I know admission season is long past and everything is out of my hands now, but sitting around anxiously wondering how I’ll spend the next 4 years of my life is hardly what I would call an enjoyable past time, so I figured I might as well find out what others think about my chances of getting into my dream school.
GPA: 3.634 UW with 4 completed AP courses - really competitive high school, 20th percentile (unreported)
Senior Year: 3 APs. Straight A’s first semester (not included in GPA above).
SAT: 2130 (680 reading, 720 math, 730 writing) - first and only try
APs:
US History - 4
Language and Composition - 5
European History - 4
Computer Science A - 4
Literature and Language - TBD
Statistic - TBD
US Gov and Politics - TBD
Course:
4 years Math - through Calculus, plus Statistics
4 years Science - through Physics
Language - 3 years Spanish, one of which was a college course. Also Computer Science because whatever people tell you it is definitely a language.
Arts - 2 semesters of Photography
4 years English
4 years history
2 years Sales and Marketing
Essays: I feel pretty confident about them. In my main common app essay I wrote about how finding a passion in business helped shape my philosophical views. In the optional essay I took a more satirical approach and wrote about my attempt to write about deconstructing the college essay by writing a palindromic political treatise. Classy.
Recommendations: One from the President of my district’s education association, one from my business teacher/DECA advisor, and one from my Pastor with a business degree.
Extracurriculars - Primarily DECA. Competed in various competitions and qualified for state. Also a leader of the SBE (School Based Enterprise) at my school. Helped volunteer at various DECA and MDA events.
Played piano at Treble Cleft Music Academy for 10 years.
Lead a small group of Jr. High and High School guys at my church, for about 4 years now. Other church volunteering within the audio-visual realm.
Other: National Merit Scholarship Commended Student
AP Scholar with Honor
I’m from Washington State, but used to live in Virginia if that changes anything.
Huge thanks to anyone who took the time to read this.
Oh right, I intend to major in business or finance