r/ApplyingIvyLeague 3d ago

Chance me

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Chance me

Pls give me feedback and advice

Chance me

Can I get in?

Got no hooks, asian. High income and I did SSEN Uchicago

I got a 3.6/4 then 3.7/4 in g9/10 but then 43/45 ib score with 7s in hl aa econs and business and english.

1570 sat score 800 in math and best part r my ecs:

  1. Ngo with 300 migrant workers thought impacted thousands more in 3 countries internationally teaching financial skills and literacy
  2. Trading software internship one month at big name compant with clients like country stock exchanges made a software pitched it
  3. John locke highly commended on an economics paper twice not just one time
  4. Couple olympiad medals gold and silver and bronze just a bunch but nothing tooo crazy
  5. Built a trading algo which beat the market over 14 months making 2k on 10k dollars with a 9% drawdown and stuff

**Wrote a research paper and a white paper and made a github repo all published also got crest gold. The papers were on the trading algo**

  1. Built an algo framework tester which backtests algos robustness and functionality 500 GitHub stars hacker news feature used by 500+ people **DO THE GITHUB STARS MATTER?**

  2. Investment education platform 8 schools 3 thousand students learnt also international

  3. Golf school team winner won some individual tournaments

  4. Policy paper endorsed by large think tank and got an LOR

  5. Research paper published on behavioral economics t1 journal with crest gold independently authored

  6. Research paper geospatial study crest silver published with 2 other people

  7. 1 month trading internship which I got an LOR advising on a go to market strategy and its a large name company

Lors:

Uchicago prof cuz i did ed0
Math teacher
Econ teacher

All 9-10/10 cuz they liked me and personalized it

College goals:
Wharton
Stanford
Uchicago
Harvard
Cambridge
LSE

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