W GPA: 4.2
UW GPA: 3.8
Freshman year: 13 A’s, 1 B (one grade each semester, 7 classes, one honor class)
Sophomore year:8 A’s, 6 B’s (6 honors classes)
Junior Year: 11 A’s, 3 B’s (expected. IB)
Senior Year: 11 A’s, 3 B’s (hopeful, leaving room just in case. IB)
IB student course load: HL art, HL English, HL psychology,SL Spanish, SL envir. and societies, SL math studies
Rank: top 10%
EC:
Cheer (4 years, captain)
Council (Senior Class Pres.)
NHS (Vice President)
Link Crew
Italian (self-taught)
French (self- taught)
Track (junior and senior year)
Volunteer here and there (about 250 hrs now)
Student sounding board
summer internship “Cultivating the Youth”
Work Experience: Fast food job
Black Female (URM)
Colorado
family makes less than 45,000/year with 6 in family
Haven’t taken any ACT (june, 2017) or SAT (April, 2017)
I will apply ED. WHat do you think are my chances?
You have a lot of good leadership roles, but to me they seem “get into college” focused. From what I know, it’s much better to have a particular interest that you are thriving in rather than spending your doing volunteer work, government , activity, etc. that doesn’t mean much to you as an individual.
I might be wrong presuming this about you though, and if I am, I’m sorry. I just wish for people to follow their interests rather than a career or college (even though it is important). There’s some misconception that colleges want kids who spend all their time doing volunteering, clubs and other activities, but from information I received from some of my relatives and friends in prestigious colleges, this isn’t true. Much better to be awesome at one thing than to be good at a bunch of things.
Show that you are different from other applicants. My friend got in ED and had 3.95 W gpa, 1260 SAT, 26 ACT but awesome EC’s and probably really amazing essays. This just shows that although stats are important, they are not everything. Try to make yourself stand out.