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I applied to 15 colleges, yes, 15. This was mainly because, while I am a top student and I was certain I would be accepted into a good college, I knew that college admissions are incredibly competitive and therefore I could not bet on any specific prestigious college to accept me. My family is relatively lower-middle-class, though not poor. My retired mother, my disabled sister, and I live practically paycheck to paycheck with financial help from my grown-up siblings. Because of this, I knew that I would not have really any money to pay for college, so I only looked at colleges that met full-need, all of which are very selective.My StatsSAT: 1540/1600, 1460/1600, 1480/1600 (in that order, sadly)SAT 2: Math II (770/800), Physics (770/800)GPA: 4.405/4 Weighted, 3.96/4 unweighted (one B in freshman year English)Other GPA: 4.0/4.0 (I took a multivariable calculus class at a local community college)Extracurriculars:I have been self-teaching programming since 5th grade, publishing 8 apps and games to both Android and iOS. 3D modelling was another activity I enjoyed, and I published several models online. In school, I was also active: president of both Republican Club and CyberPatriot Club, officer for Vex Robotics Club, member of FCA. I also am a sub-mediocre pianist. I had a job as an office-assistant for my sister’s law-firm over the last two summer breaks.Essays: While, I got A’s in my AP English classes and a 5 on the AP Language and Composition Exam, my writing is choppy and unrefined. Additionally, some of my essays for specific schools were literally finished last minute. Still, some of the content was notable: me self-teaching computer programming, me restarting a dead club at my school.I applied to all my schools for Computer Science.Here are my acceptances and rejections in the order I received them along with some commentary:Stanford University - Rejected Early-Action - This was my first-choice college, as it is consistently top-ranked for computer science, my sister’s Alma Mater, and in my state (CA). I was not too surprised that I was rejected, but I was disappointed, especially since a lot of my peers were confident I would be accepted. Before my rejection to Stanford I really had not started to apply to any other schools, maybe I was subconsciously confident that I would be accepted, maybe I was just lazy. I told myself I just did not want to waste money.Northeastern University - Accepted - Northeastern accepted me in February into their Honors program. This acceptance wasn’t a surprise (had the highest acceptance rate out of all the schools I applied to), but their timing and financial aid “full need met” policy is most definitely was; my expected family contribution was $25,000, more than half what my mom made before she retired. All other colleges were at least half of that and one said my family contribution would be $0.MIT - Rejected - Starting in 5th grade I made it my goal to attend MIT, however beginning in Junior year I began having doubts. Yes, it is a top 2 computer science school, but it is also notoriously difficult and has the highest rate of suicide. Additionally, when I visited the campus I was unimpressed, and my student tour guide seemed somewhat depressed, unmotivated and told our group that at MIT they “suffer together.” Still, I was disappointed that I did not get in, especially since someone else at my school did (though I was very happy that that person did get in).Cornell University - Accepted - The day after MIT gave me my rejection, I check my phone while brushing my teeth for school, kind of sad that I will have to answer all my peer’s “did you get in” questions. In the Promotions tab of my Gmail I see an email, “A Special Invitation from Cornell University.” Inside it says, “…you will be admitted to Cornell University’s Class of 2022.” I check again to make sure this wasn’t another plea from Cornell College to get me to apply, nope, it was legit. I was so happy! I told my mother then sent a screenshot only to my best friend. By the time I got to school everyone knew and congratulated me, not bringing up MIT. (Cornell technically did not accept me until March 28th because the Ivy’s have an agreement to release decisions on the same day, but they are allowed to send emails like Cornell did)Williams College - AcceptedColby College - Waitlisted - This was somewhat surprising. I considered Colby College a (relative) safety school since my stats were well above their average. I know that they consider demonstrated interest and they do not like to admit people they believe will end up attending elsewhere, so perhaps they waitlisted me because I was too computer-science-oriented, a field in which they are not very notable.Swarthmore College - Accepted - This college conducted my first college interview, and it went pretty well, and was very interesting. I expected my interviewer to ask me questions about my classes, grades, and SATs, but the alumnus who conducted the interview did not even touch on those subjects, instead asking me about my political beliefs (in a neutral and conversational matter) and some hypothetical questions relating to computer science and artificial intelligence.Colgate University - AcceptedWashington and Lee University - AcceptedRice University - AcceptedUniversity of Southern California (USC) - Rejected - At first, I was surprised at this rejection, but I must admit that my essays for this school were rushed and subpar, and