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Demographics:
gender, F
race/ethnicity, Asian
state, WV
type of school, small public rural and
hooks, URM, low income, first gen, rural, geographic, underrepresented state AND lgbt
Intended Major(s): Biomed engineering (genetics) or biology (genetics) with a minor in international studies/foreign language
ACT/SAT/SAT II: 33 comp, 34 superscore
UW/W GPA and Rank: 3.9/5.0, 1/150
Coursework: AP/IB/Dual Enrollment classes, AP/IB scores, etc
2 APs, English lit and biology, 3s on both (not reporting) Over 30 dual enrollment classes by graduation, including college engineering, calculus, biology, genetics, international studies etc
Awards: - very selective national scholarship for international studies - regional and state awards for engineering competition - National and state champion for another STEM competition - Region and state champion for another STEM competition - Research award for STEM
Extracurriculars: Include leadership & summer activities medical and engineering spike - statewide leadership position for engineering - health/science scholar - science bowl/competition team - medical research internship, presented at conference - leader of community project and research, raised lots of money and will be presenting at conference - health and science club - engineering leadership program - international stem research with highly regarded professor
international studies ECs - leadership position in model United Nations program - speak 3 languages, language tutor, apart of language club
Essays/LORs/Other: Optionally, guess how strong these are and include any other relevant information or circumstances.
LORs - very good,
Essays - Guessing they will be very good 9/10
Schools:
Boston University
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Lafayette College
MIT
Stanford University
Tufts University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rhode Island
University of Washington St. Louis
Yale University
Please help me

Demographics:
gender, F
race/ethnicity, Asian
state, WV
type of school, small public rural and
hooks, URM, low income, first gen, rural, geographic, underrepresented state AND lgbt
Intended Major(s): Biomed engineering (genetics) or biology (genetics) with a minor in international studies/foreign language
ACT/SAT/SAT II: 33 comp, 34 superscore
UW/W GPA and Rank: 3.9/5.0, 1/150
Coursework: AP/IB/Dual Enrollment classes, AP/IB scores, etc
2 APs, English lit and biology, 3s on both (not reporting) Over 30 dual enrollment classes by graduation, including college engineering, calculus, biology, genetics, international studies etc
Awards: - very selective national scholarship for international studies - regional and state awards for engineering competition - National and state champion for another STEM competition - Region and state champion for another STEM competition - Research award for STEM
Extracurriculars: Include leadership & summer activities medical and engineering spike - statewide leadership position for engineering - health/science scholar - science bowl/competition team - medical research internship, presented at conference - leader of community project and research, raised lots of money and will be presenting at conference - health and science club - engineering leadership program - international stem research with highly regarded professor
international studies ECs - leadership position in model United Nations program - speak 3 languages, language tutor, apart of language club
Essays/LORs/Other: Optionally, guess how strong these are and include any other relevant information or circumstances.
LORs - very good,
Essays - Guessing they will be very good 9/10
Schools:
Boston University
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Lafayette College
MIT
Stanford University
Tufts University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rhode Island
University of Washington St. Louis
Yale University
Please help me

Demographics

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: White/Ashkenazi Jewish
• Residence: Upstate NY
• Income Bracket: $300k+
• Type of School: public
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): none (elaborated on legacies later)

Intended Major(s): CS, also said I was interested in Environmental Science, Applied Mathematics, and Econ on some applications with possible minor in Spanish
Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 4.0 UW, ~98/100%
• Rank (or percentile): School doesn’t rank (probably top 10-15 out of 350+ students)
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 12 AP, 5 or 6 dual enrollment, rest were honors courses
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Environmental, AP Physics 1, AP Calc BC, Spanish 5 (Dual Enrollment), AP Econ (Micro & Macro), independent study in cs (basically do my own thing and check in with my cs teacher once a week)

Standardized Testing
List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT I: 1510
• AP/IB: AP World-5, AP Lang-4, APUSH-5, AP Bio-4, AP CSA-5
• Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.):none

Extracurriculars/Activities
List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. Varsity and club tennis: singles player for my schools’s varsity team and senior year captain(did not get to list on applications) grades 10-12
2. Counselor and lifeguard at local overnight summer camp for summer of 2022
3. Class treasurer-plan events and manage class funds (grades 10-12; representative in 9th grade)
4. NHS - volunteer locally in my community (treasurer in 12th grade, member in 11th)
5. Soccer (varsity in 11th grade and JV in 9th & 10th; also played on a club team through 10th)
6. Worked at a grocery store as a cashier and bringing in carts in grades 10-12
7. Link crew/freshman connection leader grades 11-12; introduced new students to the high school and periodically checked in with them
8. Spanish club treasurer 12th grade-planned and ran meetings learning about culture in Hispanic countries (yes I know I’m treasurer of 3 clubs lol. I probably should’ve had some different leadership roles)
9. International club member 11th grade- similar to Spanish club but we covered cultures around the world

