•UW GPA: 88.0/3.3
•W GPA: 93.3/3.7
ACT: 29
Extra: Captain of the tennis team; four years, second singles for two years and first doubles for one. Spring Track: 3 years & Winter track: 2 years, Vice Pres. of the National Art Honors Society; in it for 3 years. (We run lots of charity fundraisers) Animal Rights and Recycling Club: 1 year. Photography club one year also.
AP Scores: Art, 5
Literature, 2.
I have done some other charities too.
I’m thinking about majoring in English and possibly minoring in some sort of art study, or maybe education.
Colleges I’m applying to: Binghamton, University at Buffalo, Stony Brook, Baruch, Sienna, Saint John’s, Geneseo, New Paltz, Adelphi, CUNY Hunter, Queens, City College of New York, and Albany. Feedback would be much appreciated, thank you.
Made it to counties for three years in spring track, but that probably doesn’t mean anything.
Bing- reach, Siena match, Geneseo- reach (I have a D there!) Albany safety, you may be ok at New Paltz but I know its gotten harder to get in through the years! I am assuming your from NY. Were those your only AP classes? Are you taking any this year?
Yes those were my only Aps in junior year, and altogether in the previous years. I took honors italian in junior year also, and honors english freshman year and in tenth. I’m going to be a senior and I’m going to take AP Language, C-L economics, C-L Sociology, and C-L Psychology.
Ahh…for weighted I meant 92.3…whoops.
@starliffy I think you definitely have a shot at getting into Adelphi! Your weighted GPA and ACT score are pretty good and you’ve also done a lot of extra curriculars. If you’re interested in maybe becoming an english teacher, I’d take a look at the STEP program Adelphi has. It’s basically a 5 year program in which you’d get your bachelors and masters degree. It’s pretty popular since you’d get both degrees in 5 years, rather than the typical 4 for bachelors and 2 for masters (6 altogether).
If you’re in NY and want to be a teacher, you should look at the 5 year program at SUNY Plattsburgh. The 5 year program is excellent; my D graduated from it. Your stats are good and you might even get money. The program works like this - you take a couple of education classes the first semester and then apply for the program. It’s based on your grades. Once you get in, you are in. Your 8th semester is your first graduate semester, so you pay undergrad tuition for part of your masters. In the last year, you student teach. You can student teach up there, in Westchester or in NYC. My D taught in NYC and lived at home that semester. She then got a job very easily. However, after one year of teaching, she decided that she wanted to travel and do her gap years while she still has health insurance on mommy. Depending on what you want to teach, you take a concentration. My D got her masters in special ed and her concentration is in music; she isn’t qualified to teach music, but she never wanted to be.