I ignored their requests for additional financial aid documents after I was accepted into Cornell.Vanderbilt University - WaitlistedPrinceton University - Rejected - This was my first choice school after Stanford rejected me. I was not surprised that I was rejected, though I did think I might have a chance since I sent my resume with my apps and because my interview went very well. My interviewer and I really connected and like the Swarthmore interview he asked me questions about artificial intelligence ranging from practical to philosophical.Dartmouth College - RejectedUniversity of Pennsylvania - Accepted - I had my best interview with the alumna from Penn. She greatly appreciated my passion for programming and my desire to learn.Overall I was accepted to 8, waitlisted at 2, and rejected from 5.Currently I am trying to decide whether I should attend Cornell or Penn.I feel very blessed to have been accepted into all these places. Looking back, I see that I probably did not need to apply to 15, but I am glad I did. I don’t think I would have applied to Cornell or Penn if I had to apply to fewer schools.Edit 4/1/2018: I have fixed some grammatical errors. My college essays were at least better written than this post—I actually proofread them. I cannot reply to comments anonymously, so I’ll write a few notes here.Rice, Williams, and Swarthmore are very good schools, but the Ivy League schools are hard to compete with.I only meant to to take the SAT twice, but I took my second SAT after summer and did not study for it—the result can be seen. After I saw my second score score, I freaked out and tried to take it again in the next two weeks, another bad idea. My score rose, but not nearly as much as I hoped. Future college applicants be warned.I was able to apply to so many schools despite the cost thanks to my adult sister, who is rather well-off. For Christmas she encouraged me to apply to many colleges and promised that she would pay for them. Also, I also was offered a few fee waivers, and Colby College simply has no application fee.My political party preference may have or may have not influenced college admissions. Most likely not. I was admitted into Swarthmore, a very progressive college, despite it. I think colleges like Stanford and MIT had other valid reasons to reject me (SAT score regression, highly competitive applicant pool), so I cannot whine.Thanks for all the support and upvotes! I did not think that my post would get this much attention.EDIT: I ended up enrolling at the University of Pennsylvania

I transferred from a CCA to UCLA with a major in Political Science. I had a 3.89 GPA. I was a member of the honor society, started the journalism club on campus trying to start a newspaper (didn't happen), tried to start the Young Republicans club and a member of the student government. I also had lettersome of recommendation from 2 teachers and the school's President. Now I don't know if you'll need the same amount, more or if less would work. I just knew I really wanted to go to UCLA so I did all I could.Remember, it's the number 1 most applied to school in the world, breaking records year after year. You have to be better than 80% of all applicants to get it. Doing all you can will only help. Let me know if you have questions and I'll do my best. I attended UCLA from 2009-2011.

Donald Trump launched himself into politics by leading the racist, lying Birther Movement: hollering and lying about President Obama’s birth certificate and other papers. Republicans were fine with it. In fact, they started taking Trump seriously in politics because of it!Trump launched his campaign for president by calling Mexicans rapists, drug runners and murderers. Republicans were fine with it. In fact, they flocked to him because of it!Trump attacked his Republican opponents with crude, schoolyard nicknames, and taunts during debates, and with lines like “look at that face.” Republicans loved it!Party leaders were troubled. But once they saw the groundswell of enthusiasm for him, they got on board. Trump said he couldn’t get a fair trial in his Trump University scam because the judge was “a Mexican.” Paul Ryan, aghast, called that a textbook example of racism. Then, Ryan got the memo. He back-pedaled. He was fine with it.During the 2016 campaign, Trump kept calling for a “Muslim Ban”— a “total ban” on Muslims entering the US! He insisted Muslims all knew who in their communities would commit acts of violence and didn’t hand them over: “I think Islam hates us.” He said we needed a “Muslim Ban” because “There’s something going on with them. We need to figure out what’s going on.” He lied about vetted Syrian refugees (we were only proposing to let in a trickle of them, mostly women and little kids, after two years of background checks) and said we knew nothing about them, and read the poem about “The Snake.” Republicans ate it up. He was their boy! They were so proud he kept his campaign promise about the Muslim Ban. They were pouty it was repeatedly declared unconstitutional (bigoted, anti-American piece of garbage that it is) and pleased when, finally, the “watered down” version was blessed by the Supreme Court.Donald Trump, several times during the 2016 election, encouraged his supporters to kill his opponent, Hillary Clinton, saying things like maybe the NRA types would “do something” about Hillary, and suggesting that her security guards should lay their guns down, and then we’ll “see what happens.” Republicans were fine with it. They