<p>Amherst ED
96.4 avg(school doesn’t do gpa or lettered grades), no class rank
ACT: composite 30, M 32, S 32, E 28, R 29 (Waiting for Sept Scores)
Senior Year Sched: AP AB calc, AP us gov, AP comparative gov, AP French, AP Bio, AP english, College Economics, gym, and band
Junior Year= 3 AP classes: Chem, US, and English
EC’s:
National Honor Society
Foreign Language Honors Society (Vice President)
Music Honors Society (Running for Office-will see)
High Honor Roll every Semester
Summer Job as a lifeguard
School Newspaper club- editor
Received an A grade for an All State music audition on the xylophone
Selected to go on a research trip to the Galapagos Islands this Winter
4 years on the high school varsity swim team and captain senior year. My relay won the county champ one year which is a good fact but I don’t think I am good enough to swim in college
Community Service(Teaching private swim lessons)
Tutoring in all subjects for a job and community service
Let’s hope they really like my essay’s and recs because from what I heard Amherst really puts emphasis on those areas.</p>
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<p>Are you sure about not being fast enough to swim at Amherst? The swim team is good for Div. III, but that could be your hook.</p>
<p>Don’t even bother about even thinking about swimming at Amherst unless you have Jr. Nat cuts already (and real Jr. Nat cuts – not NCSA cuts). Yea, Amherst swims in DIII, but they’re always in the top five at NCAAs. Seriously, they’re fast.</p>
<p>Yeah, I definitely was not planning on getting recruited to swim in college because I know I am not good enough. I just included my swimming accomplishments because it is a big part of my life and extracurricular activities that lead to ideas like including a swimathon event to raise money for local food pantries. I created this thread mainly to see if i had a chance at getting into Amherst based on academics.</p>
<p>baseballf973,</p>
<p>To be sure, your HS swimming remains an extra-curric. My only point was that unless you are an actively recruited swimmer it won’t serve as an admission “hook.” On the academic front, your test scores jump out to me as below Amherst’s threshold. If you can re-take, you should.</p>