High school junior, white female, from big-ish high school in Oregon
Stats:
-3.75 uw gpa, 4.1 weighted
-30 ACT, retaking in December to see if I can improve
AP European History (3, took freshman year)
AP Physics 1 (3, retaking this year to get better score lol)
AP US History (5)
Taking AP Chem and Bio this year, next year AP Psych (test only), AP Calc AB and AP Lit and Comp. Basically all APs that are offered at my school.
EC:
Founder and president of Red Cross Club (only been active for one year)
Color guard for three years, captain this year (and probably next year)
Founder of science bowl team (captain too)
Model UN starting this year (something I’m really excited for)
Part time job at sandwich shop, 15-20 hours a week
Tutoring kids in general chemistry at high school
Odd volunteering here and there, mostly at local food bank… I could estimate like 75 hours total there and 25 everywhere else (Smithsonian online transcribing, crisis text line volunteer, etc.)
Self-taught Russian and ASL (mom teaches deaf and hard of hearing kids)
(ECs could probably be stronger…)
Awards: AP Scholar, set up to earn Advanced Honors diploma when I graduate (basically valedictorian at my high school; we have a weird system), couple minor science and history awards
Can assume my counselor and teacher recs will be pretty great… me and my counselor have a great relationship and talk often & the teachers I’m planning on asking know me well (AP chem and physics teacher, helped me found science bowl team).
Here are the schools I’m considering applying to:
Reed College (ED, first choice)
UT Dallas (close to family in Texas)
SMU (also close to family in Texas)
UC San Diego
Santa Clara College
Mount Holyoke
Smith College
Rice
UT Austin
Portland State University
Oregon State University
Baylor
Will narrow down choices as I go :,). Or suggest colleges you think would work well with my stats… I’m still a bit lost in the process.
(edit) Forgot to say what I was planning on studying… Chemistry with an emphasis in biochemistry. Maybe double major, not sure what yet though. Thinking history.