thought assassination threats were great! They were good with how often Trump calls women pigs and dogs, and with him screaming hate at reporters at his rallies like “Little Katy Tur,” and with him encouraging people at his hate rallies to assault non-violent protesters as they were escorted out.Donald Trump was the favored candidate of Vladimir Putin, ex spy head of an enemy foreign power, during the campaign. Putin said as much. The Obama administration announced that the DNC emails leaked just before the Democratic Convention which sent the Bernie people howling were hacked by the Russians. Republicans were fine with it. They don’t care about our national security, or national sovereignty, or the integrity of our elections. When Trump hollered his “Russia, if you’re listening …” invitation, Republicans thought it was hilarious! They were good with having a foreign spook’s puppet in our White House.Mitch McConnell and other GOP leaders saw secret data on Russia’s meddling — and evidence of direct collusion/cooperation/conspiring between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. President Obama asked them to issue a joint statement with him, condemning the Russians for what they were doing to our election. Well, Mitch McConnell had showed how little he loved America when Obama took office, amid two bungled Republican wars of choice and a Republican Recession, and in that time of national emergency McConnell told Republican Senators that their “number one priority” was to make sure Obama did not get a second term. McConnell showed his contempt for our Constitution when Obama nominated centrist, universally admired Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court after Justice Scalia died, and McConnell refused to allow the Senate to perform its advise and consent role. McConnell the Traitor came through again during the 2016 election. He said: not only would GOP leaders not stand with the President for our electoral integrity, if Obama released the intelligence about Russia, Republicans would yell that it was false: an attempt by Obama to put his thumb on the scales of the election and help Hillary win. As usual, other GOP leaders went along with McConnell’s anti-American treachery.Trump sneered at Senator John McCain during the election for having been a captured, tortured POW in a war Trump avoided serving in with a lie about bone spurs. Trump said of our POWs: “I like the people who don’t get caught.” Republicans were fine with it.Trump sneered at a Muslim Gold Star family during the election. There are indications that data coming from Russia stopped for a few days; the Russians figured his campaign couldn’t survive something that crass. But Republicans were fine with it, and the chatter from Moscow resumed.Trump did an imitation of a disabled journalist who does not have total control of his arm movements. Republicans were fine with it. Some pretended to believe Trump wasn’t mocking the reporter — he just moves his arms a lot! Others didn’t bother pretending to believe this.The Access Hollywood tape dropped, with Trump bragging about how when he sees beautiful he just has to kiss it, and they’ll let you get away with it when you’re a celebrity, you can walk up to them, grab them by the pussy, anything! Republicans held their breath to see if this would be a problem for them; did they still have any conscience or decency? They didn’t! Mike Pence pressured Trump to issue a sincere apology. When Trump wouldn’t, Pence lied and pretended Trump had, and Pence said he was so moved by it.The tape fit the narrative of who Trump has always been: statements he made on the Howard Stern Show about how, when he owns a beauty pageant, he walks into the area where contestants are changing, naked and semi-naked, to “inspect” them. During the campaign, there were nineteen women who confirmed Trump had done things he brags about, to them: kissed them on the lips upon meeting them, groped them, pushed them up against the wall and assaulted them, grabbed them by the pussy in a club, etc. Six women said he’d come into the changing area when they were in beauty pageants. Five were teen contestants — the youngest was 15. The tape also correlated with Ivana Trump’s 1990s claim during her divorce from Trump that he violently raped her. (In 2015, Michael Cohen yelled about it at a reporter that “you can’t rape your spouse!”) A number of the women had reported/filed charges about sexual assault years before Trump entered politics. Republicans were fine with all of it.Credible news reports during the campaign, mostly in newspapers, not on TV, talked about the Trump Model Management scam, where teen models from around the world were coached to lie to Immigration and say they were coming to the US for contacts and interviews, not to work, and then they were warehoused in one apartment by Trump and gouged for rent; Trump pocketed their illegal earnings as models. Details came out about the Trump University scam; the man who ran it for Trump said it was set up to prey upon the elderly and uneducated and steal their life savings. It wasn’t a university. Trump said he hand-picked the staff, but he never met them or hired them; they were hired off of Craigslist, and many had never sold real estate. The scam took $20,000 or $30,000 from some people. Republicans were fine with it.Republicans were fine with Trump bribing the Attorney General of Florida, Pam Bondi, with money from his slush fund/personal charity not to investigate his Trump