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I've known I wanted to go to Stanford since I was 11 years old when I read a book that said something like "having a degree from Stanford University is a big deal." From then on I had an almost problematic obsession with doing well in everything so that I would be admitted.Because I knew I wanted to go there, I worked really hard in high school to stand out from my classmates. I went to a moderately wealthy high school, and competing academically and socially with people that have access to generational wealth takes strategy. I chose to take on 2-3 extracurriculars each year. Freshman year I was the president of the freshman class and captain of the freshman basketball team and played volleyball, Sophomore year I was a chair in the same student government, on varsity basketball and JV volleyball, and participated in the competitive mathematics club. Junior year I cranked up the AP courses, taking essentially everything AP, still playing on Varsity Basketball and Volleyball. Senior year I was captain of the Basketball team along with my other extracurriculars and APs. There probably were other things, as this was over a decade ago. In terms of academic performance, I was ranked #8 in my class upon graduation with above a 4.8 GPA.Even though I had a strong record, I was still nervous to apply, and so I decided to apply to the Restrictive Early Action round, which means you cannot apply early to any other school, although you are not forced to attend upon acceptance. Luckily I was accepted, and decided to not apply to any other school While I put myself in a good position to be accepted, nobody else at my school was, including those that had better academic records than me. This could be because of my application essay, in which I told the story of why I have 9 siblings in my family and how that has helped me grow as a person. I think the academic performance and the uniqueness of my story were helpful in standing out from the crowd of perfect transcripts.

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If Africa had not been colonised, I wonder where we would be today!!! Yet, given the globalised nature of the planet, I do not even see how that issue arises: today one can talk of neutral states, but in those days, a territory either colonised or was colonised on encounter. Technological advancement defines what is 'better off', i.e. where people want to go... and colonisation set us off towards that better-off. But that 'better-off' is a dynamic situation, and tenure among the 'best-off' - whatever the globally accepted measure, this is a game of musical chairs with tenure changing with changes in various situations. This dynamism also applies among the developing countries which belong to the lower echelons of the better-off ladder, aspiring to haul themselves up it. So colonialism was a necessary evil... While some of our founding fathers (sic) appreciated in the evil in - averse effects of - colonialism, they were up against those leaders who did not see that evil, and the mighty, white-washing force of neo-colonialism. Africa missed an opportunity to unite in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The colonialists and ex-colonialists divided and ruled: they convinced most individual African 'nationalists' that their best interests lay in going it alone. Contemporary pleas for African unity are mere nostalgic romanticism: corporate forces are more powerful that those of political idealism. That is the greatest adversity inherited from colonialism.

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