Barnard is my top school, but I am afraid I am not doing enough.
Objective:
SAT: not taken yet (PSAT 1180)
ACT: not taken yet (multiple practice tests- 28-31)
Unweighted GPA: 3.95
Weighted GPA: 4.2037
Class rank: 20/313
Intended major: political science
Relevant Classwork: Mainly honors (except Criminal Justice, Theatre, and Digital Arts), 5 AP classes by end of senior year (Psychology, US History, Macroeconomics, Literature, Statistics, and maybe Spanish)
Senior Year classes: AP Macroeconomics, Literature, Statistics, and maybe Spanish, Sociology, Telecommunications (Criminal Justice 4), PAC Leader (kinda like you are a school administrator)
Extracurriculars:
- Criminal Justice Competition Team- scored top 5 in regionals for extemporaneous speaking (5th place), evidence packaging (5th place) group investigation (4th place), criminal law test (3rd place),
- Mock Trial/Criminal Justice Club member
- Interact Club member (Volunteer service- around 30 hours with them)
- Morning help with Criminal Justice teacher (volunteer, as well)
- Over 100 community service hours by senior year
- Online clothing resale company (my mom and I buy clothes and resell them)
- Drama Club since sixth grade
Awards/Summer Programs:
- Telecommunications Certificate (9-11 dispatch in the state of Florida) by end of senior year
- Honor Roll all four years (never got below a B-)
- FBI’s Future Agents in Training for 3 days (slightly competitive summer program- 35% acceptance rate- that discussed different fields in the FBI)
-hope to study abroad this summer in Peru to increase my Spanish skills (I am Hispanic)
Background:
- Ethnicity: Black, Puerto Rican
- From Connecticut, currently live in Florida
- Lower Middle Class
- School: Public
- Will need financial aid
- First-gen to get a bachelors