Chances for the Barret's Honors college?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Arizona State University
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<p>Please note that I am currently taking the hardest course load possible.</p>

<p>I went to a day school (ranked number 1 day school in the Southwest) for 2 years of high school. Freshman and sophomore year. I was extremely unhappy there and my grades suffered as a result. All classes there are considered “honors”, even though they are much harder.</p>

<p>Freshman Year: I took 6 classes. I received 2 Ds, 5 Cs, 3 Bs, and 2 As. Sophomore year, I took 6 classes first semester and then dropped advanced photography second semester due to an unfair teacher that harassed the male students. I received 4 Bs and 2 Cs first semester and 3 Bs and 2 Cs second semester.</p>

<p>I now switched to a public school where I am taking the IB Program. I currently have 3 As, 2 Bs, and 1 C. I can probably raise one of the Bs to an A and one of the Cs to a B. I received a 205 on my PSAT sophomore year, but I did not feel I did well this year. I was feeling horrible on the day I took it.</p>

<p>My extracurriculars include the following:
Freshman Year: Ultimate Frisbee Club (Every Friday), SADD (Students Against Drunk Driving), The Radical (Math Newspaper), B’nai Tzedek (Jewish Youth Philanthropy Organization with 200 kids.)
Sophomore Year: All of the clubs from Freshman year and I joined a Jewish Youth Organization called BBYO. I am now on the board for my chapter as the treasurer and secretary.
Junior Year: DECA (Business Organization. I am confident I can place top 3 in the state and do well at nationals. I am currently writing a 30 page international business plan), B’nai Tzedek (I am now on board for it and I was elected to the executive board as in charge of publicity), Invisible Children (I go on occassion. Not that involved.), Math Olympiad (I go on occassion. Not that involved.), Tutoring (For free.)
Senior Year: I will hopefully be doing the extracurriculars that I am currently doing along with National Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society. I couldn’t join those this year because my GPA was not a 3.5. :confused: I also plan to try to hold down a job or internship as well.</p>

<p>I have been taking practice SAT tests. I receive on average 750 on Math, 700 on Writing, and 580 on Reading (hate it.)</p>

<p>I really enjoy math and business, along with economics.</p>

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<p>ASU is NOT like other colleges: Barrett places waay more emphasis on test scores than any other school seems to. They apparantley have some formula, where each section of your application (academic record, test scores, essay and extracurricuulars) are given soem weight, and all entered in to see whether it overall meets the addmissions requirement. If you could get a 1500 (out of 1600) on Math and Reading, then you'll probably get into Barrett. They don't care at all about your writing scores, so it may be better to take the ACT (they look at your composite ACT score without the essay), especially if you write a decent application essay. The application essay IS important, but just to prove to them that you can write college-level essays, and are insightful.</p>

<p>If you have some good awards, that'll help, but really, the EC part of it, when the Dean of Barrett came to our school, didn't seem nearly as important as the rest of the application. However, if you've shown improvement in your grades, they look REALLY favourably on that. So, I think you've got a good chance to get into Barrett, and even if you don't it's not the end of the world (if you wanna go to ASU), because ASU is committed to accepting a large portion of their barrett students from within the ASU student body, if you can show you're doing well in your college classes.</p>

<p>Oh, and if you can get good letters of rec, then that should really help you. Barrett says that letters of rec greatly improve the quality of your application, so if you want your ECs to stand out, get someone who knows you well to write you a letter of rec.</p>