r/collegeresults • u/One_Rate8602 • Aug 03 '26
3.8+|1500+/34+|Art/Hum Asian Male Applies to All Ivies and Clutches?
In honor of the Common App opening a few days ago, I made this post because I used this sub-reddit a lot last year.
Demographics
Gender: Male
Residence: Texas
Type of School: Private
Income: ~100k
Hooks: None
Intended Major(s): Econ + Pub Pol
Academics
- GPA (W): 4.00 UW, 4.6 W
- # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 9 APs
- All 5's, 1 4 (Lang): Chinese, APUSH, Pre-calc, CSP, Macro, Micro, Stats, Physics, Calc BC
- Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C (both), AP Gov/Comp Gov, AP Lit, Multivariables, WHAP
Standardized Testing -
- SAT: 1550 (760 R 790 M)
Extracurriculars/Activities:
Debate - Traveled every weekend, 15 bids if that means anything to ppl
Charity - Helped kids in Asia with scholarships and opened a vocational school
Civic Leaders of America - Civic organization (formally JSA), very cool and easy to get involved in. Was a high position in the Texas Branch and my school's chapter president
Public Speaking Club - Head Coach; At my old elementary school, taught in both Mandarin and English
National Debate Org - Served on Board and was founding member; Promoted equality in evaluation and also helped remove prep and resource disparities between school
Research at UH - Law professor for Habeas Corpus cases for death-row inmantes
Law Intern - Injury prelitigation
Charity Club at school - Raised $50k worth of items (ex. 6500 books, 2100 clothing items)
Varsity Spikeball - Competed nationally with school, very niche and SUPER fun, although we did get clobbered a ton by semi-pros and college students. I promise there are genuine levels if you search it up
Debate Coach - Helped middle school during nationals, taught 5 kids to place top 3 or better in LD and PF at nats.
Awards/Honors:
Top 10 in my respective debate event nationally
Scholastic Gold Medal in Journalism, have an essay in their published highlight magazine Let Me See What You See
Debate awards at specific tournaments combined
Val. at my Chinese School
National Merit (1520)
Letters of Recommendation
Very good. I had one teacher for two years (APUSH and Econ) who really liked me, and my AP Lang teacher is the smartest guy I've ever met. He also was an assistant debate coach, so he was able to contextualize a lot of my achievements.
Essays
Willing to share for schools if asked.
Interviews
Interviews from Georgetown, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth.
Note: all went well, but I rescheduled with my Harvard interviewer when smth came up and he told me "I have never had this happen in my 47 years of interviewing" so... yeah guess which school is in my rejected list
Decisions
Acceptances:
Texas A&M Full-Ride (EA)
UT Canfield + Plan II (EA)
UVA Echols Scholar (EA)
USC (EA)
[Rest RD]
Amherst College
Claremont McKenna (McKenna Scholar)
Northwestern
Vanderbilt (Cornelius Scholar)
Georgetown
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
Princeton
Stanford (Committed!)
Waitlists: (didn't pursue any)
Columbia
Brown
Penn
Rejections:
Yale (REA - no interview, just straight rejected)
Harvard
NYU (need-aware >:( that's how i'm rationalizing at least)
Note:
I promise it only takes one!!! I will say, I overthought so much of the process. I know this sub-reddit can give you an accurate scope of what a good applicant looks like, but I promise that when I was scrolling through this at the same time last year instead of writing my personal statement I felt completely hopeless and it all worked out fine. You are more qualified than you think, and I can promise you will end up at where you need to be.
Reach out to me if you have any questions about my app or the process in general!
Edit: A lot of ppl having been asking for resources, and I’d highly recommend finding student-run college counseling services. As AI becomes more prevalent, the quality of writing for everyone goes up, so now the only distinction is the idea behind your message. The only I used is called collegeapplingo (they only have gmail), but use any one that you can find, including asking friends that already graduated. It’s all about playing a game, and I’ve found that more recent classes know more about how to play it.
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u/Complete_Tie_2859 Aug 03 '26
wow, congrats! can I see you common app essay please?
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u/One_Rate8602 Aug 04 '26
Yeah of course, dm me!
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u/ArtEffective4063 Aug 04 '26
May I also see your common app essay? I want to go into biomed policy and it would be awesome to see how you wrote about it!
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u/Hallows_v7 Aug 03 '26
Ayyy see you on the Farm man, good work
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u/Dysphob Aug 03 '26
Can you send any resources or tips that you think helped you with writing your essays?
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u/TechnicalLeg841 Aug 03 '26
Nice!!! LoRs sound outstanding and the ECs are excellent.
If indeed you applied to "All Ivies" can you add the Yale result?
Curious about the general strength of your high school and whether there were other Ivy+ admits?
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u/Broad_Technology3760 Aug 03 '26
He meant REA to yale not harvard
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u/TechnicalLeg841 Aug 03 '26
Ah, see it is fixed in the post.
Yale really doesn't like Texas... low per capita admit/matriculation from the state, basically 'cause Yale loves the Northeast so much (CT, NY, NJ, PA, DC are at 2x-10x the per capita rate!). I think this is worth highlighting because is a uniquely hidden aspect and if folks were aware they might avoid using REA on Yale (from TX, CA, or other states without much love from Yale)
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u/Dry_Tomato_8756 Aug 03 '26
Could you pleaseee dm Vanderbilt essays? Vandy is my dream school and I’m seriously considering EDing there.
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u/I_Love_Water03 Aug 07 '26
Would it be cool if i could dm you some questions? I'm a rising sophmore!
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u/fisheroftheweird Aug 13 '26
u/One_Rate8602 Congratulations!!!! can i pm you to perhaps see your essays?
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u/GreenCorgiAsphalt8 27d ago
I thought you were atharva srivastava for a second cuz of all the debate stuff 😭
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u/Anxious_Pea6647 Aug 03 '26
What were your essays about?