Hey. I would appreciate it if you could roughly chance me for some schools, and let me know what I need to work on for me to do decently during college time later this year.
I’m a junior at a large public school that has a lot of trouble, so my rank should be alright…at LEAST top 10% if not better. My cumulative GPA is approx 3.5, and my junior year GPA is a bit higher with a 3.6-ish and I really should be able to get to a 3.7 at least before the end of the year. I didn’t get my SAT scores back yet, and I think I did significantly better on the SAT than PSAT, but I got a 1280 on the PSAT w a 700 in reading and a 580 in math. I think math score did rise, I was 99th percentile for reading which was cool. Math is my weakest spot, I’ve gotten Cs ans Ds in math a couple times in the past two years in math and a f one marking period last year. Bad, I know!! I’m trying really hard to make that better, and I’ve gotten Cs in pre calc both semesters but I’m really working for a B this marking period. I have 2 APs w A averages in both, and I had an A+ in AP world last year, but only got a 3 on the test.
My ECs are pretty good but there’s not too many of them. I’m on my school’s mock trial team as a star witness both years, I score 9s and 10s exclusively and I will probably touch on that a lot in my essays. We made it to 8 in the state- there’s like 72 teams so that’s not too bad.
Then I participate in LifeSmarts, a business/environment/tech quizbowl sort of thing. Last year I was a team member, we made it to nationals in Seattle. This year I’m captain and we are going to nationals in denver. This will be by far what I talk about the most if given the opportunity. Its afforded me a lot of great opportunities
Stock market game, writer for school newspaper. Summer after fresman year did a free academy with the editor of a large paper in my state and ended up getting my full story published in it, which was great.
I should have a little under 100 hrs of community service at nusing homes and community events by the time I apply.
Im a biracial (white+black) female student, first generation college student. Idk what my income bracket will be, my dad makes maybe <$45k, but he’s getting married later this year most likely and my soon to be stepmother probably makes <$25k? I’m not sure how the taxes will work out, they won’t be married before August…but whatever
Schools I’m looking at: I’m from CT so new England and general East coast is ideal, pls rec schools if you can tho!!
UHart
UNew Haven
UMass
Ithaca (my cousin went here and loved it)
Temple
Howard
The New School (bad financial aid here but I visited and loved it)
Pace
Uni of Maryland
Brooklyn College
Pratt Institute
Idk what else, if there’s any suggestions I’d appreciate it so much! There’s so many schools out there its overwhelming. I just want as much aid as possible in a town or city that ISNT completely dead. Thank you so much for reading this, sorry it’s so long!!
