<p>I love Barnard and I’d like to know what current students and/or alum think my chance of acceptance is! Thanks!</p>
<p>The Basics:
-Female
-Rising senior
-Northeast
-Upper middle class
-Attended public for 9th and 10th, private for 11th and 12th (nationally-recognized, #60/100 on Ivy feeder list)
-Intended Major: Environmental Studies</p>
<p>*I think that my strengths are course rigor, standardized test scores, and extracurriculars/awards and achievements.</p>
<p>*My weakness is definitely my GPA, but it does show a consistent upward trend.</p>
<p>Course Rigor: By the end of my senior year, I will have taken 14 Honors courses and 6 or 7 AP courses. I wasn’t offered AP courses until my junior year. Also, the recommended maximum of APs in one year is 3. I’ll be taking 4 or 5 next year.
UW GPA: 3.63 (Upward trend: B+ average in 9th and 10th grade, A average in 11th grade, will maintain straight-A’s this year!) Lowest grade on my transcript is a B. The highest UW GPA in my class on a 100-pt scale is a 94.
UW Rank: Top 8%
ACT: 33 (I’m retaking it in the fall)
SAT II: Literature: 800, Bio: 800, Spanish: 780, World History: 760, U.S History: 770
APs: U.S History: 5, Bio: 5, Psych (self-study): 5, English Literature (self-study): 5, English Language (self-study): 5</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities:
Writing: I devote at least 1 hour/day to writing, not including schoolwork.
Literary Magazine (10, 11, 12)
-Short Story Editor (11)
-E.I.C (12)
Newspaper (10, 11, 12)
-Co E.I.C (11, 12)</p>
<p>Environmental Activism
Environmental NGO (11, 12)
-Co-Outreach Coordinator & Member-at-Large (11)
-Media Relations Coordinator (12, though I did some media work in 11th grade as well)
-National and International Young Delegate (11, 12)
Youth Environmental Activism Group (11, 12)
-Founder & Chair
City Waste/Recycling Department (10, 11, 12)
-Unpaid Intern
Green Team (9, 10, 11, 12)
-President (12)</p>
<p>Other: I dance, do photography, and play the guitar and piano. In terms of academics, besides writing and science, I also love history and linguistics. </p>
<p>Volunteer Work:
I will have accumulated roughly 500 hours of service by the time I apply.
-Environmental-related volunteer work (9, 10, 11, 12)
-Tutor to low-income children (11, 12)
-Friend to autistic children (10)</p>
<p>Awards & Achievements: (I only mention significant ones)
Wrote an award-winning children’s book
Earned 2 Scholastic National Gold Writing Awards (Novel & Memoir)
Published in Scholastic’s annual anthology, Best Teen Writers of 2010
Won a prestigious national writing competition (Creative Nonfiction)
Winner of the CT Young Writers Competition
2nd place in Siemens National Sustainability Challenge
Finalist in an international environmental project competition
Developed a composting program utilized by all of my district’s schools and parks
Winner of the 2010 Green Cup Challenge
Winner of an environmental science paper competition - Presented at the U.N’s Annual Commission on Sustainable Development</p>
<p>Summers:
Freshman: Unpaid intern at a local television and film production company
Sophomore: Unpaid intern with my city’s waste and recycling department
Junior: Unpaid intern at the Museum of Natural History (I worked on a biological diversity project) and attended the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio </p>
<p>*Would you recommend that I apply ED to show my interest or RD so that adcoms can see my 1st semester grades? (I’m going to continue to earn straight-A’s.)</p>