Hey all,
I did a chance post a couple months ago but my stats and colleges have changed pretty significantly, so I thought I might try again.
My current list: Tufts, Brandeis, Macalester, Carnegie Mellon, UM Ann Arbor, Penn State, Rutgers, Miami (of Ohio), UCLA, UCSD, UCSB. Stanford and Cornell are maybes because I’m not sure if I should even attempt.
Stats:
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Asian/Hispanic
I probably will qualify for some financial aid.
Legacies: None; I’m an immigrant.
Intended major: Double major or minor/concentration in Psychology and Neuroscience or Biopsychology
GPA: 3.98 unweighted/ 4.16 weighted
ACT: 33 composite (Retaking in Sept, hoping for a 34.)
AP: 4 Eng Lang, 4 Bio, 5 U.S. History
Junior year courses:
- Spanish 7/8 H
- AP Bio
- Precalc
- AP Eng Lang
- APUSH
- Journalism
Senior year courses:
- AP Gov/Honors Econ
- AP Stats
- AP Lit
- AP Photo
- AP Psych
- Physics
- Journalism
EC’s/Activities:
- School JV soccer team for 3 years, was captain last year
- CYSA (club) soccer team for 6 years
- Involved in crew and cast for school’s theatre department for the past 3 years
- Work at the front desk of my church
- Volunteer for 3 years for AYSO VIP soccer program for kids with disabilities
- Received 30 hours of crisis intervention and suicide prevention training
- Staffer for my school’s newspaper for 2 years, will be an editor for another 2
- Attended CSSSA (California State Summer School for the Arts) in 2013 for Creative Writing
- Attended UC Berkeley’s selective ATDP summer program in 2014 for Social Psychology and Creative Writing
- Won 3 Gold Keys and 12 Honorable Mentions in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards since 7th grade
- Volunteered at a special education summer program for high schoolers for 4 weeks and at a Kickstart to Kindergarten program for 2 weeks this summer
- Participant in my school’s buddy program, where upperclassmen act as mentors to groups of 6 or 7 freshmen
If you have a chance post of your own, leave me the link and I’ll give it a go. Thanks in advance!