Hi everyone. I’m a junior and starting to get serious about looking into colleges and I was just wondering if I could get some general feedback on which in state universities to pursue. Hoping to major in international relations or political science.
Stats:
-White, female in Northern Virginia high school
-School doesn’t calculate class rank
-I’m a fluent speaker in Hungarian and hold dual citizenship to Hungary if that counts for anything
GPA:
-4.0 average weighed GPA for freshman/sophomore year
-Semester GPA for junior year is a weighted 4.2, unweighted 3.6
Courses:
-Took the only AP class my school offers sophomore year, got a 5 on AP govt test
-4 IB classes this year, signed up for 5 for senior year
ACT:
-30 composite ACT, 9 on writing
EC:
-FBLA, 11th-12th
-Mentor to freshmen program, 11th-12th
-Working the summer at a country club
-Volunteered for a political campaign for a few months, 11th
-Model UN, 10th-12th
-Won best delegate for MUN at the Virginia Invitational Model UN Conference
-Team won best small delegation at Boston College MUN Conference
Colleges I’ve been considering:
-James Madison University
-Christopher Newport University
-University of Mary Washington
-Virginia Commonwealth University
-George Mason University
-Virginia Tech
-University of Virginia (really a reach)
Very impressive. You shouldn’t have a difficult time getting into those schools with maybe the exception of UVA which happens to be very selective. I would also recommend taking the SAT sometime in the future.