GPA: unweighted 3.8
weighted 4.1
SAT: 1420
EC’s:
-Ice hockey (15hrs/week all year 4 years)
-Varsity Inline hockey (5hrs/week all year 2 years)
-Caption on both Inline and ice teams
-Top point scorer in Varsity inline league junior year
-Employed at all times throughout high school (10-15hrs/ week all year)
-Physics club (3 hrs/week grades 11-12)
-Summer engineering class at brown university
-Leadership intern at local science summer camp (40hrs/ week for 2 weeks)
-Volunteer Friday’s at my former Chemistry teacher lab; help clean/ set up for future labs (2hrs/week grades 11-12)
-worked with local college professors on research (50hrs total)
If someone could tell me if Vandy is a waste of my ED that would be great. Thanks guys.
Try to get your SAT score up. ECs look great. I don’t think it’s a waste to ED there. When the time comes, make sure you have someone proofread your application and essays!
@HalfMoon22 about half of my ECs were added junior year. There is a reason for the however. Sophomore chem was the turning point for me. My teacher really changed how I veiled academics as a whole and encouraged me to take a more challenging schedule. Not to say I totally slacked off freshman and sophomore, but I really picked it up junior year. I heard adding stuff junior year looks bad. I was wondering how true this is.
Please dedicate a lot of time to your essays. Especially based on what we can see of your writing, make sure you don’t flunk that one part of your application and give Vandy adcoms reason to deny.
@Bapple you had a job and played hockey all 4 years which is a big time commitment and shows depth rather than quantity. They are going to want to see what you did with your time in terms of your passion, not what you did with it just to add things to your application - which i don’t think will be a problem for you. You could talk about your turning point with chem in your application.