Hi everyone,
I absolutely love Amherst. The open curriculum is an enormous plus, as is its small size, and extensive Russian resources. I’ve been seriously pondering applying ED at Amherst over restrictive early action at two other great schools. So here’s my stats, please chance me and give me any advice you can.
~white male at small private catholic school
~ranked one in a class of 90
Grades:
Freshman: honors geometry= A+ Honors algebra 2= A honors English= B+ Honors world history= A Italian= A+ Honors biology= A
Sophomore: honors precalc= B+ AP world= A honors chemistry= A honors English= A Italian= A+
Junior: AP language and Comp= A APUSH= A+ honors physics= A+ honors calculus= A+ Italian= A independent study of AP psychology (didn’t offer at school)
Senior year schedule: AP lit, AP gov, AP calc AB, AP bio, Italian 4
Test scores~
SAT: 2200 one and only sitting at this point, world sat ii: 750 also taking Chinese with listening (I’ll explain later haha), lit, and math 1 in the fall
AP world: 4
Expecting 4+ on all of this years tests
ECs~ First I’ll start out with Chinese. I’ve self studied since I was very little and then went to Yale Chinese School every Sunday for five years to become literate. This year I won a state department NSLIY scholarship to study abroad in China for the summer. We’ll be staying with a host family and studying at university (next week actually!). Anyway, I also interned for my state’s gubernatorial campaign during midterm elections. Additionally, I volunteer 3 times a week at a local elementary school and volunteer at church a ton. I’ll have over 900 hours of documented community service by the time I apply for college. In school I am class president, serve on student government, and founded and lead the debate club as president. I also run varsity cross country and play varsity golf. I am really hoping to study IR in college, or some similar route so as to use my language skills. I also independent study Russian and Latin. I really appreciate your opinion on my chances for ED at Amherst and any advice in general. I almost certainly left something out so feel free to ask questions. Thank you!