher and current XC coach and one from my 11th grade environmental science teacher for whom I currently TA
Thanks in advance!!
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