Hey! I’d appreciate all of your advice. I’m a junior right now. Here is the list of colleges I want to apply to:
- University of Southern California (Reach)
- UCLA (Reach)
- Occidental College (Low Reach)
- Vanderbilt (Reach)
- UC Irvine (Low Reach)
- UC Santa Barbara (High Match)
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (High Match)
- Cal State Northridge (Match
- Cal State Long Beach (Match)
- Cal State Los Angeles (Match)
- University of Central Florida (Safety)
If I go to any of the private schools, I would need a fairly significant amount of (mostly merit) aid. I would probably need to get outside scholarships to go to any of the UCs (since I probably can’t get any scholarships from the school as an OOS student, and I can’t pay full price tuition). My family could probably pay for any of the Cal States and UCF.
Ideally, I would really want to go to any of the colleges #1-3. I really love Southern California, have family there, and plan on living there even after college, which obviously played a role in my choices. I really love the programs of schools 1-3, especially occidental, but I think I prefer the larger size of USC and UCLA. However, in the end, I’m gonna go where I can pay for, so that’s why I’m giving myself a lot of options that i would still really like, but that I am more likely to be able to pay for. For USC, my PSAT score will likely give me national merit, so I am likely to get 1/2 tuition automatically if I get in. If that does happen, I might be able to make it work with that price, but I’ll have to be working in college (which I plan on doing either way, I just don’t want to put most of the money I make towards tuition).
Here’s My Stats:
-Public High School Junior in Florida
-White Male
-Class Rank: 1 (as of now)
-GPA: 3.97 UW, 5.028 W (on 6.0 scale)
-ACT: 34 (31 M, 35 E, 35 R, 33 Sci, 09 WR)
-SAT: 1st: 1490 (750 M, 740 R, Essay: 6,6,6)
2nd: 1500 (740 M, 760 R No Essay)
Superscore: 1510 (750 M, 760 R)
-SAT II: I took spanish, literature, and math 1 in May, still don’t have scores.
-Grades: I’ve had straight A’s in all my classes, except for a B and a B+ in precalculus sophomore year. I’ve taken 6 science classes (including chem, bio, and physics), 6 math (alg1/2, geom, pre-calc, statistics, honors calculus), all AP History, 3 english classes, band all years.
APs:
AP Human (9th): 5
AP Seminar (10th): 5
AP World (10): 5
AP Spanish Lang (10): 5
AP Enviro (10): 5
AP English Lang(11): No score yet
AP Spanish lit (11)
AP Physics 1 (11)
AP US History (11)
AP Statistics (11)
Senior Schedule: AP Eng Lit, AP Bio, AP Psych, AP Gov/Hon Econ, DE College Algebra/Pre-Calc, Band, Jazz Band
Extra Cirriculars:
-Marching Band (9th-12th)
Asst. Section Leader (11th)
Website Coordinator (11th-12th)
Section Leader (12th)
- NEHS (10th-12th)
Treasurer (11th-12th)
-NHS (11-12)
-Spanish Honor Society (10-12)
Work: I have a minimum wage job that I work about 20 hours per week (Jan 2017-present, will work through senior year)
Volunteer Experience:
- Middle School Band Camp Volunteer (2 weeks summer 2016)
-I plan on volunteering for Food for the poor 5-10 hours per week the whole next summer.
-160 hours total as of now
Other: I learned to speak spanish in middle/high school.
Thanks for your input!