Hi everyone,
I am a rising senior who’s interested in my chances at being accepted as a Questbridge scholar and being matched to Questbridge schools. My dad has gone through several lengthy periods of unemployment throughout my high school years, and our family has had to deal with significant financial instability. Because of these circumstances, I am very interested in the Questbridge scholarship program. I would love to hear what you all think about my chances at being accepted as a Questbridge scholar and being matched with some of the Questbridge schools, including Brown, Yale, Columbia, UChicago, Rice, Notre Dame, Amherst, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Oberlin, and Carleton. Here are my stats:
Gender: Female
Race: White
SAT: 1550 (800 R+W, 750 Math)- because I received this score early last fall, I decided to not worry about studying for and taking the ACT and only apply with my SAT score.
No Subject Tests yet, but I am prepping to take SAT Math Level 2, World History, and English Literature in August and hope to receive high scores.
APs: sophomore year I took WHAP (5), AP Music Theory (5), and AP Latin (4); junior year I took AP English Language (5), AP European History (5), AP Human Geography (5), AP Psychology (5), AP US Government (5), and AP Environmental Science (4).
GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.6-ish weighted
ECs: I have participated in competitive piano throughout middle and high school, placing in many local, state, and national-level competitions. By the time I apply to schools, I will have played two winners’ recitals in Carnegie Hall. I will also have performed three hour-long solo recitals and received an Artist award from my studio. I’ve gone to four summer piano camps on full scholarships. I have taught piano lessons since I was 14 and have been teaching around 10-15 students since the start of my junior year.
I’ve also been a part of competitive speech and debate since I was 12 years old. I have qualified to the regional and national level every year that I have competed, and I have consistently placed/won events throughout my high school years. I have been teaching and coaching Lincoln-Douglas debate and extemporaneous speaking at my club since 10th grade, and this year I’ll be serving as Vice President of our club.
Though I haven’t competed since middle school, I still participate in Irish Dance classes, and during a period of time where my dad was unemployed, I helped to teach beginner classes in exchange for my own lessons.
As a junior, I was president of my chapter of the homeschool NHS. As a sophomore, I was a leader for a chapter of the Junior Classical League, which is an organization that promotes youth interest in ancient Greek and Roman culture, and I was inducted into the National Latin Honor Society. I have received gold medals on the National Latin exam, the National Classical Etymology exam, and the National Mythology Exam.
I’m homeschooled, but I have taken several online AP, honors, and dual credit classes. I’ve received straight As throughout high school and should have two strong core letters of recommendation from my English teacher of two years and my Chem/Physics teacher of three years. I will also have an excellent supplementary letter from my piano teacher, who is almost like a member of my family since I have taken lessons from her for almost 7 years now.
If you took all the time to read this, thanks!
