Hi all,
For some context, I’m an 8th grade (female) from the Bay Area applying to a few BS, and I just wanted to know my chances-- and yeah, I know this website doesn’t change anything in terms of actual admissions chances.
BASIC INFORMATION:
- Asian-American (first gen)
- Fluent in Mandarin and English
- No financial aid
- Attending public school
- My school doesn’t offer a lot of advanced courses/extracurriculars/NHS or similar things
EXTRACURRICULARS:
- I’ve been on a competitive swim team for 5 years now.
- I’ve also done golf for 7 years, but it’s more of a hobby.
- I’ve played piano for 6 years and got to grade 6 in the ABRSM program. I don’t play anymore, though.
- Art for 8 years, proficient in all mediums; I’m also gonna include an art portfolio. Most of my volunteer work centers around this as well. I won a few distinction awards at school.
- I’m on the service team at school, basically, we just do volunteer work locally and plan food drives etc… And as I mentioned before, a lot of my volunteer experience comes from art: teaching preschoolers art, organizing an art class for underprivileged students.
- I take Mandarin outside of school: in the Stanford Chinese program, I’m currently in grade 10 (one grade below AP Chinese).
- If it’s possible, I might include a writing portfolio, because it’s something I enjoy doing in my free time, I guess. I’m also the editor for the student-run literary journal at school.
- I’m taking Classics courses on the Yale Open Course Catalog, and I’m learning Greek and Latin on my own, idek if that’s important at all though.
- At school, I’m in the art club and business club, sometimes I volunteer as a library desk worker. We don’t really have club presidents though, it’s mostly just a teacher running it.
STATS:
- Tbh, my grades were awful in 6th grade; I had mostly A’s, some B’s, and even one C. In 7th grade, I had all A’s except for one B in an advanced math class. So far in 8th grade, I have all A’s, but we’ll just have to see…
- I take the only advanced course at our school, which is math.
- I also just got my SSAT scores and…well…I mean, I got a 93 overall, but I got a 57 in math. I know. I’m definitely retaking in December.
So far…
9th-grade Algebra— 97%
English— 99% (converted from 1-4 scale)
Photography— 96%
Science— 93%
Spanish 2— 100.7%
History— 96%
P.E.— 100%
RECS:
- I’ll start in November, but I guess they’ll be ok. My English teacher really likes me because I’m the only person in my class that actually tries, but idk about math.
SCHOOLS:
Phillips Exeter (REACH)
Deerfield (my dad knows someone there, and I really liked the atmosphere there, but I heard they were super athletic so…idk)
Loomis Chaffee
The Hill School
St. Paul’s
Cate
Webb
Stevenson
Feel free to leave me some more schools that are more “fits,” because I can already sense that rejection letter coming
Btw, sorry for any grammar mistakes or errors in general. I’m tired rnow.
THX~~