Chance me for USC!

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Objective
GPA: 96 or 3.8
SAT: 1410
Class Rank: 60/730 so top 8%
Race: African-American/First-Generation born in America (Nigerian)
Any other hooks: Parents just got divorced, been alone living with my mom for 3 years/ Single parent household

Classes taken so far

  • AP World History
  • AP Psychology
  • AP Environmental Science
  • Honors Algebra 1 and 2
  • Honors Biology and Chemistry
  • Honors Geometry
    Junior Year Schedule (THIS YEAR)
  • AP Physics 1
  • AP Statistics
  • AP US History
  • AP Language and Compositon
  • AP Bio
  • Debate considered honors
  • Honors Pre-Cal
    Senior Year AP Classes I’m taking (NEXT YEAR)
  • AP Literature
  • AP Macro
  • AP Calc
  • AP Gov
  • AP Human Geo
  • Anatomy and Physiology (Honors)
  • Microbiology
  • Debate

USC: Keck School of Medicine for Global Health

Major: Global Health
Minor Hopefully: Women and Gender Studies or English
I’m really passionate about public health, from my clubs and extracurriculars, I love giving back to the community and learning about how we can solve problems that stunt growth in our community. I hope to focus on diseases that impact other countries with a focus on Africa and women. I also want to participate in Peace Corps in college. My dream is to go into Global Health Law and eventually work for the United Nations. Consider myself and advocate of social justice and a health community.

Subjective
Clubs

  • President of debate team (I go to finals pretty often, will go to state this year)
  • National Honor Society
  • Class Vice President
    -Created a Club known as Girl UP which raises money for the United Nations for Girls all over the world (President). We started a drive at our school that collects pads, tampons, and other stuff for women at Haven for Hope. Created an annual color run called: A Walk in her shoes open to the whole school district. Started a girl’s camp over the summer that has different activities for girls at my school. Culture fest for different cultures at my school to raise money and awareness.
  • Participate in food distribution for church every month.
  • Future Physicians Club (Secretary); Just a career based club where talk about health professions and visit different
  • Youth Community Leader for church; I organize all the community service activities and clothing distributions that youth in the church does.
  • Play piano for church every Sunday (fun fact) also play the violin and was in orchestra
  • Volunteer work at University Health System (75 hours+)
  • African American Culture Club
  • Run Youtube Channel and a Blog that talk about studying and my life.

Job Experience
-Working at a family business in STL since I was 8 or 9

Letters of Rec I’m getting
-AP Bio Teacher also the sponsor for m club/very close relationship. Georgetown Alumni
-AP Stats Teacher: Also pretty close with
-Debate Coach: Extremely close with
-AP English Teacher: knows my writing and personality
-APUSH teacher (maybe): Great TEACHER one teacher of the Year in Texas

Scholarships?
Trustee or Presidential Scholarship at USC

Essays
-Topics I’m considering writing about
-I really want to reflect my passion about helping the community and my trip to Nigeria. My trip was what really what made me decide that I wanted to pursue the major I wanted to pursue public health with a concentration in social work

  • Kind of piggy backing of the first idea: I wanted to write an essay about women in Africa and how I feel as a Nigerian-American girl about child marriage, why I started Girl Up.
  • My dad’s store being a victim of the Ferguson Riots back in Summer '13
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wow! I’m impressed. While my insight might not be as helpful since I’m not an admission officer, I think you have a great chance. Your story is compelling, and I think USC would be lucky to have you at their school! Are you low-income? If so, you should look at QuestBridge, USC is on the list. Good luck to you!

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@atl989 Thank you so much!

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Hi, you have definitely gotten your foot in the door with your GPA. However, your SAT is below average for USC so I am not sure how likely you are to get any merit scholarships. You have a lot of AP classes and you seem to have done well in them so that bodes well for you. You also have an impressive set of ECs and seem to have a great essay which will definitely help. I don’t think your low(er) SAT score will hurt you much so I think you’ll get a fair read for USC and have a decent chance of getting in. I would recommend trying to take the SAT once more to get above their 1450 average benchmark just to increase your chance even further. As far as merit scholarships, they are very selective and offer very few and so increasing your SAT will help with that. Keep up the good work and good luck in your studies and application process!

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To be honest, I think you do have a pretty solid chance. No guarantees of course, but I think you should be fine if you can maintain your mark and have a solid personal profile :smiley: