Chance a creative writer?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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SAT 1580
SAT II: Math 2 800, Literature 760
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): I calculated this to be like 3.7
Weighted GPA: 3.92
Rank: None
AP: World history (4), Psychology (5), Lang (5), APUSH (5)
Senior Year Course Load: AP euro/lit/enviro/gov, honors calc, honors french

Awards

  • regional Scholastic awards (5 gold keys, 1 silver, 3 honorable mentions)
  • honorable mention in the Princeton poetry contest
  • student of the month for english at school? lol
  • national winner in Just Poetry quarterly

Extracurriculars:

  1. My main thing is creative writing. I’ve been published in online and paper literary publications. I am an editor for an online publication, and prose editor of my school’s lit mag. And I am self-publishing novels on Amazon, that kind of thing.
  1. Politics stuff: Political internship with a local campaign for Congress. I have also received a varsity letter for Model United Nations at school (I've attended 4 conferences hosted by schools like GWU, Harvard, etc), and am treasurer of the club.
  2. founder of the movie club at school. I also organized a trip for my class to see an educational movie at the theater. The club and trip both revolved around cultural and historical diversity/education (my school is not very diverse). Also a co-founder of the black student union at school.
  3. french club vice pres. We just get together and eat fondue.
  4. girl's tennis
  5. basic stuff like student council, NHS, etc

Job/Work Experience:

  1. worked at a kitchen/bakery dishwashing, cleaning floors, serving customers, etc
  1. tutored kids in english one summer (6 different kids, all in elementary school)

Volunteer/Community service:
Most of my volunteer work is with Relay for Life (organization under the American Cancer Society). All kinds of fundraisers and things like that, we raise a lot of money each year.

Also spent last summer as a counselor at a camp for kids/adults with disabilities

Summer Activities:

  1. Kenyon young writers review
  1. this summer, I was hoping to intern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, join the Adroit mentorship program, or attend the Iowa young writers workshop. Due to Corona these may all be canceled so we will see.

Intended Major: English, I want to minor in international affairs
School Type: Public, small
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: F
No hooks

This is my college list. I’m a junior. Please let me know if this list is too reach-heavy. I don’t know much about these schools but just wanted to brainstorm:

Emerson college
Fordham
NYU
Boston college
Northeastern
Tufts
Villanova
Carnegie mellon
Upenn (trying to get in through their creative writing recruitment program)
Columbia (Lol this one’s not too serious).

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As a senior who has been accepted to a couple of these schools, I definitely think you have a chance. These schools are difficult for everyone, though. You have to keep that in mind going into senior year. I would use your time, now, to work on more literary stuff and get it published at higher levels.

Some of the schools do not really make sense either… CMU and Northeastern for creative writing? I would recommend looking at some liberal arts colleges, as well. They will surprise you, trust me. I did not think I would ever attend a liberal arts college when I was a junior.

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@honestlyidek Thank you for commenting!!
My guidance counselor told me Carnegie mellon was “strong across the board” so I thought I could pursue writing there, clearly I am lacking knowledge about it.
Northeastern I toured recently and the guide kept talking about their travel opportunities, and then I found out they had no writing supplements, so I put it on my list.
I toured some liberal arts schools like Amherst College, but I didn’t really like the size of them at all. But I think I’ll still consider applying to some LACs as you say

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@galactoc Of course! CMU is a good school across the board, but I do not think an employer would be like “Wow, she went to CMU for creative writing!” Plus, if you are going to spend that much money on a school, you might as well get the name on your side. I would recommend looking at the Claremont consortium! They have five undergraduate liberal arts colleges that work together, and their campuses literally are right by each other. You can take classes across the colleges, and their student population is 10k+ together.

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@honestlyidek I looked it up and they seem like great institutions, but unfortunately I want to stay closer to home on the East Coast. But still thank you for the advice and I will definitely look into some liberal arts schools now

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