UW GPA: 3.74 (?)
My school does not weigh GPA’s. I also think it’s important to say that my GPA has been on an upward trend since freshman year. I’m a junior, and this year I have a 3.9 (though of course finals have not started yet, but I doubt it’s changing anytime soon). I’m not sure what I had freshman year, but I know combined with soph year it was around a 3.5.
PSAT - 1410 (haven’t taken the SAT yet, but I’m expecting around a 1500)
Extracurriculars (& misc) -
5 years of piano lessons
Various school plays over the years
Freshman year:
school I was at offered no clubs. Also switched in the middle of the year so options were limited. Had a lot of personal hardships at this time
Sophomore year:
Mu Alpha Theta (math honors society)
Helped run Relay for Life (charity run)
Participated in charity club
Junior year:
Volunteered at an animal shelter w/ school club
Choir (only junior year)
Girls who Code club
Science Honors Club
Help run food bank
Finalist in National Shakespeare Competition
Summers:
Volunteered at a soup kitchen 2017
Participated in a poetry club where we did open mics and stuff 2017
Worked at a summer camp 2016-2017
Participating in the Girls Who Code 7-week summer immersion program this summer 2018
Took algebra 2 during summer 2016 to get ahead
APs - my school only allows 4 APs per student, and they are very reluctant to let you take them. So far the only AP I’ve taken is AP Bio this year, and I haven’t taken the AP exam yet. Not expecting over a 4 though. I was also in the AICE program at my old school, where we couldn’t take APs sophomore year, and my originalfreshman year school did not offer APs.
Schedule -
Freshman: honors English, honors world history, geometry honors, physical science, spanish 2, gym, creative writing
Sophomore: AICE (honors) English, AICE (honors) world history, precal honors, honors bio, spanish 3 honors, AICE (honors) thinking skills
Junior: AP Bio, english (my school doesnt offer honors english or history), precal honors (i’ll explain below), drama, hebrew honors, US history
Planned Senior Schedule- AP psych, AP stat, history, honors physics, possibly AP comp sci
Major - comp sci, most likely
Demographics - I am the only black & white mixed girl in an all white jewish private school in new jersey. Only thing is I am on HEAVY financial aid. Freshman year 1st sem I went to a charter school, 2nd sem & sophomore year a public school. Both the public school and charter school were in florida
The reason I was forced to retake precal was because my precal teacher sophomore year ended up getting fired and we basically didn’t have a teacher for 4 months, so I left unprepared for a higher level math course. School said it wouldn’t be a problem as I could explain this on my transcripts, though I am still a bit worried.
Top choices (in order from greatest to least):
Barnard (dream school - assuming it’s impossible because many people from my school are legacies)
USC
Emory
Lehigh
Brandeis (my school is an actual feeder school for brandeis, if that helps at all)
U of michigan
NYU
UCLA
Scripps College
I know these schools are very, VERY different, but I didn’t want to limit myself to one specific type as the only school I have visited is Barnard (no big schools yet) so I don’t know which environment I prefer. If you could recommend any other schools for me, that’d be great! I also need some safeties, right now my only safety is Rutgers.