School : Brooklyn Technical HS
Major: My school has a major system and so i am currently in the Biological sciences major
Grade: 11
Ethnicity: Asian
Current average: 92 (trying to bring it up)
I have been on the honor roll for 3 years straight
SAT SCORE (1st try) 1810
breakdown: math: 620 reading: 610 writing: 580
SAT SCORE (2nd try) 1890
breakdown: math: 700 reading: 570 writing: 620
SUPER SCORE 1930 (i will take it for the 3rd and final time on Feb 20th. and aim for a 2000+)
Extra Curricular
-Model un (2 years)
-Attended all girls summer STEM program for 6-8 weeks
-National Honor society
-VP of BTHS Greenthumb
-shadowed doctor for 1.5 years
Volunteer experience:
-worked at make a wish foundation in Pakistan
-visited children at hospitals
-worked with NYC cares
-collaborated with special need children
-tutored at library
-worked at the psychiatry dep. in hospital
-worked at a nursing home
I also am currently attending Barnard’s S^3 program. Barnard Saturday Science Seminar. I had to go through an application process and then they wait listed me and then finally accepted me.
I also am in the process of trying to get a paper i wrote on Gender Inequality published. I am working with my teacher who is a Columbia graduate and used to work for the college office.
Advanced courses :
9th grade: design and drafting of productions
10th grade: Digital Electronics, AP European History
11th grade: AP bio, AP physics (these are my MAJOR’s requirements and i am currently taking these courses)
12th grade: AP Psych, Genetics, Human anatomy (will be taking these next year, because it is major’s requirements)
School List:
Barnard College (ED?)
Sarah Lawrence College
Wellesley College
Which schools do you think i may have a chance in and what can i do better my chances. Also do you think my school name will be looked into for consideration because it is a specialized hs?
I think that you’re an amazing person, but that your reading and writing scores are a little low for Barnard Wellesley, although it never hurts to try. Can you take the SAT again and try to bring them up? Maybe Sarah Lawrence, but only if you do something special with your application. SL wants people who want their unique school and unique approach. The writng is VERY importatn there, though, so on that app I’d turn in your BEST piece of written work that you did in High School as a supplement. I’d also go there and interview. Do your homework first and find out about the unique aspects of SL and then address those things passionately in your interview. You may get in. With your scores and lower writing / reading scores, and interested i women’s schools I’d look at Sweet Briar, Agnes Scott (which has cross registration at Emory), and Simmons in Boston, and the Russell Sage School. Remember: You’re at a huge high school in NYC with many Asian students. See if you can find schools that your classmates are NOT applying to. You may need to go a little further away from home. If you’re okay with going coed, I’d look at Centre college in Kentucky; Rhodes in Tennessee; Knox college in Illinois and Earlham in Indiana, Beloit in Wisconsin, Hendrix, and New College of Florida. In the Northeast, look at Union, as it’s mathy but not exclusively so. It’s a LAC and it needs women. It’s also easy commute back to NYC.
You have an excellent chance at each of the schools. To increase the likelihood of admission, visit the schools and interview. Depending upon your financial situation, considering applying early decision. Yes they will consider the profile of your high school. If you are targeting women colleges target at least one more of the seven sisters to expand the chances.
Your test scores are somewhat low for all these schools, but you have good ECs and good grades. Your chances are good to be admitted to at least one. Consider Mount Holyoke, Smith, and/or Bryn Mawr (great schools with higher admit rates then their co-ed intellectual equals), as well as some of the test-optional schools like Bates (and Mount Holyoke). If the odd block-schedule doesn’t bother you, consider Colorado College and Cornell College (in Iowa).
and yea ive thought about those schools as well and i would really like to get in to bryn mawr and i know that i can take classes at swarthmore and haverford through them (right?) and arent they test optional too??? @FireflyLights
@eh1124 another co-ed college that you might want to consider is Connecticut College. It started as a women’s school and then more recently went co-ed. IMHO, that pattern leads to women at a given school being considered for their ideas and talents before their gender. Also, Hobart and William Smith Colleges are two colleges, one male, one female, that share a campus. Effectively they act as a single co-ed school. They have a medical program that’s worth exploring at least. I don’t have current info on it. Wells, near Ithaca, recently went co-ed and you can take some classes at Cornell, which may pave a path in that direction for grad school, if this is a plan for you.