Schools: Duke (ED), Cornell, NYU-Stern, Northwestern, Rice, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, WashU, UT Austin-Plan II, UC Berkeley
-Asian male attending competitive 4-year public school in Florida (school’s like 40% asian lmfao)
-Applying for political science/history (exception NYU): law school’s the way to go
-hooks-first generation college student…thats about it
GPA: UW-3.95 W-5.75 (top 6.7%)
SAT: 1 time-2370 (770 reading)
Math II-800 Biology M-780 E-770 World History-710 (didn’t submit world history)
AP’s: WHAP (5) APUSH (5) Biology (4) Chem (4) Environmental Science (4) English Language/Composition (4)
I got 3’s on calc ab, psych, physics 1 (gg not submitting)
ECs
Student Council (District Officer, Student Body Exec Board Advisor, 2 time delegate to state convention): lead a food drive that raised 5500 cans, raised $1500 through selling shirts, planned/led leadership summit with 400+ attendees, clothing drives, teacher appreciation projects, started tutoring program for school, organize mass volunteer events
Debate (Co-captain/Workshop Instructor): 2 time state qualifier in Public Forum Debate-ranked top 35 last year, PF Regional Champion, attended Stanford National Institute for Forensics during summer, many local tournament awards
Mayor’s Student Advisory Board (Chairsman): recognized before city council, led student-mayor discussions, mock decorums
Tennis:Varsity for 3 years,UIL district champion in doubles, PCA Scholarship Finalist, USTA Championship ranking, many local tournament awards
Job Related Club: (President/Founder), donated over 200 books/500 cards to local hospital/send weekly volunteers, held arts and crafts seminar for young patients
Service
Head Intern for State Representative’s Mayoral Campaign-160 hours; train volunteers, blockwalk/canvass, participated in LGBTQ caucus, data entry, phoning/email station
City’s Finance Department-70 hours; file receipts, data entry on excel, draft typing
City Library-50 hours; arts and crafts for children, shelve books, assist patrons
Summer Math Camp TA-50 hours, assisted teacher in helping kids with work
Biology Tutor-50 hours: through student council tutoring program
-Paid work: local restaurant
Awards
PSAT Semifinalist, AP Scholar With Distinction, District Academic Excellence, George Eastman Young Leaders Award, UVa Jefferson’s Scholar Nominee, WashU Danforth Scholars Nomination, PCA Scholarship Finalist, USTA Championship Level Certification, NSDA Special Distinction Award, Recognition of Outstanding Service Award from Student Council State Board, SNHS, NHS, local awards for debate/tennis
Essays+Recs
I consider myself a pretty strong writer. My common app essay was really unique and unexpected according to my counselor. Supplements are solid as well.
Rec Letters-One from english teacher, one from world history: both should be solid: additional rec from Mayor
I would be careful with listing your ECs if I were you. It seems as though you have a lot on your plate and it won’t bode well when schools are trying to evaluate how committed you actually were to each EC.
First off, how did you get a 5.75? I thought the Highest one could get weighted was a 5.33
Most of those schools don’t EA anymore which is a shame. They only ED
Your grades are stellar. I say just send your 3’s. If you don’t send them, it looks like you got a 2 or 1 on them. WH 710 ain’t bad. Might as well send it if your spending 25 bucks on sending your scores. They say to shorten your list, but I say simplify don’t short. There’s 5 slots for honors and 10 slots of activities on common app.
All those schools are highly competitive. They’re reaches but they’re manageable reaches. Even the best students have those schools as reaches. You’ll definitely get into one of those schools.
My tip: Grab a safety school just in case. You don’t want to get screwed over by fate
haha i have some safeties–just didn’t post them. Different schools/districts have different UW systems–mine’s out of a 6.0 scale. Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it–leave a link if you want me to chance:)
Berkeley’s local and a lot of kids from my school get in with stats like yours. i definitely think you have a great shot at berkeley! i would agree with you on not sending in your 3’s but world history with a 710 isnt too bad - you might as well. pretty good chances with rice and vanderbilt too; don’t know too much about the others…
Your GPA weighted is freaking Insane!!! My school does it on a 6 scale too and the valedictorian has a 5.01 and she has only gotten 1 B. You seem to have everything a college would want and beyond. Honestly, the competition is tough and many universities have certain quotas. But, you are well over qualified for all the schools on your list. I wish you the best of luck
Your profile looks good. I agree you should streamline your ECs as listing so many can look at best uncommitted and worst, embellished. You have enough there too show commitment if you display it correctly! Good luck!
Ps: do you suppose all 2500 Duke ED apps are posting on CC? >:D<
How is listing all those EC’s a bad thing for him? He has 10 but none of them look like he barely put in effort. Just asking for the sake of knowledge!
