I really need to know which schools are realistic for me to apply too. Don’t want to spend a ton of money just on apps when I don’t really even have a chance. Some of the schools I’m thinking of applying to:
Tulane
Notre Dame
Northwestern
Duke
USC
NYU
Race: White
Gender: Female
High School: small, public magnet in Louisiana
GPA
4.0 UW
4.8 W
taken all H/AP except for classes that are not honors but still required to graduate (act prep, pe, etc)
RANK
1/76
ACT
Composite: 34
Superscore: 35
(36E,33R,34M,35S)
SAT
English: 700
Math: 790
No subject tests
waiting for august score (is an ap score a good substitution for this?)
(think i got at least 730 in eng this time)
APs
APUSH-4
AP chem-5
AP eng lit-4
AP scholar
(I only have so little bc this was all my school offered freshman-junior yr)
ECs
-Mu Alpha Theta (math honor society) 8-12
Historian-11
Treasurer-12
State Board memeber-12
-Talanted art program (through the parish) since elementary school
-Student gov (9-12) general member
-National Honor Society (11-12) general memeber
-National English Honor Society (11-12) general memeber
-Service hours ~80 (not including 50 per yr required by NHS)
-Part time job ~15 hrs/wk (11-12)
-Volunteered at local library summer before junior year
-Took a summer course at Tulane summer before senior yr (meant for high schoolers so not like it was super hard or anything)
SPORTS
Varsity Shotput (10-12)
-helped coach middle school sp too
JV Volleyball (11)
-may not include, only did it one yr
SENIOR COURSE LOAD
ap lang, ap psych, ap calc ab (all yr), ap seminar, ab bio(all yr), world history H
AWARDS (not many lol)
-AP chem award (11)- teachers award one kid from each of their classes for being most dedicated/hardworking etc
-Superintendent’s award (9-11)- mantaining a 4.0 W all yr, given through the parrish
RECS/ESSAY
teacher (chem)- great
teacher (english)- good
counsuler- idek (just got a new counsuler this year, not really sure how shes going to be able to write a good rec)
essays- im not really that interesting as a person, but my writing skills are pretty good