<p>I'm not really sure about this whole college application thing.
I am a white, female, junior about to be a senior at a public TX school.
What should I do over the summer and next year to improve my chances of getting into a good college?</p>
<p>*top 10%
*3.75 GPA (on 4.0 scale)---Will probably raise to a 3.8 this sem.
*APs: 1 soph, 2 junior, 6 senior (have taken every Pre-AP and AP opportunity)
*3 yrs spanish
*TAKS commended
*AP tests: 3 on AP World History, took AP Eng. Lang. and APUSH this year, taking AP Psych, AP Calc. AB, AP Eng. Lit., AP Biology, and AP Gov. next year
*Taking SAT and ACT next month.
*National Honor Society (2 yrs)
*Spanish Club (2 yrs)
*Key Club (3 yrs)
*Choir officer (1 yr)
*Choir member in HS (4 yrs)
*Texas Girls Choir w/ leadership postition each yr (6 yrs)
*Choir Section Leader (2 yrs)
*HOSA (1 yr)
*Church Youth Group
*Church choir 6 yrs
*Volunteer at church
*High ranking and awards in solo&ensemble and all-state
*Will volunteer at hospital starting this summer.</p>
<p>I'm probably forgetting some things.</p>
<p>I want to major premed and my reach schools are Dartmouth, NYU, and Columbia. I'm not really sure which other schools I will apply to, but I really want to get out of TX haha. Please give some input. Thanks! :)</p>
<p>For the summer I would recommend just continue working on some of the activities you have done for over 3-4 years so you can show dedication cause starting something new at this point would be worth less. If you really want to go to Columbia, Darth, or NYU, maybe apply ED/EA for one of them. Good luck</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. I'm going to continue my choral ECs as well as starting dance to help with show choir stuff. The reason I am going to volunteer at the hospital is to see if premed is really the major i want to pursue. I wanted to be a vocal performance major until last year and now that is pretty much the last thing I want to do. Medicine fascinates me, but I want to be sure that it is the right decision. (I also forgot to add that I was in the National Catholic Youth Choir 1 yr.)</p>
<p>anyway, i think everything looks great, what year are you in? Dartmouth was/is/will be my top school, but i am already a 2time reject with them... :(.
But it's pretty clear what they want... Great Rec, Great Score(this is a MUST, something i didn't have), GREAT GPA (3.9-4.0), Class rank of top (1%, 10% if you are talented) and Great essay(i had nice essays, but my other stats weren't strong...)
best of luck</p>