Hey everyone! Hope you’re all having an amazing summer. I am planning on applying to my dream school, Notre Dame, this fall. These are my grades, scores and extracurriculars, any advice at all would be really helpful! I’m hoping to double major in Finance and Political Science so I will apply to Mendoza this fall!
GPA: 4.0/4.0 scale
6.08 weighted (my school has a crazy weighting system! I will have over a 7.2 by the time I graduate)
Class Rank: not completely sure, but definitely top 10% (large public school in FL, my grade has 580 students)
SAT: 2180 Superscore (2 sittings) CR: 650 M: 750 W: 780
(my worry is that my CR is way too low. I’m taking it again in September and I think I will also try the ACT)
AP Classes: AP Human Geography (4), AP World History (3-not reporting), AP Calc BC (5), AP US History (4), AP Spanish (4), AP Lang (5), AP Chemistry (3-not reporting) Next Year: AP Psychology and AP Statistics (online), AP Environmental Science, AP Physics I, AP Lit, AP Macro/Micro
All classes that aren’t AP are honors or chorus
Extracurriculars:
-Varsity Tennis (4 years- Captain) (2-time State Champions)
-Club Tennis (I train 15 hours a week and compete in sanctioned tournaments; not signing)
-Varsity Chorale Chorus (4 years, Superiors awarded my first 3 years in local competition)
-Mu Alpha Theta: VP of Membership, compete on travel team- various awards
-Beta Honor Club: President (conduct service projects every year and tutor)
-Yearbook: 2 year staffer, will be Editor-in-Chief next year (we publish the largest yearbook in the country)
-Anchor Service Club: President; all-girls service club; last year I organized an event that raised money for breast cancer by making T-shirts and we raised over $1000 worth of items to “bring Christmas” to a family in need
-FCA: VP of Membership (member for 4 years)
-Tutor with TrainUp Foundation (tutor student athletes every day after school)
Community Service:
200+ hours
-Sunday School Teacher: I am Catholic and teach Sunday school to 2nd graders every week, but since I go to a public school, they do not let me document the hours for my work there
-This year I am organizing a project to collect scholarship money for low-income students at my school. I will run this project through Beta club, where we are starting to assemble a committee. Our goal is to raise $10,000
-Bible Study: I run a weekly bible study for freshmen girls
-Service Trip to Daytona Beach in 2014 where I worked with mentally disabled workers and low-income children
-Alter Server and Lector at my church
Summers:
I travel with my family over the summers so I don’t have a lot of opportunities to go to special camps. (We’ve been to Utah, DC, Asheville, Alaska, St. Augustine, New York and Atlanta) I attended the Notre Dame Summer Scholars program in 2014 before my junior year. My grandma has been sick this summer so I have spent most of my summer with her. (I might write an essay about this)
Extras:
I am fluent in Spanish even though my family are not native speakers. I have no legacy to Notre Dame AT ALL. I have a very large family and everyone has always gone to Florida State so I am like the black sheep, but I love everything about ND and really hope I can get in! I am a white female who goes to a large, public school in FL and I am in the upper income bracket (>100,000)
My SAT scores are probably what worry me the most because I spend a lot of time with extracurriculars and sports and my GPA is good. Still nervous because all I want to do is get into this school! I am also applying to Princeton, UPenn, Wake Forest, UVA, UNC Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt (and maybe Florida State). Thank you so much for reading this! I’d appreciate any advice you have!!!