Hi. I’m a junior this year, planning on applying for the Ivies in my senior year. I just want to get some feedback on maybe increasing my chances? I’m sure that no matter what I do, getting a rejection letter is still highly likely, but I just want to get some feedback on things that I can possibly improve on, if that makes any sense haha.
Female, Asian (just to put it there XD
So, here’s my stats (as of the beginning of junior year):
CURRENT Weighted GPA: 4.6385
CURRENT Unweighted GPA: 3.8577 (My school gives 4.0 to A+ and 3.85 to A)
CURRENT rank: 5/449
I attend an ordinary public school
SAT: I took it once and got a 1500, I plan on taking it a second time.
Subject test: Math II and Biology M (haven’t taken those yet)
Intended major: environmental science or buisness
Hopefully my stats will improve since I’m taking a very rigious courseload this year
AP Courseload: (If everything goes expected, I’ll be graduating with 15 AP)
Freshman: all honors, not allowed to taken ap
Sophmore: AP Seminar, APUSH
Junior: AP Research, AP Calc AB, AP World, AP Language, AP Statistics, AP Physics I
Senior: AP Calc BC, AP Gov, AP Environmental Science, AP Economics, AP Psychology, AP Literature, AP Physics II
(I also took some community college courses at my local community college)
Extracurriculars: (not stunning)
Boston Alliance for Climate Education, ACE Action Fellowship (advocate to divest state pensions from fossil fuels)
Science National Honor Society, Co-Founder and Vice President (raise money and raised garden beds)
Relay for Life, signature fundraiser for American Cancer Society, President (raise money to asc, attend annual tufts rfl walk)
Bioinformatics Inquiry through Sequencing at Tufts University (6 week summer program on biosequencing, dna)
Sierra Club, Sierra Student Coalition (SSC) Climate Justice League, community organizer (campaigned renewable energy economy)
Sunrise Movement, campaign volunteer, recruiter (created project on #ShineALight for NHS)
Zonta International feminist organization, core member (Project on “End Violence against women,” recognized at Annual Youth Recognition Night 2018 by Mayor)
Culture Connection Club, Co-Founder and President, affiliated with non-profit organization Chinese Culture Connection (Assisted successful Malden Campaign to elect 2017 city counselor, held Chinese festivals)
Interact Rotary International service club, President (held food drives)
These are some short 6 weeks program that’ll I’ll participate later this year:
BioBuilder Educational Foundation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Intern
The Student Conservation Association, National Crews (a trip into wild, camping)
I will continue to devote time and effort into these clubs, since I feel like I haven’t really accomplished anything big yet. My reach schools will be Stanford, UPenn, and Columbia. I have safeties but I won’t list them here. So, feedback? Thanks a lot for reading this :)))))