Chance Me Tufts ED '22

ACT: 34C (35E 33M 35R 33S)
SAT II: will take US and Math 2

GPA: 98.2 out of 100 unweighted
School rigor difficult (no AP offered)
(upward trend from 9th to 11th)
Rank: 12/396

Extracurriculars:

  • All State Clarinetist (possible nationalist)
  • All County (first chair)
  • Varsity band all four years (first chair)
  • Varsity Tennis
  • Mathletes
  • Science/Math club
  • Literary club/Chess club
  • General Student Organization

Volunteer:

  • Development Ambassador (year fundraising)
  • Alumni Advisory Member (part of small successful group advising hundreds of DA’s in fundraising and helping foundation)
  • National Honor Society (muchas horas)
  • Currently ambassador leading a group of 6 members to fundraiser for Syrian Refugees
  • spent summer teaching swimming and tennis
  • spent a month in McLeod Ganj, India during the summer '16 in helping community
  • spent a month in Njoro, Tanzania during summer '17 helping with education/infrastructure
  • several other small volunteer services

Background
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Religion: Agnostic (raised Catholic)
Family: Conservative upper/middle class Catholic (Divorced Parents very young)(often take 2 hour train to or from school in order to see father) (moved 4 times)
School: Private-Catholic All-Boys prestigious high school with zero opportunity for selected courses (electives) (my hate for this school and everything it represents has made me into who I am) (parents “strongly recommended” I attend)
Political: I’m 100% LIBERAL

Personal Essay: I’ve already written it and it showcases who I am in a very comical yet profound manner.
Supplementals: Will show my quirky side. Also will send in my photography and music auditions

Planning on visiting twice before November and interviewing.
Friend there will show me the party scene.

Obsessed with this school, I am incredibly enthusiastic about ED’ing.

Solid profile. I got in RD with the same stats as you, so if you couple your ED application with some good supplements, you should be able to get in. Even though I had the “numbers,” I know what got me in were my humorous, eccentric supplemental essays. Good luck! Hope to see you on the hill next year :slight_smile:

I like your chances.
Good luck!

No party scene at Tufts but ok haha