Hi! I’m a rising senior at an “elite” small private school in New England. I spent my junior year in Italy studying Classics through a study abroad program. I’m a white male. No FA needed.
Intended major: Classics, maybe double major or minor in Linguistics
Academics: SAT: 800 CR, 740 M, 790 W 2330 total
SAT II: 740 World History, 800 Latin, 760 Italian, 780 Lit
Class rank: My school doesn’t rank
GPA: School doesn’t weight but my home school GPA is 3.85 (very high for my highschool, abroad GPA is 3.95)
Coursework: School doesn’t offer many APs but have taken AP Latin, honors math and science (honors english and history not available), took 6 Classics-related courses while abroad including 3 languages (Latin, ancient Greek, and Italian), taking AP Calc AB senior year
AP Scores: 5’s on US Gov, Comp Gov, Human Geography, Lit, Lang, Latin, Italian (all except Latin self-study)
Awards: Gold medals on numerous Classics essay contests/tests
Extracurriculars:
-Docent at local art museum. I want to work at a museum when I’m older, so this takes up a lot of my time. 300 total hours, 9-12
-President of Classics club. Member 9, president 10 and 12
-Took intensive ancient Greek summer after freshman year at a very well-respected university. In class with mostly grad students.
-President of Debate Club. Member 9, 10, president 12
-Blog about punk rock music with over 20,000 posts and 5,000 followers. (I’m writing another one of essays about this).
-Make playlists online for a website, get paid per play, over 10,000 plays altogether
-Collect rare vinyl records. I have about 100.
-Fluent in Italian
-Took classes in linguistics and Italians after sophomore year
-Curatorial internship in Classics archeological collection at a very prestigious museum
(I’ve also worked in smaller roles at 2 other museums, so not sure how I’m going to incorporate them.)
Schools:
Yale (SCEA?)
Brown (ED?)
Cornell (ED?)
Harvard (SCEA?)
UChicago (EA)
Johns Hopkins
UPenn
Georgetown
UNC (EA)
UCB
UMichigan (EA)
UWashington
Notre Dame
I’m looking for mid-sized universities with great humanities. I haven’t liked any of the liberal arts schools I’ve visited, so please don’t suggest any. It’s important to me to find a place that’s open to feminism, LGBTQ, etc.
My options are:
SCEA at Harvard or Yale with EA at UNC, UMichigan, maybe UVA
ED at Brown or Cornell with EA at UNC, UMichigan, UChicago, Notre Dame
I’m generally conflicted because my school has a great record with Harvard (roughly 10-15 percent of graduating class attends every year), so I may want to apply SCEA there, but I may like Yale or Brown better, both of with which the relationship isn’t as strong. Basically, I’m trying to present myself as a language-loving humanities person with an alternative, punk-rocky twist haha. Any advice welcome.
Thanks so much!!! I really appreciate it.