Hey guys. My financial situation isn’t great, so I decided that macaulay would be my best bet, hopefully baruch or hunter. My profile:
SAT: 710R 780M Essay20 (Retaking in October hopefully 800 math 750 english)
GPA: our school doesn’t weight 3.3 (my gpa is what’s holding me back)
AP: US history/World history(scores)
ACT: planning on taking it on october 28th (earliest i can apply) idk if it’s gonna make the macaulay deadline hopefully 35
Senior year,
AP Mandarin(required); AP Calc BC; AP Macro; AP US gov.; plus some required courses
Recommendations: 2 pretty good recommendations, teachers didn’t release yet.
Trying to finesse my college essay and the supplements
Extracurriculars:
-started a summer tutoring club teaching kids at libraries with my friends we did this every summer nd plan on doing it summer of senior year as well
-track and field(1 indoor season, 2 outdoor season)
-bowling(1 junior year season, 1 senior year season)
-red cross(50hours)
-volunteered as TA at a nearby prep school in summer(200 hours)
-SYEP nyc parks computer center at a rec center
-boys scouts 5 years
-librarian assistant(not worth mentioning)
Born in new york city, grades 1-6 in china, came back to nyc to do high school
I am of Taiwanese descent