Caucasian, Female, entering Senior year
Rank: 1/109
GPA: 4.1
ACT: 34 (planning to take one more time for a 35)
Have made only A’s on report cards/ transcript
Have taken 3 AP courses so far, finishing with A’s in all three
Will complete 3-4 more AP courses, and most likely finish with A’s
Extra Curriculars:
Student Council (9-11)
Junior Class President
Key Club (9-12): VP junior year, Pres. senior year
NEHS (10-12): Pres. senior year
NHS: President Senior year
Robotics Team junior year
NAHS (11-12)
Girl Scouts of America (9-12)
Have consistently played piano for 13 years
A LOT of community service hours (haven’t added it all up yet)
18 volunteer service hours at local hospital
active in church activities
Special Awards:
Alexandria BAR Association Law Day Essay Contest: First Place (11)
Literary Rally:
(a statewide academic event in which students complete standardized tests in select subjects and are ranked-LA seems to be the only state that has one of these)
Business English (9) first in district
Chemistry I (10) second in district
English II (10) first in district, fourth in state
English III (11) first in district, third in state
more EC,Service, and Awards to come in the next year
Looks like you have a good profile and are clearly a strong student! Your academics seem on point. I do feel like many of your extracurriculars are fairly conventional, though, so I’d encourage you to make sure that your extracurriculars and essays are presented in a way that shows off what you’re passionate about. You have accomplishments specific to law and English, so if those are the fields that you’re interested in, make sure that comes across in your application in order to give the school a good idea of who you are.
The advice above is excellent. Your ECs aren’t going to take an admissions officer aback for their uniqueness, but you’ve done them at a sufficiently high level for admission to such a school, so make sure your whole application is oriented toward them. Your grades and test scores are stellar, so no worries there. Not sure if you’re applying RD or ED, but I think ED you stand an excellent chance, and RD still a chance (as much a chance as anyone can have during the regular round at any top school! Hugely unpredictable.) Good luck to you!
@MargaretJane If you are in the process of working on your gold award I believe it is more extensive than eagle scout It could be something to talk about in one of the essay questions if you have already worked on some projects and feel you will finish the award before you age out. My son was very active in the Boy Scouts and discussed it in some of the essays. Some of the activities and his project was something he was very passionate about so he talked it.