Hi! Here are my stats! Please let me know what you think my chances are as a prospective International Studies major.
[ *] ACT: superscored 34- 36E 31M 35R 34S
[ *] SAT II: 690 (world) 680 (lit) 670 (bio- took this one twice but bombed it the first time)
[ *] Unweighted GPA: 93.05/100 Weighted: 98.5 (valedictorian probably has between 103 and 105?)
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): i’d assume top 10%. we don’t rank.
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): Seminar (5) Lang (self-studied 5) world (4) humangeo (4) USH (4) psych (4) research (4) bio (3)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): school doesn’t offer
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP gov, AP macro, AP micro, internship in world history class, French V Honors (no AP offered), AP Lit, honors orchestra, physics (don’t want AP and no honors offered), AP Calc AB, science research Honors
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):[ /list]
NYS History Day award
Competed in a varsity level science research competition (did not win but shows research effort)
AP Capstone Diploma (Received July 2019)
AP Scholar with Distinction (Received July 2019)
School Award for Excellence in Music
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[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): field hockey (grades 10-12 varsity), student gov (officer 10-12), participated in an online course through stanford on the US and China (grade 11- received an A; August-December 6 hours allotted per week), in seven of eight offered academic honor societies (English honor society VP, Social Studies honor society president), FIRST robotics (member in grades 9 and 10, head of outreach grade 11, head of business grade 12), history day/social issues club (member grades 9 and 10, president 11 and 12), science club (member 10-12, historian-11), envirothon (member-10, 11 (maybe 12) captain grade 11), school literary magazine, small leadership in rotary youth program (consisted of attending several retreats and leading at one), varied community service hours but definitely a lot
[ *] Job/Work Experience: summer intern at local historic site. volunteering as tour guide this fall.
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: ^ + mixed honor society, student gov, and robotics activities
[ *] Personal Statement: should be good, shows my creative side
[ *] Teacher Recommendations: should be good- all of the teachers I asked know me very well
[ *] Counselor Recommendation: don’t really know her, but seems to have pulled through for others!
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[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: maybe? income bracket may be too high, but at some point I will have a sibling in college
[ *][ b] Intended Major [ /b]: international studies. maybe a double in English or history?
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: white
[ *] Gender: female
[ *] Income Bracket: upper middle class
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.):[ /list]
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[ *] Strengths: humanities grades. submitting course syllabus for US/China program and submitting research paper that shows a clear international studies/history spike
[ *] Weaknesses: I have some Bs in STEM and a C in math from this year (precalc H- please advise! I had a B until the final!)