Koreanme123,
Amherst
B.A., Economics, , Sociology
I was raised by imaginary friends. I'd like to think they did a bang-up job, no?
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Lansing,MI
GenderMale
EthnicityAsian
AdmissionRegular Decision
Class of2019
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Yes
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Korean
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Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
Applied for a B.A. in Economics
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Personal Statement660 WordsOvercoming personal struggle, Story central to identity, Creative personal story, Childhood memoryI could only watch as my parents sent my friends away. I was to practice the piano, not waste my time watching the hummingbirds go by. I was supposed to be a model student, and digging mud holes was apparently unnecessary in achieving that goal. I was, unlike my friends, going to be someone happy. Except I wasn't. By keeping me captive, my parents deprived me of a typical childhood, one that could have been filled with the company and...Read more...Supplemental Essay Unique question posed by school59 WordsFor Amherst, they give you five quotes to which you are required to respond to with a personal argument. The prompt for the supplement below is as follows: “Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.” - Attributed to William Hastie, Amherst Class of 1925.Read more...Additional Essay Details252 WordsIt all started when my father announced he would go back to school. And it wasn't until he started attending that I found out that he had to commute to Los Angeles to attend, eventually moving over a hundred miles away from our home in San Diego in order to save money. That year, the rest of my family moved into low-income housing. As a freshman, I felt paralyzed, watching my family disappear before my eyes. My mother took...Read more...General Admissions Advice
Why I declined other schools55 WordsI declined more selective, presitigous schools, like UPenn Wharton, Northwestern and UC Berkeley, and chose Amherst because...Read more...Recommended summer activities during high school and college50 WordsDo what you want. No, really. Don't worry about what colleges want. I was accepted...Read more...High School Performance
Weighted GPA4.40RankTop 10%
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