Hello Everyone! I am going to be a Junior in HS with my first choice being Columbia, I think I’m going to do EA. If you have any advice on things I should do my next two years please do not hesitate!
What are my chances at ivy league schools?
Freshman Year GPA - 3.6 UW
Sophomore Year GPA - 4.1(4.0 Unweighted) - I currently have a 4.05 gpa for that year but I am retaking 2nd semester Alg2 that I received a B over the summer to bump it up
PSAT Score - 1250 (Sophomore Year, but I never studied once for it)
Expected GPA by (end) of senior year: 4.4
Extracurriculars -
Freshman year:
-community youth theater, was doing it for the past 5 years
-Leader In Training at the Boys and Girls Club
Sophomore Year:
-DECA, won 1st in state for DECA comp
-Guitar Club
-Worked part time at a movie theater.
Sophomore summer:
-Intern for Campaign manager for statewide political campaign
-Field Intern for the Arizona Democratic Party
-Accepted into selective edu program by the AZ ACLU to learn how to start campaigns, focusing on brining awareness to the discipline gap and school to prison pipeline in out community.
-roughly 200 hours of community service
-part time job at a movie theater
Junior Year:
-Model U.N.
-DECA, might run for state office
-(maybe) start an activism club
-Stay involved in the ACLU’s efforts to end systemic racism in schools via their campaign in January.
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I also really enjoy Philosophy and might take a philosophy class at a cc, which is one of the reasons I want to go to Columbia so bad. NYC is a melting pot of diversity and different ways of thinking, especially the core curriculum of the school.