<p>SATs: 700V, 750 M, 700W
SAT II: 700 World History, 750 US History, 770 Math II, 720 French w/listening, 780 Literature
GPA: 4.0UW, 4.38W
AP/IB: full-IB, plus 3 APs</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
-School Newspaper (9-12): Editor-in-Chief (11-12), Lifestyles Editor (10), Assistant News Editor (9); won multiple awards individually and as a paper from CSPA, NSPA and VHSL; articles published in local newspaper
-Cappies Reviewer (10-12): reviews of local school plays published in the Washington Post
-Debate Team (10-12): President (12), VP (11), Regional Qualifier (11), District Qualifier (10-11)
-Young Democrats (10-12): President (12), VP (11)
-MUN (10-12): Committee Chair (11-12), Regional Qualifier (11), District Qualifier (10-11)
-NHS (10-12): VP (12), Secretary (11)
-SSHS (11-12): President (12)
-SCA (9-12): President (12), VP (11), 2nd VP (10), 3rd VP (9)
-UVA Summer Enrichment Program
-Columbia Summer Journalism Workshop
-Princeton Summer Journalism Conference
-United States Senate Page
-Au pair in Quebec
-Volunteer for Democratic Party of Virginia (10-12)
-Scorekeeper of Freshman, JV and Varsity Girls Basketball Teams (9-12)
-Youth Basketball Coach (10-12)
-Metropolitan Area Grant Committee (11-12)</p>
<p>Very strong candidate, especially with the most recent push for UR to increase the percentage of VA students. If you are a VA resident and your family income is less than $40,000 and you are accepted, UR will grant a full scholarship.</p>
<p>Being a US Senate Page will really help to distinguish you. If you were a Page during your junior year, how were you able to continue all of your activities? Make sure that your page experience stands out among your accomplishments and make sure it doesn't sound like you are exaggerating the time spend on all of your activites. Bag the scorekeeper entry, it doesn't add anything and it starts to look like you couldn't have possibly done those things with any degree of depth. I am not being critical - I just think it is important to group your accomplishments and not put every little good deed down on the paper. When you are interviewed, I think it helps if you have something to add that the committee will not have seen on your application.</p>
<p>All I know is that, if you don't get in, I'm Screwed</p>
<p>Very competitive. You should definitely apply for the Richmond scholarship (full tuition!) because I think you have a very good chance of becoming a Richmond scholar (if not Oldham).</p>
<p>Yeah, I have a similiar question to worknprogres. If you were a senate page during the school year, how were you able to continue all your activities? If you report on the application you were VP your Junior year, and you were in Washington, that will look suspicious and like fluff. If you were a summer page, then it's a different story, even though summer pages have a slightly worse reputation, because it's for the "connected".</p>
<p>I wouldn't let you in IVY Bound because clearly you are a safety candidate, if I were deciding admisisions, I'd never let you in because I know you wouldn't enroll in the school.</p>
<p>But that's just my two cents.</p>
<p>You will be offered a 1/2-full tuition scholarship. You should turn this offer down or use it to leverage with other schools that you'd actually like to attend.</p>
<p>Please don't listen to URdefect although she seems to now think she is an admissions counselor. You look like a strong candidate to me and I do think you should apply. Especially explain any particular activities that you have taken a good amount of time to get involved. Personalize your application to help it stand out. So take the time in writing your essay, keep an academically challenging schedule your senior year and get good grades.</p>
<p>As for scholarships it is a competitive process so again ignore URDefect. To see the list of all the options to see if you are interested the website is:
<a href="http://admissions.richmond.edu/financial/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://admissions.richmond.edu/financial/index.html</a></p>
<p>There is need based financial aid and merit based aid such as scholarships. Over 2/3 of the student receive aid of some form to get here and there are 50 full ride scholarships for each class which works out to be 1 in 15 students receive full tuition. As for financial aid, University of Richmond was ranked as one of top 25 Kiplinger’s best value. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>As I'm sure you know, your chances at admission are quite good. I would advise a few things:</p>
<p>First, definitely make sure to submit your application materials in time to be eligible for the scholarships. As I recall, it's not too much extra work, but you just need to be a little on top of your stuff. Trust me, it's majorly worth it--being a Richmond scholar is an amazing opportunity -- or as far as I could tell from the pamphlets: most of tuition covered, priority housing and class registration, money for extra individual projects, etc. Also, if you're even nominated for the scholarship, you get admitted early (then you know you've gotten in somewhere, which is a nice feeling) and they pay for you to come down to the college, where they proceed to woo you with free food and programs. It's a good deal.</p>
<p>If you space out and don't submit your stuff in time to be considered for a scholarship, make sure to visit the college and put your name down in their "visitor guestbook," or whatever. It's silly to think that Richmond would assume you're looking there as a safety; you could well love it, no matter how high your stats are. But definitely make your interest known, or they might not be wrong to think you're looking at them as a safety. (Again, if you submit your stuff in time for the Richmond scholars, they'll definitely know you're interested.)</p>