<p>Applying early action For political science.
First generation Student
White female from NJ
SAT cr: 600 math: 610 writing: 560 (I know, not the best)
GPA: 4.0 42/238 (top 20%)
extracurriculars:
Soccer for 1 year
Varsity swimming 2 years
Student ambassadors (president) 3 years
Key club 4 years
National honor society 2 years
Fbla 2 years
Spanish club 2 years
Invisible children 2 years
Environmental club 4 years (treasurer)
Non school activity/volunteer work:
volunteer every summer as camp counselor
Volunteer at library
Summer nanny
Cashier
Volunteer at animal shelter</p>
<p>Delaware no longer offers early action(decision) for OOS students. OOS students are notified in mid-March of the decisions. Has your course work included honors/AP classes? UD focuses on rigor of HS courses, grades in “core” subjects, overall GPA and class rank in making admission decisions with a lesser emphasis on SAT/ACT scores (but they are not irrelevent). Your SAT scores (at least CR and Math) are competitive for admission. Your EC’s are good. Apply early. Write a great essay. Make sure you are taking 5 major (“core”) courses both semesters of your Sr. yr. with as many honors/AP classes as possible. The largest number of OOS students at UD are from NJ (and I therefore suspect the largest number of OOS applications are from NJ residents), so you will be having a lot of competition from other NJ residents. Whether this is an issue in admission decisions or not is somewhat debatable. You might want to consider taking the ACT exam (some students seem to do bettter on this exam rather than the SAT exams). My perspective would be that if you have taken some honors/AP classes, gotten good grades in them (and continue to do so in your Sr. yr.), that your chances for admission are reasonably good. With that being said admission to UD has been becoming increasingly competitive over the last 5 yrs. so make sure you have a good backup plan just in case you are not accepted. UD applicants go through their own version of “March Madness” as they wait for admission decisions to be released. Best of luck to you.</p>