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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This doesn't impress me so much, honestly. It is infinitely harder to win a major piano or violin competition or to make it to the finals for any academic olympiad team.[/quote]

Clearly the colleges were impressed though, given these were his results. Linguistics is the way to go. I've gone down the reddit rabbit hole (r/collegeresults &quot;linguistics) and its fascinating.

Acceptances:

Yale (Defer REA --&gt; Accepted!)

Princeton

Brown

Johns Hopkins (Hodson Trust Scholarship 55k/yr!!) —&gt; Committed!!

Duke

WashU (Ervin full tuition scholarship!!)

Emory (accepted to Atlanta, Woodruff full ride scholarship through Oxford campus!!)

Rice (Trustee Scholarship 20k/yr!)

Case Western Reserve University (Nord Scholar + 45.5k/yr scholarship!!)

Williams

Amherst

University of Rochester (25k/yr!)

Trinity (Global Health Gateway, research scholarship)

William&Mary (Monroe research scholar)

Duke Kunshan (in China, half tuition scholarship!)

Boston College

Fordham (full tuition Fordham University scholarship!)

Waitlists: Vanderbilt (didn't accept spot);  Northeastern (no)

Rejections: Harvard[/quote]

The list of acceptances is impressive but the ECs not that much. I am wondering if this is the full story.[/quote]

kid seems to have an interesting story. See below from that link.

Letters of Rec (if I had to guess my strongest section)

AP Spanish 10/10 - We were super close, I would talk with her a lot inside and outside of class, and on last day of class she hugged me and told me I was her favorite student she's ever had and one of the reasons she is so happy she became a teacher. She then emailed my mom like a three paragraph long note that made her start crying. If I had to guess, I'd imagine that the letter talked about my independent study in Spanish Lit, love for languages, and personal attributes.

AP English 9/10 - She loved me and I was really good at her class. I was one of two students out of 40+ she had that she gave an award to and I would often conference with her. I would imagine that she wrote about the ELL inequality research paper I conducted in her class, other minor writing assignments, and my general academic strength.

CEO of immigration center in EC#1 10/10 - I don't think additional reccs are always worth it but I think in my situation this one helped a ton. She likely spoke about me becoming the youngest ELL director the organization has seen, the work I had done with this organization, and especially about one of the ELL students I had been working with for over 4 years now and had helped through a lot of pretty major life situations. I think this gave a great deal of context about the impact of EC#1 that couldn't be conveyed with 150 characters.

Essays

I think my essays were strong but this is ultimately quite a subjective section.

CommonApp: I wrote my CommonApp about my complicated relationship with Spanish growing up and how I ultimately went from seeing language as a skill that needed to be perfected to a gateway into connection and community.

Supplements: I absolutely despised writing my PS but loved supplements. Topics included homonyms, pigeon vs. paloma, and my grandmother cooking a cat.[/quote]

Huh. Weird had 2 humanities LOR (Spanish and English).[/quote]

Maybe it was to thrown them off from the real plan (pre-med). I guess kids are now pretending to be pointy in a false direction so that they get admitted via a false, less competitive major.[/quote]

People have been doing that for more than a decade.[/quote]

I was not aware. [/quote]

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