seeking financial aid. Applied RD. Here are my stats, sorry if it’s long:
I am applying to be a History, Philosophy, Political Science, or English major. I want to go to law school after undergrad.
I have a 1910 SAT 610, 610, 690, and a 29 ACT.
5.1 weighted GPA, and about A 3.73 unweighted. I’m a white male from Texas.
My school stopped reporting rankings but last year my rank was 68/603 (about top 11%). Rank will not be sent to colleges though.
By the end of the year ill have taken 10 AP classes: Human Geography (4), World History (3), English lang & comp (4), US History (5). my senior courses:
AP German 5, Aquatic Science, AP Gov/AP Microecon, Debate 4 called "Independent Speech Study, Pre ap pre cal, AP Biology, Ap English lit, & AP Psych
I took pre-ap which is basically honors at my school throughout my high school career. (We don’t have “honors” only regular, pre ap and AP)
I think i have strong extracurriculars:
Eagle Scout with some leadership positions in the troop like patrol leader and librarian.
Started my own functioning business through a year long Entrepreneur academy. Got a grant and have sold my product at several events with profit.
My main hook/strongest EC is Debate. I’m the Debate team captain, I went to state, have gotten to finals/semifinals of several tournaments, and was selected by coach to coach the novices. I also wrote my common app essay about this. This year, my team made it to top 32 teams in the world for IPPF debate which is an international competition. We aren’t out yet, it lasts a long time (through the end of the year) and I plan on updating Trinity whenever we win another round and move forward.
I have NHS, German Club (with a leadership position) & German Honor Society, and a few smaller academic awards like AP scholar with honor. I also put my debate awards in the awards section.
I have 100+ volunteer hours. Ive volunteered at a couple republican conventions as a page, and worked a little on the campaign for Abbott. Besides that I did a lot of Eagle project community service and I did a lot of volunteering with my church. Went on a local mission trip 3 years in a row with my church and helped the local community. I’m also involved with Youth Group.
For work, I work about 10 hours a week at State Farm. I helped lead a marketing campaign and I also assist the workers with different things around the office. I also worked at a resturaunt during sophomore and half of junior year.
I did an interview and felt like it went really well. I am also going to visit in January.
One off topic question, I know that it’s 2 hours away but do students ever go to NYC or Boston in the weekends to have fun? Because that sounds fun lol. Just wondering if anyone ever does that or if most stay on campus on the weekends (I know lots of Hartford is dangerous).
Thanks for your time.