🎓 REAL ADMISSIONS STORY #6

🌍 International Student — 2026

Who: male
Country:
High School / Grade: private school in a European country
Intended Major: politics/economics

📊 Academic Profile

🌱GPA: 6.50/7.00
🌱SAT: 1570
🌱IB: 44/45

🏆 Awards & Achievements

🌱UVM Citizen Scholar Award
🌱4x National champion in history olympiad competition, 3x runner-up in European Championships of said history olympiad
🌱Honor roll at my school throughout high school
🌱School award for best history student in junior year
🌱School award for best programming student in sophomore year

💼 Extracurricular Activities

1. President of the club for aforementioned history olympiad
2. ⁠Debate coach for middle school students
3. ⁠Counselor at a summer camp
4. ⁠Co-founder of an initiative to raise money for famine relief and support the UNWFP in a country
5. ⁠Member of MUN club
6. ⁠Member of debate club
7. ⁠Woodworking and carpentry instructor (paid job)
8. ⁠Worked out at the gym
9. ⁠Was paid to tutor students for the SAT
10. ⁠Studied my mother language at a secondary school curriculum level in my own time

📋 Essays/LORs/Other: 
“I would consider myself a strong writer, so I think my essays were generally quite strong - perhaps an 8-9/10 level for most of them. My LoRs were quite good; in particular, I had one from a teacher who has taught me for 5 years in one of my strongest and favorite subjects and worked with me on multiple projects.”

Interviews: “Georgetown and Princeton interviews were fine - nothing special. I thought I had established some rapport with the interviewers but I can't imagine our conversations stood out. Georgetown was probably better than Princeton because I was able to do it in person. My Stanford interview, however, went extremely level and I honestly feel I had an amazing conversation with my interviewer. We definitely got along extremely well, and he said he would try and "fight for me"; I recently learned he wrote that I was the strongest Stanford applicant he had ever interviewed.”

🏫 University Results — 2026

Accepted:

UVA EA - accepted
American EA - accepted, 35k/year merit aid
Stanford RD - accepted

Rejected:

UCB RD - rejected
JHU RD - rejected
UPenn RD - rejected
Yale RD - rejected
Princeton RD - rejected

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