My dream school is NYU but that’s unrealistic so my top considerations are Cal Poly SLO, University of Washington, BU, AmericanU, New School, OSU. Safeties smaller state schools, WWU. I understand that these are generally selective schools so I’d really appreciate advice and new suggestions. Can expect good letters of rec and personal statements, but my ECs are a little lackluster - and I have no substantial awards or achievements to speak of - so those are my main concerns.
White/Asian female
80K income bracket
Class rank N/A
HI, not amazing public school
UW GPA 3.8, W 4.1+
SAT 1420 first try
ACT 30 first try
AP: APUSH 3:(, CSP, Lang, Bio, will take Environmental and Lit senior year (took all offered AP courses excluding art)
Honors Bio, Geometry, English, History as underclassman
ECs
Varsity swim w/letter - 4 yrs
GSA - current president 3 yrs
Earth club (officer, probably president next year) - 3 yrs
Art/photography club (officer) 4 yrs
NHS (officer) - 2 yrs
Computer Science club - 2 yrs
Self study a lot of languages for fun but probably irrelevant
Volunteer with Healing Horses and Special Olympics, tutor elementary school kids, work part time job ± 20hrs/week in a restaurant.
Plan to retake both the SAT and ACT - focusing on ACT to try for at least a 32. My stem scores were awful. I intend to major in the humanities and am open to schools anywhere except the midwest (just kidding) but I’d sincerely appreciate some input! 