I know that someone speculating on your chances to get into a university has no impact on your chances of getting into the university. However, I’d love to get a variety of opinions on what the strengths and weaknesses of my resume are. Here is my life’s work haha:
-4.0 GPA unweighted, my school doesn’t weight GPA
-Class rank 1/600ish
-32 ACT
-14 AP classes 12 5s and 2 4s
-3 concurrent enrollment college classes taken
Extra curricular a
-Never counted my service hours, do I need to??
-leader of my LDS church youth group since age 12(we are told in utah not to put that on applications because there are so many mormons here haha, but is it worth including?? It’s been an important leadership opportunity, like one time I was in charge of a church meeting for over 2000 people)
-treasurer of local fbla chapter
-first place in state in FBLA twice(hopefully 3 times:))
-5th place in FBLA nationals
-DECA state finalist
-Student Body President
-we did pretty cool things as SBO’s, like I was in charge of our school Christmas fundraiser that raised nearly $100,000
-Co-President of student body committee
-Co-President of school spirit club
-founder and Co-president of “Investment Club” at my school (we invited professional investors to come teach us every week, went to junior highs and taught junior high business classes about investing)
-member of DECA, sophomore committee, junior committee, senior committee, interact(connected with rotary) club, national junior honors society, national honors society (should I even put these??)
-Eagle Scout in Boy Scouts of America, troop leader for 4 years
-City Youth Council
-member of my city’s celebrations planning committee( had meetings with the city council etc.)
-part of a club that mentored incoming sophomores into our high school
-went to Costa Rica freshman year for a humanitarian/education opportunity
-recipient of 9th grade Award of Excellence, given to the highest achieving boy and girl in 9th grade
-started my own garbage can washing business
-looking to get into some science research at the university of Utah and with Friends of The Great Salt Lake
-hopefully my schools science sterling scholar( award for most achieved in that department)
I can’t really think of anything else.
Is there anything else you guys need to know??
I would love to go to Stanford, what do you guys think??
My concerns about my resume: I’m about as cliche as it gets haha. I’m a white male, I’ve been really lucky to come from a wealthy community, my family has never had financial struggles, student body president, 4.0, decent act score, taken a bunch of AP classes. I feel like my application seems like I am just doing things for the prestige. But like I LIVE for SBO, it’s a huge part of my life, and it just seems like I don’t have that many unique things. But I feel like what is unique about me is that I personally am not unique. I don’t have much natural intelligence, no crazy talents etc. but I have worked my butt off for everything I have. I’ve been independent in everything I do since I can remember. And I feel like my resume doesn’t show the hours and hours and hours I put in every day to be successful. What do y’all think?