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Ethan Park

Grade 11 · Psychology · VA

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Building

0 High 2 Medium 1 Low

GPA

3.87

SAT

1500

Target major

Psychology

Schools analyzed

Activities

Days to RD

174 days

Schools

verdict · committee confidence · drill in

Low Stanford UniversityPsychology High confidence Analysis →

Medium University of Virginia-Main CampusPsychology Medium confidence Analysis →

Medium Emory UniversityPsychology Medium confidence Analysis →

Priority actions

ROI-ranked · what moves the needle now

Secure a tangible output from the UVA research (poster presentation, student research conference, or documented analytical report you helped produce).

⭐ Wanted by 2 schools 🎯 University of Virginia-Main Campus, Emory University ⚙ Medium effort 🕒 Within the next 2–4 months before application submission

Expand your peer counseling or mental‑health training program to at least one additional high school or district program and document adoption metrics.

⭐ Wanted by 2 schools 🎯 University of Virginia-Main Campus, Emory University ⚙ Medium effort 🕒 3–6 months

Explicitly document course rigor and quantitative preparation (AP/IB/Honors classes, especially statistics, biology, psychology, or data analysis) in the application and additional information section.

⭐ Wanted by 2 schools 🎯 University of Virginia-Main Campus, Emory University ⚙ Low effort 🕒 When completing application coursework sections

Turn the UVA dataset or related research into an independent study and submit it to a youth research journal, conference, or preprint platform (with mentor guidance).

🎯 Stanford University ⚙ Medium effort 🕒 within 2–4 months if dataset access exists

Scale the peer counseling model beyond your high school—create a toolkit or platform and pilot it with multiple schools, tracking metrics like counselor training numbers and wait-time reductions.

🎯 Stanford University ⚙ High effort 🕒 3–6 months for a multi-school pilot

Solid academic readiness indicated by a 3.87 GPA and 1500 SAT.
Clear intended field (psychology), which provides a potential narrative focus if supported by evidence of curiosity or engagement.
Admissions readers indicate openness to essays or experiences that demonstrate reflection, empathy, or observation related to human behavior.
Demonstrated system-level impact: he helped run a peer counseling program that trained 30 student counselors and reportedly reduced guidance office wait times by 40%.

Academic metrics (3.87 GPA, 1500 SAT) are strong but fall within a large middle band of academically qualified applicants, so they do not provide clear distinction by themselves.
No visible evidence yet of intellectual engagement with psychology (such as research exposure, projects, or inquiry into human behavior).
Academic context is incomplete: course rigor, transcript details, and quantitative preparation (math/statistics) are not shown, making it difficult to evaluate intellectual trajectory.
Limited academic context: the file lacks a school profile or course rigor information, making it difficult to evaluate how demanding the 3.87 GPA is relative to available coursework.