Hi, CU Boulder is my dream school and I submitted my app on Sep.28 and all materials were recieved by Boulder last night as a history major
3.53 UW GPA
22 ACT
1 AP, 2 Honors, and 3 Dual Credit Classes
Highly competitive public high school (#85 in the country)
National Society of High School Scholars
Honor Roll every year
4 years of every major subject including spanish
White Male Out of State (NJ)
History courses taken- World Civilizations Advanced Frosh year (B as final grade), US History 1 Sophmore year (A as final grade), US History 2 Junior Year (A as final grade), and AP World History Senior Year (Currently taken and doing well)
ECs
Habitat for Humanity (4 years) (Volunteering)
FOP (4 years) (Volunteering)
Key Club (3 years) (Volunteering)
Blood Drive (2 years) (Volunteering)
DECA State Qualifer (3 years) (Business Competition)
Many Many hours of community service
Leadership–
President and Founder of Non profit charity, *was featured on national news!!!
Publicist of Habitat for Humanity
Executive Board Member of Habitat for Humanity
Treasurer of a youth group
Job Experience
Sleep away camp counselor (2 years)
Assistant at a Chiropractic office (4 years)
Great Letters of Rec, Essays, etc
Also when do you think I will hear back from CU? Thanks!
You have very solid grades and ECs.
Thats a really low ACT Score. What is your verbal/English scores? You should take your
ACT again. From New Jersey, most public schools are outstanding, and you say you are going to a top ranked one, so what happened there? are you having trouble with finishing
the test? You should study and take it again, just to prove to yourself that you can get a better score.
History is a strong department. Look up Professor Elizabeth Fenn, Pultzer Prize winner in the history department at CU.
@Coloradomama thanks for responding! I took the act again this weekend, and I am not the best test taker have some degree of test anxiety and start to panic in the test. (English score is a 25 and Reading was a 23 on ACT)
Nice work! Thats a big improvement from your earlier score of 22, I hope. I guess you did not say what your composite was. They will look at composite I believe, Some schools throw out the science score but CU Boulder does not throw it out.
@Coloradomama My composite is a 22 ( English-25, Reading-23, Math-18, Science-21). Took it again this weekend though and applied in late september hoping for a december decision!
I think your ACT is way too low, from what I’ve heard admissions are becoming significantly more competitive, especially given how hard admissions are at the UC’s.
