Hey all, I’m a rising junior at a public high school in PA — most of these schools are reach but I like to think I have a decent chance.
Schools:
- Penn State (Schreyers?) — this is the most preferred
- Georgetown
- UChicago
- George Washington
- UCLA
- Berkeley
ranking the ivies
- Columbia, HYP (definite reaches)
- Cornell (reach, although far more get into Cornell than any other Ivy from my school so might be interesting)
- Penn (preferable, sibling attended and is in state)
Intended major: Political Science, History, PPE/pre-law (if offered)
W GPA: 4.42
UW GPA: 3.69
Class rank: Top 10%
SAT: haven’t taken!
PSAT: 1450 on first try
Currently accelerated a grade ahead in math and science (finished Adv Hon Precalc and Adv. Chem 1 with B+'s)
By graduation, I will have taken 15 AP classes (will not take tests for all):
AP CompSci (5), AP Stat, AP World (both this year), APUSH, AP Lang, AP Gov, AP Comp Gov, AP Macro, AP Micro, AP Euro, AP Phys 1+, AP Lit, AP Psych, AP Calc BC
Clubs:
Forensics — debate captain, likely President senior year
Quiz Bowl — vice president, President senior year
Computer Science Club — vice president
Student Government
ECs:
Working in university physics lab
- learning MATLAB and labview, applying python knowledge
- helping conduct a few experiments with students but not in papers or anything
Volunteered for presidential campaign
- vol’d for primary campaign (probably can guess), spent over 200 hours
- was one of 15 leads for a group of roughly 1,000
- spent another 130 hours on a PAC after the primary before hired
Worked with a PAC
- learned VAN and a couple other data tools
- deputy data manager for a state level org
- was an actual job so that’s cool
Demos: indian dude
Considering I still have a year to go with a fairly tough workload (7 AP’s, Latin, and required Driver’s Safety lul), I think I’ll be able to bump up that GPA, get a better PSAT score, and maybe even a good SAT score. Nonetheless, I’d like to know where I stand now so I have some idea of where I’m headed.