University scam. They were fine with Trump using money from his fake charity to buy jumbo portraits of himself. They continued to holler about the Clinton Foundation — a real charity which releases its tax returns and has helped millions of people around the world.Republicans knew during the 2016 campaign that Trump has reneged on hundreds of contracts; he hires someone to build him a building, or lay down flooring, or put in mirrors — and then, after the small business works months or years, he doesn’t pay them. Or, he pays them thirty cents on the dollar, and sneers: sue me! There were many articles about how Donald’s bigoted father Fred C. Trump and Donald Trump had a racist housing policy during the 1970s, lying to black applicants and saying there were no apartments to show and marking their applications with a “C” for colored. The Federal government took the Trumps to courts for this bigotry, repeatedly. In the face of a torrent of fact-checked, carefully sourced, credible stories about all of Trump’s crimes, Republicans learned to shout: “Fake News!” They pretend, like Trump, not to know the difference between real journalism — and click-bait sites, and FOX, and the Enquirer, and stuff in their social media feed that Russian cyber-trolls and bots put there. They have left the fact-based universe far behind.Republicans were fine with Trump bellowing that if he didn’t win, that meant the election was rigged. They were fine with the chants of “Lock her up!” and Trump telling Hillary during a debate that if he won, “You’d be in jail.” They were good with the US being reduced to a banana republic where the winner in an election threatens and then jails the loser as a matter of course, no evidence needed.Trump came into office and almost immediately fired the head of the FBI, James Comey because of “the Russia thing,” as Trump said publicly. He said it on the news, and in a private meeting with Russians in the Oval Office. Republicans were fine with it.Trump received multiple warnings that his National Security Adviser Mike Flynn was compromised — he had lied and Russians and others could blackmail him because they could expose his lies, so he should not be allowed to see sensitive data. Trump kept Flynn on for two weeks after Sally Yates told him this. He fired Sally Yates. Republicans were fine with it.From early on in Trump’s presidency, there were reports that Jared Kushner lied repeatedly — hundreds of times — on his security clearance forms. He did not disclose many, many meetings with foreign nationals that might pose security concerns. He kept re-filing his forms. Republicans were fine with Kushner continuing to see sensitive intelligence he could then blab or sell to enemy states.Republicans in Congress gave up their Constitutional oversight role; they would not properly investigate what Russia did to the 2016 elections. They would not investigate Trump’s obstruction of the FBI investigation. They would not investigate how he was violating the emoluments clause with his hotel in Washington that foreign diplomats stay at to curry favor with the administration, and other “perks” and bribes Trump gets. They would not investigate his multiple lies about President Obama, Hillary Clinton and others. They would not investigate the way American Navy SEALS were killed in Yemen, and how that raid and news of it were handled. They would not investigate how/why Trump handed top-level intelligence from Israel to the Russians in the Oval Office — so that the Israelis and others will think twice in the future about giving us tips that could help keep Americans alive. They would not investigate the security clearance of Kushner and others. They would not demand that Trump release his taxes. They would not work with Democratic colleagues to look at ties between Trump and Russia; Devin Nunes performed his contemptible theatrical pranks, and lied and said he’d recused himself or “stepped back” when he hadn’t — and the Republican base was fine with all of the GOP clowning and posturing and dodging of their oversight role.Trump said there were “good people on both sides” in Charlottesville, and Republicans were fine with it. He attacked the media and individual reporters — his buddy David Pecker at the National Enquirer had goons harass the teen daughters of reporter Mika Brzezinski over the phone, while Trump was tweeting nasty things about their mom (another of his weird woman-with-a-bleeding-face rants) — and Republicans were fine with it. Trump re-tweeted an image of a train plowing CNN, right after the terrorist in Charlottesville killed Heather Heyer with a car and wounded seventeen. Trump re-tweeted himself body-slamming CNN. When the loony in the Trump-mobile in Florida was sending pipe bombs to Democratic leaders and media — Trump kept demonizing those same people and media. Trump praised the unstable thug Congressman from Montana who body-slammed a low-key, polite reporter and lied about it. Trump re-enacted the body-slam at one of his hate fests, around the time of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre. Republicans are fine with it.Republicans continue to bleat “no collusion” and to call Mueller’s investigation a “witch hunt” after substantial evidence was gathered that has led to so many indictments and guilty pleas and several convictions — after Manafort and Gates and Papadopoulos and Stone and Pinedo, and after all those Russian nationals and entities got served. Republicans know Don Jr got an email inviting him