Personal: 10th grade white female in Georgia, potential Biology major
PSAT: 1480/1520 (verbal 760/760, math 720/760)
Weighted Average: 100
GPA UW: 3.95
GPA W: 4.0 (4.36 if you count >100 as a 5)
AP’s - AP Human Geography (5), currently taking AP Biology and AP World History, will take AP Physics I, APUSH, Calc BC, AP Lang next year.
2 seasons cross-country (JV), 1 season swim (JV), 1 season golf (varsity by default)
Spring musical freshman and sophomore year, one-act play freshman and sophomore year, fall play sophomore year
Mission trip to Haiti, going on mission trip to Nicaragua this summer
Foreign exchange with Swiss sister school
National French Honors Society
Will probably start a Science Olympiad team and/or join Model UN next year…? I’m also working on an independent research project (nature/nurture and personality) so we’ll see where that goes.
I know my EC’s are unexceptional at best and my grades aren’t ideal, but my PSAT’s are pretty good (I’m pretty sure I’ll do similarly on the SAT) and I’m taking a fair number of AP classes.
Do I have a shot at schools like Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Brown?
I don’t think the actual psat score matters in the decision. However if you become a national merit semi finalist at least, that could help you a lot. This psat scoring system is kinda weird to me so I don’t know how to estimate whether you could make national merit or not but if you can manage to convert it to the old system, I can tell you that scores around 217-218 on average makes it to semifinalist but it all depends on your state… As far as academics and extracurriculars you seem to be on the right track but one of the biggest things that colleges in general consider is the sat or act, so I can’t say for sure. You have to do as well on those tests as you do in school but I’m sure you already know that and I’m confident that if you work hard you can get into any school you want to go to.
However you do need a leadership role or two so my advice is to get those clubs started asap
@marie122 I provided the PSAT as a reference, to show how I think I’ll do on the SAT. I took an SAT in eighth grade and got a 2100 or so, and this PSAT score translates to about a 230 on the old scale I think.
And yeah - I’m hoping to be a cross-country captain or a Thespian officer, if I can manage just one of those along with starting a Science Olympiad team and being a teen leader in my youth group that’ll be helpful.
Great so I think you’re on the right track for Ivy League schools! Getting in is a crapshoot though but the people that got in all had really strong profiles so if you can get there then your chances are going to be really good
