<p>Male
Junior 2013 grad.
Small town public school, North Carolina</p>
<p>GPA:
Weighted: 4.4500
Unweighted: 3.9500
Class Rank: 9 of 196</p>
<p>SAT (will improve):
Reading: 540
Math: 660
Writing: 600</p>
<p>Will take SAT again and ACT later this year.</p>
<p>Activities:
Key Club (Community Service Club) Vice President
Student Body Government
BETA Club
National Society of High School Scholars
Chairman of Red Cross Blood Drive</p>
<p>Baseball (3 years)
Scholar Athlete</p>
<p>Taking all AP classes that are offered plus a couple online.
SAT will improve this year.
Will have good recommendations.</p>
<p>Appreciate any help.</p>
<p>It looks like you’re on the right track, but you definitely should focus on improving your SAT/ACT scores.</p>
<p>Your ECs could be made a bit more interesting, too.</p>
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<p>Don’t put this on your applications. It’s something you pay to get from a for-profit corporation. Thus, it’s in the interest of that corporation to not be selective at all. Really, all this says about you is that you paid for a useless distinction, which therefore isn’t something you want on your apps.</p>
<p>Thank you.
Do you have any suggestions to make my EC’s more “interesting” as you said?</p>
<p>If you’ve done a lot with one of your ECs, writing an essay about it (or about a topic with a strong connection to it such that you’d be able to bring it in for a paragraph or two) is an excellent way to make your ECs stick out a bit more.</p>
<p>Otherwise, it’s mostly just a matter of being sure to make your accomplishments and involvement in each EC clear on the application - not just that you were a member of something, but what you did as a member of that organization.</p>
<p>At this point, unless there’s something you’re interested in and want to try out for a year (or a year and a half), there’s not much reason to add additional organizations. Getting involved with a short-term project of interest if you see such an opportunity would probably be a good idea. Don’t bother with anything you’re not interested in, though.</p>