When my Dad introduced me to chess as a kid I was instantly hooked. I voraciously downloaded YouTube videos and chess-related apps and soon even joined the school team. But after entering freshman year of high school I began to feel self-conscious about my hobby. What if I wasn’t cool enough? What if chess made me a “nerd”? Athletics seemed to be the coin of the realm, so I trained for and played football and kept my love of...

Wrote about how I was Undecided and how I wanted to explore a large range of interests at the College

I spent a fair amount of time on my essays, but nothing crazy. Once I was comfortable with my word choice and made sure I made it personal, I left it alone.

I used a private counselor, but in...

Georgetown was the best school I...

I tried to involve myself in several extracurricular so, but could have...

I started with my "reach" schools, ones that I would really like to...

To be fair, I went to a Jesuit high school and was...

Make it personal! Talk about yourself...

DC is a beautiful city, and really it is where all the gears of...