Hey everyone, thanks for taking the time to read my post and hopefully respond. I am currently a junior applying next fall to most likely to the schools below. If you don’t mind please let me know what you think my chance are of getting into these schools. Also, if you don’t mind, please let me know if there are any schools you think I could get merit aid at - I don’t qualify for need-based but might struggle to pay OOS tuition.
Yale
Uchicago
Columbia
Georgetown
GWU (George Washington U)
UVA
UNC Chapel Hill
Berkeley
Stats:
SAT: 2280 CR: 780 WRT: 790 MATH: 710
GPA: 4.0 unweighted and 5.6 weighted
Rank: 1/700
Essays: I have not written them yet bc I am a junior but I tend to do well with essays and will work tirelessly to perfect them while also making sure they sound genuine rather than calculated.
Recommendations: I plan to get one from my APUSH teacher and the other either from my AP calc teacher or english teacher. They should be solid.
AP Exams: human(4) macro(4) micro(5) spanish(5) world(5) art history(5)
I am taking 6 exams this may and hope to get 5’s on calc psych and apush and then 4’s at least on my others.
I will also take 7 more ap exams after senior year but that will be after decisions so it isn’t really relevant what I will get.
Extracurricular:
Debate Team: 4 years(President, VP, Treasurer, Squad Leader). I won awards at many local and regional tournaments - no huge ones.
Foreign Language Honor Society: 4 years (President).
Rho Kappa (Social Studies): 3 years (Vice President)
Graduate of Youth Leadership Broward Program
I am a peer minister at my church.
Service: many political campaigns, summer camps, cat shelters.
NHS: 2 years
SHAPE service club: 4 years (Historian and volunteer coordinator)
Varsity Tennis: 3 years
Awards: Scholar Athlete, Harvard Book Award, Likely NMSQT qualifier, AP Scholar w distinction, 1st place in impromptu at a local spanish competition.
I am a member of the steering committee for Teen Political Forum, an organization that holds an event every year in which over 1000 high school students come to ask questions of local and state elected officials. I will be chairing the event this upcoming year.
I am an intern on a Senate campaign and do a lot of grassroots community organizing. I was thinking about talking about this in an essay. I basically reach out to politically active people in my county and get them on board. I also help get people out to vote in straw polls and I will be organizing events this summer for the campaign.
I raised about $1000 for an orphanage in Peru to help them build a library and I am traveling there this summer to help them build it. I also speak decent Spanish but not yet fluently and hope to perfect my skills there.