Hi guys! I’m a current senior who applied to 7 schools. BU, Northeastern, and NYU are my top 3, but the other schools I applied to include:
Umass Amherst (accepted, safety)
Tulane (deferred EA)
Tufts (reach)
URI (safety)
I applied to BU as ED2, and the rest EA/RD.
Academics
UW GPA: 3.64
W GPA: 4.10
SAT: 1440 superscore (did not send)
ACT: 32
AP: APUSH (4), AP Physics 1 (did not take test), AP Psych (4), AP Lang (5), AP Bio (test in May), AP Spanish (test in May)
Top 10% of my suburban public high school
Honors Roll & President’s List every year
6 AP classes and every single other class is honors (except for electives)
EC + Awards
Girls JV Lacrosse (1 yr, honors athlete award)
Girls Track & Field (1 yr honors athlete award)
Assistant Coach of middle school girls lacrosse (1 yr)
Church community service & volunteering (200+ hrs)
Art Club (4 yrs + participated in exhibits)
BMC (1 yr, a club dedicated to mental health)
Youth in Philanthropy (1 yr, group that raised money for nearby non-profits)
Student Advisory Leader (1 yr, was in charge of a group of freshmen every Friday for about an hour)
Clarkson University Leadership Award
Work Experience
Assistant Tutor at Kumon 7 hours/week (for like 3 months in 2015)
Sales Specialist at Best Buy, 25 hours/week (since 2015 after I quit Kumon)
Summer Camp Counselor, 40 hours/week for 2 weeks every summer (unpaid)
Bio:
Middle Eastern female from Massachusetts
Family income >200k
Bilingual (English and Arabic)
Biology or Psych Major (mostly Bio) on a pre-med track
I got 2 LOTR’s, one from my AP Physics teacher (who was also the teacher in my freshman student advisory) and one from my AP Psych teacher. I haven’t read them but they should be fine, considering I got along with both teachers fairly well. My essay was also pretty good, it was the challenge prompt on the Common App and was about my first interview at Best Buy (which went horribly horribly wrong). My supplementals for the schools that offered them were my biggest strengths, I think, because I really tried to go out of the box and be kind of unique and witty with the. The thing that I really worry about is my unweighted GPA, which is lower than I want it to be because I got C’s in my honors math classes sophomore and junior year. I am showing an upward trend this year in math, however, with a B+/A- in my honors calc class, so hopefully that helps?? BU is my top school and I should be hearing back in about a month, but I’m super nervous so I thought I would turn here and see how feasible an acceptance actually would be.
Thanks in advance!!