Why it worked
The creator shared a comprehensive and impressive list of their academic achievements, college acceptances, and extracurricular activities. This detailed showcase of success likely resonated with viewers who are also navigating the college application process, providing inspiration and a benchmark for their own efforts.
Summary
The creator shares their academic achievements, including college acceptances, scholarship amounts, GPA, test scores, weighted classes, and goal fields. They also detail their extracurricular activities, such as founding an OCD awareness movement, co-founding a first-aid workshop series, conducting research, interning at Stanford Medicine, and holding leadership positions in HOSA and a language hub.
Structure
- 1Sharing college acceptances and scholarship stats
- 2Detailing academic stats and weighted classes
- 3Listing goal fields of study
- 4Showcasing awards and extracurriculars
- 5Highlighting leadership roles and initiatives
- 6Mentioning research and internships
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sharing *some* of my stats/ecs/awards- accepted into 25~ colleges out of 34
(NYU, Boston Uni, USC, Purdue, Case Western premed, northeastern, UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz regents scholarships + every CSU)
150k+ in all college scholarships
*class of 2028!*
stats:
bay area
asian
high income
weighted a-g 10-12 gpa: 4.33
top 10% of class in 884 students
biomedical academy all 4 years
34/35 ACT perfect score
1490 SAT
weighted classes:
10 AP's
3 Honors
goal fields:
public health
neurobio
premed/pre-pa
awards:
HOSA first place INTERNATIONALLY after winning first in regionals and california state
continued awards:
2 national awards -> volunteer +
collegeboard
1 state award hosa 4th
1 school award in biomedical academy
main EC's:
founder of social movement and initiative on OCD awareness since freshman year-> i personally had OCD, tied my personal statement to this
led 300+ students in graphic design, research, and social media marketing
incorporated our own OCD researched curriculum in 9 different school districts. presented to ~30 middle schools
THE OCD TRUTH
Here's what we accomplished so far...
co-founded workshop series on teaching students first-aid knowledge in case of emergency like school sh00tings, taught bleed control and got on local news. hands on practice with our kits.
then by myself:
reached out to school admins and national/state congressmen on supporting bills related to preventing school sh00tings so prevelant in california, USA in general
alzheimer's and parkinson's druug development wet lab research presented at expo in front of college professors and industry professionals
intern at stanford medicine asian liver center:
presented to AAPI communities on importance of catching hepatitis b and liver cancer fast, vaccination and screening addressed social stereotypes on hepatitis b
over summer:
was a team leader at the stanford asian liver center youth conference. (did team leader again summer after grad)
led 10 students to develop project on public education about hepatitis b, proposed a clothing line and screening site locator website
medical assistant extern at a stanford hospital gastroenterology office for a school year
in HOSA officer board for 3-4 years
language hub: connected student tutors with students for learning new languages
secretary -> vice prez -> prez
helped raise money during annual school culture day by selling food -> money went to curriculum dev
stanford medical school
cardiothoracic surgical
internship:
-proposed immunosuppressant
development for cardiac cancer
transplant surgeries
korea daily/new york times
internship:
-wrote/published articles on
varying cognitive disorders
mainly OCD and
ADHD
- developed magazine with team
NHS Scholarship decision
after submitting college apps i continued working and updated colleges... esp ones i was waitlisted at
won a bunch of prestigious national honors society scholarships!
continued building my organizations