UW GPA: 3.8
W GPA: 4.2
2350 ACT
10 APs completed by graduation (5 my senior year)
Extracurriculars
4 Years Marching Band (Section Leader 2 Years)
4 Years Wind Ensemble (Section Leader 3 Years)
4 Years Jazz Band (Section Leader 2 Years)
2 Years Tri M Music Honor Society (Officer 1 Year)
2 Years National Honor Society (Officer 1 Year)
2 Years Spanish Club (President 2 Years)
2 Years Varsity Swimming
1 Year Adv. Men’s Choir
10 Years Boy Scouts of America (Eagle Scout)
10 Years Piano
(3 Honors Received)
Organized a Blood Drive bringing in more than 50 pints of blood
75 Tutoring Hours
100 Hospital Hours
100 Boys and Girls Club Hours
1 Year Employed at Sports Retail Shop
Received 3 Writing Awards last summer
I have participated in 6 local honor bands over 3 years and have done all state for 2 years
I feel that I spent more than enough time on each application for each school and my recommendations should be great.
Thank you guys, so much.
My resume is similar to yours with the band and the SAT(right?) but my W GPA is 4.8 and I have competed in my schools Math league and ACSL. I think you have a good shot so hopefully I do too. But ultimately it is the luck of the draw… May I ask what you wrote your essays on and when you got in. I am currently a HS junior.
Yale: High Reach
Princeton: High Reach
Stanford: High Reach
Harvard: High Reach
Youve got a shot, but I hope you have safeties
Everything’s believable. You’ve got the ECs and the test scores, but SAT IIs and essays?
Your UW GPA may affect it too. They care less about GPA (most aren’t even using it anymore) and more about individual performance in a course.
The high Ivies are reaches for everyone. What about Dartmouth/Cornell? Where are you from? Make sure to apply to some safeties!
Yale, Princeton, and (usually) Harvard require subject tests, did you take those?
Everything else puts you in range, but these schools are dicerolls for everyone.
Yes I did!
Math II: 800
Bio E: 760
Do you guys know if my Bio score will negatively affect my chances? I’m not sure…
I also applied to Rice, Georgetown, USC, Brown, Duke, Northwestern and Boston College.
You should get into all your other colleges without a doubt except for Rice and possibly Northwestern but you probably still will. The other 4 are reaches for basically everyone. Chance me back tho
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1738675-chances-of-ucla-ucb-au-gw.html#latest
Most of the schools asked me about my summer activities. I just explained that I spent my last two summers volunteering at a hospital as well as the Boys and Girls club. I also went in-depth and explained how my volunteer experiences affected me personally and how those experiences will help shape my future. In another essay, I explained how being a leader in my extracurricular activities helped me overcome certain social obstacles because I have always been socially reserved, but being a leader and working a job that required me to communicate really helped me become a more well rounded person and student.