Awards/Honors
List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. NHS
2. Spanish NHS
3. AP scholar with distinction
4. Candidate for NYS seal of Biliteracy in Spanish (have been preparing for a bit but I don’t present until may)
5. Scholar athlete award

Letters of Recommendation
CS teacher: 8/10-had a great relationship and he loved me, also my soccer coach (didn’t read any of the letters so I’m just making my best guess)
APUSH teacher: 8/10-he also loved me and this year I’ve been stopping in with him a lot bc he’s lent me some of his favorite books to read.
Student council advisor: 6/10-I’m sure he wrote positive things but I’m just not as close with him as my other teachers so I don’t know how much he had to write about me.
School counselor: 5/10-same thing; I’m sure she wrote positive things about me but I barely know her
Interviews
MIT: 7/10- first interview and it seemed like my interviewer liked me, but I was a little nervous and struggled to answer some questions
Princeton: 9/10- it went really well and we had so much to talk about; went well over the time limit and he said I’d be a great fit at Princeton
Essays
Personal Statement: 6/10-wrote about the complexity of the world and the mind-boggling depth and interconnection of everything around me. The concept was really good but I don’t think the final product really conveyed my thought process. Definitely could have done better with this.
Most of my essays were similar to my personal statement where they were fine, but they didn’t stand out. However, I’d give my Princeton and Stanford essays an 8/10 on average. I thought I did really well with those.
Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)
All acceptances are for cs unless they say otherwise
Acceptances:

• (EA) RPI~40k/year merit aid
• (EA) WPI~35k/year merit aid
• (Deferred EA—>RD) Case Western Reserve University~30k/year merit aid (Current first choice for admitted universities)
• (RD) Clarkson University-I don’t rly remember but I think also around 30-40k off/year
• (RD) St Lawrence University~40k/year merit aid
• (RD) SUNY Stony Brook-2k/year merit aid
• (RD) University of Washington(Seattle)-accepted pre-science program with ~7.5k purple and gold scholarship

Waitlists:

• (RD) Middlebury College (current top choice)
• (Deferred EA—>RD) Northeastern
• (RD) Cornell (legacy relative)

Rejections:

• (RD) Amherst College
• (RD) Caltech
• (RD) Carnegie Mellon (legacy relative)
• (Deferred EA—>RD) UChicago (didn’t rly have a “dream” school but whenever someone asked my top choice I told them uchicago)
• (RD) Columbia
• (RD) Harvard
• (Deferred EA—>RD) MIT
• (RD) Princeton 😢 (really came to love Princeton)
• (RD) Rice
• (RD) Stanford
• (RD) WashU
• Stony Brook Honors
• University of Washington Honors

I definitely underestimated the competition in cs. I don’t know if any of these schools are easier to get into for other majors but I’m certainly questioning whether I should’ve applied for some other majors. Still have a few good results but it would’ve been awesome to crack a T20 acceptance. Again, not the results I was hoping for but I can’t complain overall. It could’ve gone a lot worse. I definitely recommend tuning up your essays until they’re perfect for anyone applying in the future. I think my essays were the weakest part of my application. They were fine, but there’s just so many people applying that a good essay isn’t enough.

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Below are some of the most frequently asked questions and their respective answers. This thread is to help condense these common questions into one location. A lot of newcomers to this community end up stuck in the mod queue and sometimes the threads die so the goal of this post is to stop that from happening and maybe get people a little better help getting started in the sport.
This thread is now mandatory for these types of questions so please don't get your feelings hurt if your post is locked and you are redirected here - it's only to get you better help and better organize the community!
How do I get started?
The best way is to look for a clinic in your area. Nobody is going to recommend you just throw on a helmet and climb on a bull or bronc. If you are looking for specific traineclinic recommendations in your area, feel free to ask in this thread!
I'm , is it too late to start?
No, you're not too old. The best day to start rodeoing was yesterday. The second best day is today.
Where do I buy for bull riding? Ropes?
NRS or Teskey's are both good options.
Where do I ride/rope/wrestle bulls/broncs/steers/calves in my area?
Ask below!
Can I wear a belt buckle that I didn't earn?
If you bought it or it was given to you, you earned it.
Is anyone going to judge me for dressing like a cowboy/cowgirl if I've never ridden a horse touched a cow?
Maybe. Who cares. Go ride a horse and touch a cow. We can make a cowboy/cowgirl out of you yet.
I heard they tie a rope around the bull/bronc's nuts to make him buck.
There is a flank strap loosely cinched to the animal's belly and they buck because they instinctively do it as a defense mechanism. Rodeo animals are trained from a young age to reward this bucking behavior when there is a flank strap attached and this is why they buck.
Additionally, many broncs are mares (female) and so they do not have nuts to tie a rope around.
Is rodeo cruelty?
This is a commonly asked question. Here are some of the responses that have been given before. Tl;dr this community is full of animal lovers and condemns abuse of any kind.