to collude, and he wrote back “I love it!” and took the meeting in Trump Tower with Jared and Manafort. They know that Don Jr lied about it several times and his father helped him concoct a lying letter, and they both lied about doing that … Republicans don’t mind at all. Fake News! Witch Hunt! No Collusion! Sad!Republicans saw how Trump behaved toward Putin in Helsinki. They saw him do that belly crawl. They saw him believe a dictator/spy chief of an enemy foreign power over our own intelligence — people who risk their lives every day gathering data — and his own, hand-picked Director of National Intelligence and heads of the FBI and CIA and foreign policy advisers. Republicans pretend that all those people must be part of the “Deep State.” They don’t mind it when Trump talks to Putin for hours at a time and only the Russians know what gets said. They know that Putin, in addition to surveilling our voter rolls, also surveils our power grid and economic system and nuclear power plants … and they just don’t care. Putin helps Republicans win, and that’s what matters to them.Republicans are fine with the news that Trump violated campaign finance laws to have Michael Cohen pay off porn star Stormy Daniels and centerfold Karen McDougal during 2016, and then Trump reimbursed Cohen, and lied about it all again and again … They were just furious at Cohen when he stopped lying for Trump and talked about deals they’d done which Cohen could provide proof of. They are fine with Trump being “Individual One”: an un-indicted co-conspirator in Cohen’s crimes.Republicans were fine with Trump nominating Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court because Kavanaugh was likely to give Trump a pass on crimes while in office. When Dr. Blasey Ford and others stepped forward, Republican leaders made a great show of respect toward her, and hid behind a woman questioning her. Republicans clutched at their pearls and murmured about a presumption of innocence (in a job interview?) and due process and traumatizing a person and that person’s family. But Republicans were fine with Trump coaching Kavanaugh at the White House to throw a tantrum at Senate Democrats, and with Trump lying when he said there would be an unlimited one-week FBI investigation, and they were fine with Trump publicly lying about Dr. Blasey Ford (who may well be a survivor of sexual assault, like so many women and girls who say they were attacked by Donald Trump), and mocking her testimony. Republicans were also fine with Trump and their party leadership backing Roy Moore: a man with many accusers, banned from a mall because of the way he hit on teenagers. Republicans these days are fine with sexual predators in general.Republicans are fine with how Trump mocked and ultimately fired his Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself after he was caught lying to the Senate about his contacts with the Russians during the 2016 campaign. They are fine with Trump destroying every fire wall in government, such as the one between the DOJ and the White House, and with Trump choosing an acting Attorney General and then a new Attorney General because they auditioned for him, in effect, saying publicly he could never be held accountable for his crimes. They are fine with Trump breaking laws left and right, lying and undermining our Constitution with impunity.And so, in the unlikely event that Trump is, in the end, somehow held accountable for his crimes, and if he is indicted before 2020 — of course they won’t mind. The Republican base will yell “Fake News!” They’ll say the courts are fixed against Trump, and the Deep State is out to get him. The party leaders will say the same. You can turn off your conscience, again and again — and eventually, it will switch off permanently.The Republican Party has at times been honorable, even heroic. There have been times when they were the major US party that opposed slavery, and racism, and Jim Crow. There have been times when Republican leaders like Teddy Roosevelt stood up against corruption and graft in government — on the state and national level. There have been times when Republican leaders did things like build our national highway system (Eisenhower) and found the Environmental Protection Agency (Nixon) and go after bigots in housing like Donald Trump and his father (Nixon again) and champion democracy, at least in name (Ronald Reagan). But Republicans have left the fact-based universe far behind. They no longer believe in science, or in data collected by all our intelligence services and NASA and our armed forces. They no longer believe in the Constitution, or in honor, or in integrity, or in treating all human beings with basic decency, or in the First Amendment, or in the principle that no one, including the president, is above the law, or in free and fair elections, or in democracy even as an ideal, or in patriotism toward America and the importance of our sovereignty and security. They are happy for us to become a puppet state. They are happy for us to be a gangster state. They are happy for us to be a thug state, with our leader advocating for bigotry, chaos and violence. They are happy to have us devolve into the brutality of the schoolboys in William Golding’s novel The Lord of the Flies.Here’s my song, from right after the 2016 elections, about what appeals to the Republican base:And here’s my song about the Republican Party leaders:This is who they have revealed themselves to be thus far. I don’t expect them to change.