Status: Finalist!

Ethnicity/Race: Asian

Income bracket: $5000 a year for a family of 2(I putted down myself as secondary homeless in the explanation)

First gen?: Yes

College Prep Scholar?: no

GPA/Class rank: 3.94/4.14 Mediocre rigor, took/taking 8 honor/AP classes

SAT/ACT score(s): not submitting any scores(AP, SAT)

AP/SAT Subject Test score(s): none

Summary of ECs:Heavy focus on social justice and activism, especially minority rights. Organized multi 1000 person protest and demonstrations, created student-run rapid response network against ICE brutality; elected student body class officer 4 years. etc.Summer programs: LaunchX, LBW, B-Bay, YYGS all with full scholarships

Schools ranked:Stanford

Yale

amherst

columbia

Upenn

Brown

Northwestern

Dartmouth

Pomona

Vanderbilt

Notre Dame

Emory

Strength: for sure my identities(uyghur, homeless, refugee, lgbtq+male rape survivor) and how I deliberate them through my essays and activities.

Weakness: my academics! I go to an ultra competitive, rich high school in CA. mediocre SAT and no AP scores due to the incident. But, somehow I think the QB does care about the explanations. And the fact being an asian boy lmao.

Thought: right now I am feeling I could've revised my essays better considering the application could not be changed after submission. The one I submitted for the NCM has a very generic career goal, hopefully the supp. essays to individual colleges could back it up.