In the US, everyone I know who is involved in rodeo loves the animals. Sometimes the participants (human or livestock) get injured but everyone does their best to take precautions and make sure that doesn’t happen. Most mid-size rodeo events will require at least one veterinarian on site and may have designated animal welfare staff to ensure everything is being done correctly.

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I have been directly involved in Rodeo for more than a decade now. I work within multiple organizations, some of the biggest promoters in the world. My experience goes all the way down to holding chute tours to give an inside scoop at the sport, the animals, equipment, all of it.
The men and women in rodeo hold the animals in higher regard than themselves. And the ones that don’t, are found out and often find themselves without a rodeo community around them. Their animals are their everything, from their friends in a lot of cases with horses, to their livelihood with cows calves ans bulls thrown in.
Before I started in this industry I definitely took a good hard look at its morals and ethics. And regarding the animals themselves, I don’t know an industry on the planet who perform or compete with animals at this scale and popularity where animal welfare often comes before the humans involved.

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My competition horses have chiropractors, regular vet check ups, specially metered food and supplements, injections, more expensive shoes every 6 weeks than any pair of boots I have owned, and anything else they require. Maintenance and feed for my horses is my single biggest expense. More than trucks and houses.
Once they are retired, I have a bad habit of keeping them around, so they live out their life turned out, and still get vets, shoes, etc.

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The fact is horses are way too expensive to mistreat and in competition the only way to win is to have a healthy and comfortable horse that likes it's job. As far as the cattle goes the same comment applies. In general the majority of the money made from the cattle is still what they bring at a market price so if they're mistreated, sick, and injured that's money lost from the stock contractor. Also another comment is the more livestock animals are monitored the better the chance of them getting treatment from sickness or just natural injuries before conditions get worse.

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I raised rodeo bulls and roping cattle in the past we took better care of our animals than we did ourselves.

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I live out west and can tell you by personal testimony that people who own rodeo animals love them more than their own kids (depending on how useless the kid is; mileage varies).

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I’ve grown up around rodeos, and animals, and everyone I know is kind with the animals. There’s some people who do abuse them, but it’s not common at all, and most people will get involved and try to fix it fast. It’s just a few bad apples on a good tree.

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I was diagnosed with DID about a year or so ago. At the time I knew about an isolated incident of COCSA and a lot of miscellaneous things from my childhood ("the usual" sexual abuse indicators, plus related bizarre memories I had and the standard DID gaps in memory). I knew that I'd been abused in other ways like emotional/psychological abuse, covert inc*st (though I still hesitate to call it that), and emotional and physical neglect. My therapist is experienced with DID and trafficking and she ended up admitting to me that my story seemed consistent with child sex trafficking - some even possibly related to programming - and that some parts had even said things that connected with known trafficking incidents in the area I grew up
After 6+ months of coming to terms with everything, my therapist has suggested I talk to a local person who works with human trafficking stuff. She said she'd be happy to talk and I have an appointment for this Monday
I'm nervous. All I have are circumstantial evidence and some very vague memories - what the room looked like, maybe one of the people we met, some snapshot memories of the actual events/aftermath, none of which feel real (I'm aware that's also a trauma thing though). I'm not even sure it really happened. I feel... kind of dumb, talking to her as if I'm a "possible trafficking survivor," when I don't personally remember being trafficked, don't have any physical evidence for it, and don't even fully believe it even happened. It feels overdramatic and offensive. Honestly part of me is afraid I'll tell my story and she'll basically say "that's it??" I'm also worried about switching or not making sense while I'm talking to her, or getting confused, etc., but I'm trying to remind myself that if she works with trafficking she obviously is trauma-informed and will understand if I do common trauma-related things when trying to talk about it
So I guess nerves aside, anyone have recommendations for questions I should ask? She said her schedule is clear all day and that we can talk as little or as much as I want. I don't have any expectations for what she'll tell me or how she'll act. I've already told her I know she's not my therapist/case worker and that I don't expect her to tell me it does/doesn't sound like trafficking. I'm expecting to briefly go over my history and why I'm there and I'm willing to answer any questions she has for me. I'll probably also ask if she knows anything about groups that were active in my area around that time. But outside of that, I'm feeling pretty out of my depth. Anyone been through this, as a survivor or a social worketherapist/etc., and have any advice or suggestions? I just want to know some basic things that would be good to ask, but I feel like I don't even know what I'm looking for

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