Chance me for Emory:
GPA: 3.9 UW 4.02 W
SAT I: 1570 (800 math, 770 English, 19 essay)
SAT II: Math II: 790, History: 790
Ranking: My school is very small and does not rank
Course load: I have taken/taking 4 out of 5 AP’s my school offers. Taken every honors course offered
AP Scores: APUSH 5, AP BIO 5
Senior year course load: APCALC BC, APUS GOV, Honors physics, contemporary literature, spanish V, psychology.
Demographics:
-White
-Male
-from Connecticut
EC’s:
-Co-captain and co-founder of my school’s robotics team (2014-present) (competes in NY/NJ botball every year. Came 1st in consolation rounds last year)
-Volunteer with the Coral Restoration Foundation. About 60 hrs and am currently creating a fundraiser with them in my community to raise several thousand dollars to repair hurricane damage
-National Honor Society President (my school just got NHS this year)
-Three-week service trip to Belize in 2017 to help reduce population of lionfish species
-“Master Scuba Diver” and “Rescue Diver”. Almost 90 dives and a ton of training
-Student Ambassador (2014-present). Guided potential students and reviewed them for admissions department
-Singer in a county-wide music competition. won an award for three years of perfect scores
-Performed as Tin Man in production of “The Wiz” (10th grade)
-Class Representative (9th grade)
Work experience:
-Summer job as an assistant to the Director of Operations at a mid-size Brewery in Connecticut. Met with equipment vendors to obtain pricing and specs for equipment in for a new brewing facility. (2017)
-Summer intern at with my high school’s tech department. (2014, 2016).
Sports:
Cant play sports because of severe leg injury. My commonapp essay addresses this (in a good way).
Awards:
-National Merit Semifinalist
-National Honor Society
-Bronze Presidential Volunteer Service Award
9/10 commonapp essay, 10/10 emory supplement 1 and 8.5/10 emory supplement 2
Teacher rec 1: 8/10
Teacher rec 2: 10/10
Other: Visited campus this year. My step-aunt went there, but she is not heavily involved.
"9/10 commonapp essay, 10/10 emory supplement 1 and 8.5/10 emory supplement 2
Teacher rec 1: 8/10
Teacher rec 2: 10/10
Other: Visited campus this year. My step-aunt went there, but she is not heavily involved."
*Step aunt doesn’t count as legacy, visiting does not help as demonstrated interest is not accounted for. No point in ranking your supplements, recs, and essays. Who knows what the adcoms will think of them?
Statistically you are great (I think, depends on if others actually went to Emory and how they did at your school since there is no ranking. Also depends on if school is known for rigor. I would assume/hope that since only 5 classes are AP and I guess it does not do IB, the non-AP courses must be a good curriculum) and your ECs are solid. Due to the volume of RD being so high, we cannot tell, because stats are not enough to get someone in. But I’ll just go based upon those and say a reach or high match as I think others would. You are certainly qualified but these things are quite hard to predict and I honestly do not recommend doing chance me threads for RD at any high volume selective school (admit rate below 30% and SAT average above 1350). It may not be much use.
@hhootle
Your test scores and GPA are a positive for admissions.
Your interest in “green” issues - e.g. your interest in the proliferation of the lionfish species - fits right into the interests of students and academic departments at both the Emory College campus and the Oxford College campus.
A couple of years ago, an Oxford College student produced a film about his adventures in hunting lionfish, which won a prize at an international film festival:
http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/12/er_oxford_student_film_award/campus.html
“A trip to Honduras during high school introduced Preston Buchanan, now a first-year student at Emory’s Oxford College, to an environmental problem plaguing the region — and inspired him to create a film that recently earned international honors.”
One question that may have been answered in your counselor’s letter is why you didn’t take the AP versions of physics, English, Spanish, psychology. Presumably your school doesn’t offer them?
@BiffBrown
Yea, my school only offers 5 AP’s. I took 4 out of 5, and the only one I didn’t take was AP Lang. I took every honors course offered though, including English and physics honors courses. I am pretty sure the school profile that is sent makes note of this.