ED chance me Swarthmore

yes I know these are pretty subjective bc its just stores and not essays + letters of recs, but anyway…

Personal:
white female, first generation college student, low/middle class,

Scores:
(my school doesn’t rank but possibly top 15-10% not sure)
GPA w: 4.22 uw: 3.8
SAT: 1470, 750 reading/writing, 720 math
SAT subject: bio- 710, us history- 740
APs: gov (5), psych (5), lang (5), apush (5), bio (5), ab calc (4)
also IB econ and i got a 5 out of 7 possible points (4 is passing)

all core classes have been either honors or ap, other than precalculus. my school weights gpa w/ regular/honors being 4.0 and ap/ib being 5.0 for A’s

Senior year courses:

ib environmental science
AP stat
AP lit
Dual enrolled Geospatial tools and techniques
asl 3
ceramics

Extracurriculars:

since august 2017, working 10 hrs a week in retail
Yoga exchange program: 2 hour shifts at front desk in exchange for free classes
volunteer at animal shelter 2hr a month to clean cages + feed cats
summer 2016: volunteer at a summer camp for a month
summer 2018: (possible) internship at an environmental action group in my city
I also regularly petsit for a couple neighbors and have since 6th grade

Awards:
Student of the semester in AP biology
Student of the semester in Precalculus

Prospective major is either neuroscience or biology, but probably neuroscience

also should i apply for discover swarthmore??

I think the discoswat deadline is either imminent or past. You should definitely apply if there is still time.

You sound like a strong candidate. Keep strong in your senior year classes and have a little fun with the essay.

If you ended up applying for DiscoSwat, I created a thread for this year’s applicants if you wanna check it out! :smiley: