Hey guys, I’m new here, so I apologize if I do anything wrong with this sort of post. Just been curious lately as college applications are right around the corner.
Our school hides our transcripts from us (odd, I know), so I don’t have exact grades but rather mostly accurate estimations based on my general performance in classes.
UW: 3.2
W: 4.1
SAT: 1320/1600 (did not do the essay, is not required for UCONN)
Reading: 680
Math: 640
EC: Student representative for the board of education
Member of world language honor society, most likely President seeing as there will be no other candidates opposing me in the coming year
Prom Committee 2015-16 and once again for 16-17
Soccer all four years
Link Crew 15-16, 16-17, working with freshmen to integrate them into the school and ultimately assimilate them into high school life, run many events throughout the year
Background: I am a 100% ethnic Albanian and am Islamic.
In terms of rigor of my schedule, I have taken, at the minimum, an honors level for each course. Freshman year I was involved in an accelerated program where we doubled up on math and skipped the regular freshman science and went straight into biology. We had to apply and take an entrance exam to be accepted into this program, and were with the same students for each and every class. Sophomore year I took one AP, AP Computer Science, with every other class being honors, including taking junior level math and science due to my accelerated path in freshman year. Both freshman year and sophomore year I maxed out my schedule and did not have a single schedule, again, with all classes being at least at the honors level. (Our school doesn’t really allow you to take AP as a freshman and sophomore, I had to argue to get AP Comp Sci)
Junior year, I took 4 APs, being AP Calculus AB, AP United States History, AP Physics 1, and AP Statistics. I took an independent study as well and took the maximum amount of courses possible. My senior year, which is upcoming, I will be taking 5 APs, including AP Calculus BC, AP World History, Spanish 5 ECE (early college experience with UCONN, I’m just including it in the AP count), AP English Lit, and AP Computer Science Principles. By the end of high school, I will have taken 10 AP courses.
Freshman year, I had a rough start, getting 3 Cs, two of which were in math. However, I showed massive improvement over my high school career, ending a vastly more difficult junior year with a 95 GPA (solely for that year). This is also seen through my taking of AP Calculus AB (ended with a B) regardless of my terrible foundation in math. I have taken 4 years of every subject, except science, which is 3, unless you count AP Computer Science as a science. I have doubled up on math 2 out of my 4 years.
I am also in-state, if that makes a difference.
For my essay, I plan to emphasize the fact that I have improved myself through high school and sheer dedication, proving this point through my math work in school. Ultimately the point is to show how, when I was pushed to the limit by almost failing Algebra 2, I bounced back and turned my academics around. This is a work in progress, but the idea is there.
My letter of recs are coming from my junior year English teacher, AP United States History teacher, and my AP Calculus AB teacher.
Thank you for reading and for answering if you feel you can give a valid opinion. Let me know if anything here is done incorrectly or if more information is needed. 