I think I crossed the last school off my list today and have a finalized list. I’m meeting with my counselor this upcoming week so I will see what she says but I just wanted to post on here an get your opinions first, also I would appreciate if someone would tell me which schools they think are safeties/matches/reaches for me because my school’s Naviance does not have many data points for the schools I’m looking at so it’s hard to judge.
List:
Vanderbilt (ED)
Northeastern (EA)
University of Miami (EA)
UNC-Chapel Hill (EA)
University of Richmond
The College of New Jersey
University of Pennsylvania
Northwestern
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Rochester
Rutgers (will depend on EA results/merit money from there)
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): didn’t take
ACT (breakdown): 34 C, (32E 36M 33R 35S), 35 if you superstore
SAT HBKJGX: Physics: 610, Chemistry 720, US History 710, Math II 740
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
Weighted GPA: 4.61
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 15/200 (top 10%)
AP (place score in parenthesis): Physics 1 (3), Chemistry (4), APUSH (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Biology, AP Calc AB, AP Lang, AP Government, AP Statistics, Honors Spanish 5
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Presumptive National Merit Commended
Bronze award for service sophomore year, gold junior year
Subjective:
Extracurriculars:
Volleyball 4 years (freshmen, jv, two years varsity, captain as a senior)
Softball 4 years (freshmen, jv, two years varsity hope to be named captain)
Key Club 4 years (most amount of points/volunteer hours recorded as a junior)
Harvard Model Congress 2 years
Student-Principal Advisory Committee 2 years
National Honor Society (2 years)
Club Volleyball (3 years)
Travel Softball (4 years)
PGC Leader (very competitive peer leader program for juniors and seniors only in my hs) (2 years)
Job experience:
I babysit a lot, at least once a week during the school year, and for a few weeks during the summer I babysit for a family for 4 hours everyday.
I umpired for little league softball this past spring
Volunteer:
Have been volunteering in the pediatric wing at a local hospital 2 times a month since last summer
Volunteered throughout this past winter and during the spring when I didn’t have softball after school twice a week for an hour each day tutoring ESL children at a local elementary school, I also tutored a freshmen boy during my study halls every week
In the summer I volunteer for 12 hours a week for three weeks at the same elementary school helping ESL and special needs kids
In the spring I volunteer for a few hours each Saturday morning helping kindergarten girls learn how to play softball, also helped coach a team and give pitching lessons this past spring
Various other activities throughout the year, such as special olympics bowling events through Key Club
Summer Activities: Volunteering at the
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
8, about shortcomings of ESL education and my experience with one of the kids I helped
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
(Predicted)
Teacher Rec #1: 9, Junior English teacher, started off the year not doing so well, but I worked very hard and spent a lot of time in extra help with her, though I still was only able to end with a B+
Teacher Rec #2 8, Biology teacher junior year, most involved in the class, asked a ton of questions, really loved the class and I think she saw that, excelled overall int he class
Counselor Rec: 8, she’s a bit crazy and we’ve had some issues because she always thought i was taking too hard of classes, but I’ve been able to prove her wrong and I think she respects my hard work
Additional Recommendation: none
Interview: hopefully
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Child Development/Nursing/Biomedical Engineering (depends on which school, I have a lot of different interests, would be happy in any of these majors)
State (if domestic applicant): NJ
School Type: small-medium sized public (roughly 850 total) but in a very wealthy, upper middle class area
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 100-115,000 but
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
Thanks!