横扫,不知真假

Demographics

 

Gender: Male

 

Race/Ethnicity: Korean

 

Residence: Florida

 

Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): None

 

Intended Major(s): I applied as a different major at every school, but generally a dual major (STEM + public policy or poli sci)

 

Academics

 

GPA/Rank (or percentile): 4.0, Ranked 1st

 

# of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 12 APs

 

Senior Year Course Load: Moderately rigorous (3 APs)

 

Standardized Testing

 

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

 

SAT/ACT: 1590, one sitting

 

AP/IB: All 5s on all 12 exams

 

Extracurriculars/Activities: 

 

Leadership team of a NPO, lobbied at congress for a bill, did a lot of local community service

 

Intern at another NPO, lobbied for a few statewide bills, canvassing, outreach

 

Research Intern at a national lab (cold emailed), pretty famous/reputable, CS/environment

 

Worked for a poli sci NPO, mostly volunteering

 

Lab assistant at a local university lab, environment related

 

city-wide leadership position, lots of advocacy and outreach

 

Running (ran 2 marathons)

 

8+9. School leadership positions

 

Awards/Honors: 

 

Prestigious political science program

 

Another prestigious political science award

 

STEM Olympiad (top 300)

 

6x AIME qualifier

 

Essays/LORs/Interviews: 

 

CommonApp, 10/10: everyone who read it loved it. I think it was super unique and made all the difference.

 

Essays 10/10: very cohesive profile, with clear passions and goals. also pretty unique i would say.

 

LOR 1, Humanities: 10/10, such a unique and well written LOR. i've known this teacher for all 4 years of HS and we are super close

 

LOR 2, STEM: 8/10, very average but still strong

 

Harvard Interview: 10/10, talked for 2 hours, such a nice dude

 

Princeton Interview: 3/10. didn't ask me any questions, such a short and awkward interview

 

Stanford interview 6/10, got grilled but answered everything

 

MIT: 8/10, the guy was pretty nice, very average but pleasant conversation

 

No Yale interview :(

 

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

 

Acceptances: (list here):

 

Stanford

 

Princeton (Deferred -> Accepted)

 

Harvard

 

Yale

 

Wharton

 

Brown

 

Columbia w/ Likely

 

UF

 

FSU

 

Waitlists: (list here)

 

MIT

 

Rejections: 

 

NONE!

所有跟帖: 

很牛 -HappyWed- 给 HappyWed 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 05/27/2025 postreply 22:00:36

这背景申M就很勉强,其他学校算靠谱 -阿拉拉- 给 阿拉拉 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 05/27/2025 postreply 22:13:48

为啥? MIT 只招MOP? -yddad- 给 yddad 发送悄悄话 yddad 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 05/27/2025 postreply 23:36:48

Legacy and First Gen, 的确牛 -注册用户20240725- 给 注册用户20240725 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 05/27/2025 postreply 23:13:05

None -heisse- 给 heisse 发送悄悄话 heisse 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 05/27/2025 postreply 23:39:04

哦,看错了。那就看Lobby了,其他都是non factor -注册用户20240725- 给 注册用户20240725 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 05/27/2025 postreply 23:50:58

只有10%可能是真的 这是亚男 没有任何国家级大奖 6次AIME但没有USAMO 而且这项也不一定是HYP最看重的 -挖矿- 给 挖矿 发送悄悄话 挖矿 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 05/28/2025 postreply 03:45:57

有可能是真的。搞AIME数学竞赛的孩子一般不搞politics 活动。AIME可能对走理工的亚男不算那么突出,但对参与很 -newca- 给 newca 发送悄悄话 newca 的博客首页 (148 bytes) () 05/28/2025 postreply 07:06:25

florida似乎比较容易,碰到的一个类似也是搞political science的横扫, 甚至没有aime。 -shawnma- 给 shawnma 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 05/28/2025 postreply 04:11:35

学政治还看什么aime啊lol -成功的米菲兔- 给 成功的米菲兔 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 05/28/2025 postreply 06:48:59

这个如果是真的,那就是无死角牛娃。不录他录谁 -Bailey4321- 给 Bailey4321 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 05/28/2025 postreply 10:00:42

挺真的,藤校里亚裔男孩进去的这类搞政治EC的相对比例挺高。我早说过这是个容易的边门,可惜老中坚决要走最难的路,不肯抄小路 -windyLL- 给 windyLL 发送悄悄话 (167 bytes) () 05/28/2025 postreply 10:13:03

这个也不容易。不是那块料连club领导都当不上,还领导全人类? -Bailey4321- 给 Bailey4321 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 05/28/2025 postreply 10:21:57

至少锻炼混社会跟人打交道的能力,让娃走出父母狭窄的生活圈,融入社会,一生受益。 -windyLL- 给 windyLL 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 05/28/2025 postreply 10:24:17

这个很强,横扫不奇怪 -amiyumi- 给 amiyumi 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 05/28/2025 postreply 11:16:13

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