Indulge me please.
Stats:
GPA- 97.045 W (3.7217)
Rank- ~top 13%
School-- uber competitive public school
Classes- I’ve taken honors/AP/ dual credit classes all 4 years. All of them A’s except for a B in AP Physics 1
Test scores:
Act: 30
MATH: 27 SCIENCE: 28 READING:36 LANGUAGE: 28
Sat: 1300 R/W-700 M- 600
Subject test
English lit: 650 world history: 720 Us history: 720
AP- World history(4), Us history(5), European history(5), English Lang(4), environmental science(3), physics 1 (1).
Currently taking- AP Microeconomics, AP Government, AP psychology, AP Biology, AP English lit, World Affairs Honors and Pre-calculus Honors/Dual Credit (senior year GPA is 3.9)
EC
Newspaper- Editor for two years (news sophomore year and entertainment junior year) . Currently the editor in chief.
Creative writing club/ school book club- member since sophomore year
Online magazine- started out as a staff writer for affinity magazine, currently an editor. It’s a prominent online mag, we’ve been featured in vice, huffpo and teen vogue.
Also involved in the usual things such as National honor society and science NHS.
Volunteer
Starting the summer before my freshman year I volunteered at a Somali youth service center. I was a teen leader, teaching kids the basics of reading and writing Arabic. Holding lectures arranging activities and other fun stuff. Did this for two years. I only stopped because it shut down due to lack of funding :(.
Starting my sophomore year till now I tutor kids and adults in English. They are Somali refugees/immigrants. With the adults mainly helping with conversational English and the kids it’s supplemental tutoring to help understand classwork. Since I live in Texas most esl programmes focus on Spanish there are no real options for students who can’t speak English or Spanish.
Honors-
Columbia scholastic press association silver crown 2015 (national)
CSPA crown finalist 2016 national
Interscholastic League Press Conference bronze medal 2016 (state)
Texas Association Journalism Educators best in show- 1st place 2015 (state)
TAJE best in show 3rd place 2016 (state)
(All newspaper awards) ^^
Non news ones
Had a couple poems published in anthologies and placed at regional competition
AP Scholar with Distinction
Deans List
Essays: (1-10)
Common app- 9.5
This is the best essay I’ve ever written, had multiple people read it, including my English teacher who loved it. It was about how my love for reading bleeds it’s way into my academic life and the ideas I get from reading feeds my curiosity.
Roommate: 7
It was definitely the most me essay. Talked about how my reading obsession would affect them. My competitive nature and how it caused me to read 210 books in one year.
Experience: 9
Talked about my curious nature, obsession with googling anything new along with subtle Harry potter reference.
Meaningful- 7
Literature and language.
Rec:
Apush teacher- she loved me, bonded over mutual love for Hamilton. Pretty sure it was great
English Lang teacher- pretty sure it was good. Only had her for a year but she was best friends with my freshman English teacher and she loved me, so all good things I hope.
Counselor- at a school of 3000 with 7 counselors, it’s honestly probably kind of generic. After she had written she said I was one of the most accomplished kids she knew…maybe that’ll help.
Hooks-
First generation
Urm- african american
I know my test scores aren’t the best but I did my best (took both tests 3 times each). I think I did a good job with making sure my entire ap is cohesive (love for literature and history going along with my English major goal)
Other schools-
UT Austin, Columbia, Harvard, Bowdoin, Swarthmore, U Oregon (safety) , UW Seattle, UTSA(safety), u Chicago, Boston College, UPENN, UVA and a few others.
And now I turn to you. My test scores aren’t the best but what do y’all think?
