Hi, I am asking because I don’t have the best classes, my school is academically rigorous and especially to Mass/NE colleges is known for being a challenging school. Unfortunately, my school doesn’t offer a ton of AP’s sophomore and junior year - only senior year do the options explode. Anyway, thank you for taking your time to read this - please offer tips on how I can improve! Thank you
Additionally, I know if you submit the scholarship form to McGill you can submit extracurriculars/talk more about yourself, so I will do that.
I am planning to apply to the Arts & Sciences faculty.
3.7 GPA
White female from rural/suburban coastal Massachusetts
Public school
PSAT: 1360 (taking SAT + ACT soon, as well as SAT French, SAT Literature, SAT US History)
11th Grade
Job
• Childcare Attendant at local YMCA
• Works at local farm’s ice cream shop
Achievements
• Honor Roll and High Honor Roll throughout highschool career
• States-level swimmer and have placed at States each year
• Regional-level cheerleader (missed States last year by one point)
• Varsity Cheerleading captain
• Varsity Swimming captain
• Wind Ensemble Band Staff member
• Cofounder of English National Honor Society chapter at school
• National Honor Society member
• (Upcoming) French Language summer program in Quebec
• Interning at NEIDL (National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories) with a molecular virologist
• Peer Ed (frosh+soph mentoring program) ‘parent’
Classes
• 11th Grade:
Honors: French 4, Physics, Precalc, ARABIC 1, Wind Ensemble (premier band in school).
AP: English Language, US History
• 10th Grade:
Honors: French 3, Chemistry, Algebra 2, US History 1, British Literature, Wind Ensemble (no APs available soph year)
• I will not mention freshman year classes because I heard McGill only looks at 10th-12th grade classes/grades.
• 12th Grade: (planned):
Honors: Semantics, ARABIC 2, Calc, Anatomy/Physiology, Introduction to Law.
AP: French, US Gov + Politics,
EC’s
• 300+ hours of community service
• Played piano since 6th grade
• Went on three missions trips to Montana (trailer park) and did work projects as well as lead a VBS, as well as to Costa Rica and western Massachusetts.
• JV Spring Track
• Varsity Cheerleading
• Varsity Swimming
• AFS/International Club (focuses on international thinking, expanding my school’s international exposure as well as educating about different cultures)
• Diversity Club (same as above, really, but less international)
• Medical Careers Club
• Decibelles (school’s acapella group)
Service
• Promises for Purple Pancreatic Cancer Walk (3 years ongoing, helping to promote)
• Montana, Costa Rica, western Massachusetts
• Nursery volunteer
• Nursing home caroling
• Volunteered at local Food Pantry
• Decibelles singing events
• Band playing in community events
• Worship band at church
If anyone has other ideas about colleges, I would be happy to hear them! Thanks!