SAT I (breakdown): 2170; 770 CR, 660 M, 740 WR, 11 essay. Planning on retaking - should I bother?
ACT: 33; 36 E, 29 M, 34 combined English/Writing (10 essay), 28 science. Planning on retaking - should I bother?
SAT II:
UW GPA: 3.79
W GPA: 4.58
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9/189
AP (place score in parenthesis): Lang 5, APUSH 4, World 3
IB (place score in parenthesis): none offered at my school
Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP Psych, Chorus III Honors, AP Euro, dual enrollment course at local college for Math 171 and Spanish 111, teacher cadet for middle/elementary school. I will have taken every AP course my school offers except for AP Calc, which I couldn’t take due to a scheduling conflict.
Major Awards: Charlotte Pride Young Catalyst Award for up-and-coming leaders in LGBT activism under 30. I am the youngest ever recipient and first ally to receive this award. It’s a pretty big deal - rigorous selection process, I was honored in an onstage ceremony, mentioned in papers, rode in the parade, etc.
Subjective:
Extracurriculars:
-Independently spearheaded, fundraised, spoke with reporters, assembled materials, printed and distributed flyers, registered all 200 participants, and served on the GLSEN Street Team. These efforts appeared in 4 newspapers, including the Charlotte Observer and Creative Loafing. Also fundraised for local LGBT+ youth advocacy groups via crowdfunding and selling wristbands, totaling over $1000. Part of these proceeds went to providing LGBT±representative literature, or books about historically significant LGBT+ individuals, to the school library. Senior year I will also volunteer for an LGBT youth-specific crisis hotline. GLSEN Street Team member for 3 years.
-NHS president
-Student Director of acapella group for 2 years
-International Thespian Society Vice President 2 yrs
-Freshman student body president
-Some chorus stuff like All-State and being nominated for various honors choirs within the state
-Very active in school theatre and chorus
-Poetry Slam finalist 3 times, overall winner twice, and judge/speaker once
-A Charlotte Observer Blumeys Student Critic (I wrote reviews of high school shows that appeared in the paper).
-Something like 5 or 6 years participating in the Wingate Shakespeare Competition.
Job/Work Experience:
-Weekly tutor for one seventh grader and one freshman with an IEP in math
-Intern for a weekly newspapers conglomerate (actually wrote stories that appeared in the paper, which has ~60000 readership. The only intern they’ve ever had; I reached out to them)
Volunteer/Community service:
-NC Senate Page
-An intern and Student Chair at an early literacy nonprofit (I helped plan the biggest fundraiser they had ever undertaken; I did pretty much all the decorations, planned the silent auction, and was interviewed on WBTV primetime about the event) —All the LGBT stuff
-Online peer tutor through NCVPS (I’ve never taken an online class in the subjects I tutor, I reached out to them even though I didn’t “technically” qualify because I thought I was a good fit).
-I will also have the crisis line I mentioned by the time I apply.
Summer Activities: The early literacy internship I mentioned, the journalism internship I mentioned, senate page, a Duke TIP Shakespeare camp
Essays: Probably good, but still drafting. Mostly centered on my LGBT activism and explains how what seems to be a wide range of extracurriculars tie into it (for example I did Senate Page so that I could understand how policy was changed with regards to LGBT issues; I did the literacy nonprofit both because I love books and because I wanted experience/connections with the business side of nonprofit administration)
Teacher Recommendation: APUSH, Honors Psych, and AP psych teacher (9/10, knows me very well, I am a very active student in his class), APEng teacher (7-8/10), chorus teacher (8/10), I may ask the literacy nonprofit who don’t know me very well but really like me
Counselor Rec: (7/10, barely knows me)
Additional Rec: I have a relative (pretty distant, I’m not a legacy) who worked in Wake admissions and is sending a letter to them on my behalf
Interview: went pretty well, I was unhappy with the questions she asked. I ended up presenting myself as an LGBT activist first and foremost with a lot of intellectual curiosity, also talked a lot about acapella, books and my intended career (publishing).
Other
State (if domestic applicant): North Carolina
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Very backwoods old public school with a bad reputation and literally no opportunities. Something like 1000 kids, 200 in my class
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 225k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I suppose my relative might be a hook
Major: English