pitiful-location '21–'22 app cycle Class of 2025 class year

Softs:
Teach for America- Coach youth sports

• Getting a MEd in curriculum and instruction
• Part-time jobs for nonprofits (in college and now as second job)
• Student government stuff
• Club sport + black belt in martial art
• founded a non-profit
• research
• interned at a state agency, legal non-profit, and for a union
• Random campus clubs/ volunteering
  Apps:
  Really public interest focussed - PS about founding a nonprofit that provides data science to women who are incarcerated and low income high schoolers
• Diversity statement about being bi and having an invisible disability (sent to every school, sometimes with modifications to better address the prompt)
• Wrote Why WashU; interviewed with adcom
• Did the Vandy video and interviewed with alum
• BU: applied for ASPIRE, but was rejected
• NYU: applied for scholarships
• UT Austin: did kira
• NU: opted into kira then never did it
• Columbia: tailored my PS and did fun facts
• UPenn: wrote team members essay
• Cornell: wrote a why Cornell, did Kira
• UMich: wrote the diversity prompt and the failure prompt
• Georgetown: wrote a top ten list, did a group interview
• GW: didn’t write anything extra
• Wrote Why UVA and did activities, invited to interview
• Wrote Why Berkeley
• Harvard: responded to the writing question with something about a project from an internship, invited to interview
• Yale 250 about rural internet
• Wrote USC public interest supplement
• Wrote UCLA programmatic contribution