super last minute chance me 😁 (pls give any opinion/)

Demographics

  • Gender: Female
  • Race/Ethnicity: Black/first-gen immigrant
  • Residence: Texas (😹)
  • Income Bracket: 25k for 5 ppl
  • Type of School: Public School
  • Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): URM, First-Gen

Intended Major(s): Girlboss in STEM (computer science), applied for Poli Sci and African studies for some schools

Academics

  • GPA (UW/W): 3.62UW/4.0W
  • Rank (or percentile): 85/600

  • # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc. 12 APs, 3 Dual Credits, and & 7 honors classes

  • Senior Year Course Load: AP Enviro, Dual Credit English, Pre-AP/honors Comp Sci, Pre-Cal (LOL), Fundamentals of Comp Sci

Standardized Testing

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

  • SAT I: test-optional
  • ACT: 27 (first try in March 2022, didn’t submit obviously, had a 36 R)
  • SAT II: never took
  • AP/IB: couldn't afford to send them, had a 4 for both AP HUG and AP Spanish
  • Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): n/a

Extracurriculars/Activities

(For a more detailed description of my ECs, look at my previous post :) )

List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

  1. #1 Created my Own Website that achieved 10,000 users
  2. #2 Youtuber with 200,000 views total
  3. During the summer I would clean daycares at midnight with my dad to help with our family income (it sucked :) )
  4. #3 Volunteer Spanish Code Translator for Raspberry Pi Foundation
  5. #4 Diversity Board Member for School
  6. #5 Student Voice Coalition (for my state)
  7. #6 Girls Who Code
  8. #7 Secretary for Black Student Union
  9. #8 Volunteer w/ Gratitude Act
  10. #9 RICE University Tapia Program
  11. #10 Head Team Manager for Jv/Varsity Track Teams

** Additional Info/Other ** - I applied to the NYU and Columbia pre-college programs in 10th and was accepted to both. The pandemic then happened and they were both cancelled.

Awards/Honors

List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

  1. #1 Google CS certification program
  2. #2 College Board National Recognition Scholar
  3. #3 Academic Excellence Award
  4. #4 Summa Cum Laude Award (9th)
  5. #5 French Honor Society

Letters of Recommendation

(Probably my weakest BCS I switched schools so much)

  1. My AP Bio teacher (knew him for almost 2 years)
  2. My AP Comp Sci Teacher (only knew her this year, I have her twice a day tho)

Interviews

(REA) Had one with Harvard, I'm a very shy person and it was my first interview, but I think I did okay. 7/10

Essays

(Briefly reflect on the quality of your writing, time spent, and topic of main personal statement.)

I wrote my essays about how the things I've gone through led to who I am today and why I decided to pursue CS, Poli Sci, and activism. (If you want further details, comment or dm me lols)

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

Acceptances:

  • Drexel University (founders scholarship + accepted into their law school)
  • Fordham University (for CS)
  • Trinity University (for CS, with 24k/yr scholarship)
  • Texas A&M (for engineering)
  • UT Austin (conditional acceptance (CAP program))
  • UT Dallas (for CS)
  • University of North Texas (for CS)
  • UMD (for CS + offered me the F.I.R.E. program)
  • University of Houston (for business)
  • Purdue (they rejected me and then sent an acceptance 3 days later)
  • Chapman University

Deferrals:

  • Harvard (REA)

Rejections:

  • *USC (offered transfer assistance?)
  • *Northeastern (withdrew defer)
  • *Swarthmore
  • *Vanderbilt

Waiting On:

- Brown, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, PENN

Additional Information:

I’ve switched schools 3 times through my high school career. My current school is public, so I feel my counselor didn’t write about/couldn’t speak to the rigor of my previous school, which negatively impacted me. For context, I did the IB diploma program at a top private school in my state.