ankitha
ankitha,
UC Berkeley
B.A., Sustainability Studies
creative, academic, interdisciplinary
Features Included
3
Essays
11
Schools
3
Scores
3
Advice
0
ECs
0
Sports

Background

Hometown bothell, India
GenderFemale
EthnicityAsian
Class of2021
First Gen College StudentNo

Results, Essays, and Advice

Accepted
Waitlisted or Withdrew
Denied
  • University of California - Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
  • Colgate University (Hamilton, NY)
  • Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
  • Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
  • Duke University (Durham, NC)
  • Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
  • Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
  • Rice University (Houston, TX)
  • University of California - Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
  • University of California - Davis (Davis, CA)
  • University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
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University of California - Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)

Applied for a B.A. in Sustainability Studies

Accepted and Enrolled Legacy: No

School Specific Essays

maximum of 350 words. Every person has a creative side, and it can be expressed in many ways: problem solving, original and innovative thinking, and artistically, to name a few. Describe how you express your creative side. As a first generation immigrant child, I deal with a unique predicament I have dubbed the ‘Venn diagram effect’. One circle is the world of my roots, the other is my community in the United States. I find myself pulled in two opposite directions,...
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Supplemental Essay: Other
345 Words
Prompt: The Mission Statement for Colgate University sets forth 13 Goals for a Colgate Education. One goal for Colgate students is listed as: Be engaged citizens and strive for a just society: embrace the responsibilities to local, national, and global communities; use their influence for the benefit of others. Please describe how you would embrace this goal as a Colgate student. Response: During my summer internship with the King County Wastewater Treatment Division, I worked on a farm that recycles effluent...
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Supplemental Essay: Diversity statement
358 Words
Short Answer Essay: I’m a practical person, I usually make decisions based on logic and research; deciding to take American Sign Language was an exception. Something about the language drew me in, the expressiveness, the imagery, all felt familiar to me. The first week of my 100 class was spent in total silence, immersed in the language. One sign we learned that week stuck with me, the sign for “beautiful”. That sign persisted as a wonder, an anomaly for my...
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School Specific Advice

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General Admissions Advice

Recommended summer activities during high school and college
7 Words
get internships!...
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What I’d change about my application process
22 Words
develop a "spike"--- see Prep...
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What set me apart from other applicants
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write...
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High School Performance

GPA
3.90
(no specification of weighting)
Rank
Top 10%
 
College Classes In High School
Academic Performance in High School Steady

Test Scores

Highest ACT
33
 
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ACT Prep

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