White Female from a Large Public High School in the suburbs
Major Engineering Undecided
ACT- 32 superstore (E33, M30, R31 S33) single sitting 30 because I got a 22 on reading the first time
GPA weighted 4.05 (Our school doesn’t give unweighted, but it is around a 91)
AP- WH-5, APUSH- 5, BC Calc - 5, AB subscore - 5 currently in AP Enviro AP Gov’t AP Stats with straight As first quarter
I took 3 years of foreign language in high school (2 at the level below honors junior year honors) all other courses at the honors level
EC
Field hockey varsity 3 years, senior captain, JV 1 year. Interviewed multiple times by local media
Club Field Hockey traveled throughout the United States including a national qualifier
Lacrosse varsity 3 years, senior captain JV 1 year
Math Team 4 years, captain
Science Fair, 13th place school 4th place regional 3rd place states. Participated freshman- junior year
NHS Community Service Officer- organizing of 1800+ service hours and runs monthly service drives
Math Honor Society- President
Spanish honor society
Girl Scout 10 years- cofounder of a town wide fundraiser and 300+ hours community service
Help runs a science camp to teach how to conduct year long independent research projects to freshman
Member of a mentorship program that connects students to local researchers
Eureka- Upper class men mentoring underclassman in science.
1st chair bassoon in honors band junior year, multiple music awards, and plays flute pep band,
Applying to
Tufts (ED legacy and superstore ACT)
if I don’t get in
Cornell
Dartmouth
Villanova
Bucknell
RPI
WPI
Manhattan college
UMASS Amherst
I totally will take suggestions on other schools as well in general I was looking at liberal arts colleges that have engineering (I know WPI and RPI are not that type of school)
All of these are matches to reaches maybe except for cornell and dartmout. You have good extracurriculars, however, they’re a little bit of this and a little bit of that and combining them in a meaningful way to the admissions officers will be a little of a challenge, but still doable. Write really strong essays and you wont have to worry that much.
You have a well rounded resume and your grades are certainly good. I think you have a good shot at many of your schools including tufts, especially with ED and a legacy. Good luck! Some other suggestions are Lehigh (they have a reputable engineer program as a liberal arts school), Northeastern, Marist, U Pitt, etc.
Thanks! But thanks for the suggestions for Marist and Pitt I never thought of those schools. I toured Lehigh and Northeastern and wasn’t the biggest fan (Lehigh is more of a reach and I prefer Villanova and Bucknell over it and I wasn’t a fan of the coop program at NorthEastern)
I honestly think you’ll get into Tufts based off your higher than average ACT score (31 average), ED application, and legacy status. Your essays will be important too, but as long as they’re at least decent, I think you’ll have a very good chance.
Thanks to everyone who chanced me. I just wanted to give you an update. I was rejected from tufts
My list of school
Villanova
Lehigh
Lafayette
Bucknell
Wash U
WPI
RPI
Case Western
UMass Amherst
UMass Lowell (Accepted honors college dean merit scholarship)
Manhattan College