Texas Resident, white non first gen college student
Intended major: Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering (still undecided between these three)
Income: no way any need-based aid is coming my way
Stats:
3.3 UW/4.0 W
(I’ve recalculated this to be a 3.8 UW/4.5W, I have no clue how my school’s gpa system makes sense)
My school also doesn’t rank. It’s not super competitive/well known, but near the top of the class people are really smart and classes get difficult if you take the hardest available (which I have)
Best single ACT: 34 composite
36 Reading, 36 English, 29 Math, 35 Science
APs:
Sophomore Year:
WHAP- 3
Psychology- 4
Junior Year:
AP Lang- 5
APUSH- 5
What I’m going to take Senior Year:
AP Physics C: both Mechanics and E&M tests
AP BC Calc
AP Lit
Aiming for 4s or possibly 5s in all I’m taking senior year
My school offers relatively few APs; I took every class AP that I could’ve taken AP
Misc:
I’m part of PLTW, which is like a high school engineering class, and I’ve done really well in all of those classes. I’m also doing a capstone project this year where we take the whole year to engineer a product that solves a problem in our community
ECs:
-around 600 service hours from volunteering at a summer camp I went to as a camper + probably 50ish more from a bunch of little things
-Part of School’s Link Crew
-NHS
-Played Basketball/Golf at school for all three years
-I’ve won two golf tournaments as a member of a team of ~5 people, which is pretty difficult to do
-Active member of church’s youth group
-Have gone on several mission trips with youth group
-I can’t think of anything else I swear I have a life
Essays:
Don’t want to disclose what I wrote about since apps aren’t due yet, but I feel like I really hit it out of the park with these. I had a professional college essay editor read my common app essay and my UVA supplementals and he thought they were all good
Letters of Rec:
PLTW engineering teacher that I got to know really well and had for sophomore and junior year: 9/10
Camp Director (where I’ve worked the past three summers): 10/10, he’s known me for literally forever and has a great opinion of me
Counselor: I probably know her better than other students 8/10
UVA is far and away my first choice but please be brutally honest; I’m curious as to what y’all have to say and won’t get offended if you say I’ve got no chance lol