Hey! Notre Dame is my absolute top choice. If you could chance me that would be great.
ACT: 34 composite
SAT II: 760 US history, 740 Literature
AP: Language and Composition (4), US history (5)
GPA: 4.63 weighted on scale of 5.
APs taken: US history (11), Language and composition (11), Literature and Composition (12), Political Science (12),Statistics (12), Environmental Science (12)
Class rank: my school doesn’t rank
Extracurriculars:
-Summer Scholars over the summer at Notre Dame. I was in the political science track.
-Georgetown Pre College: I took a course there for 5 weeks one summer
-Summer@Brown: philosophy course for three weeks
-Varsity Cross Country: 4 years, elected senior captain
-Varsity Track and Field: 3 years
-School literary magazine: 2 years
-Speech Team: 2 years
-Debate Team: 4 years
-Part of a board which raises money and volunteers at a local hospital: 3 years
-On a youth board which organizes events and volunteers at a facility for the mentally disabled in Chicago: 2 years
-On school’s peer helping board which helped organize the blood drive etc.: 1 year
-Worked at a Clinical Research Facility one summer
Leadership:
-Elected a senior captain of the 200 girl xc team and then raised over $12,000 for a breast cancer organization
-chosen by English teacher to be a tutor in the school reading and writing center
-Chosen by school administration to be a bridge builder which is a selective leadership position
Recommendations:
-Counselor: generic, huge school (7-8)
-Teacher: junior year English teacher who LOVED me (10)
Essays:
-Common App: I actually like it a lot (9-10)
-why ND?: generic (7-8)
-supplements: emphasized service and leadership (8-9)
School and hooks:
-From a suburb of Chicago
-high school ranked 14th in the country
-150,000+
-white, Catholic
Hooks: Dad and two cousins went there.
I really am worried about my chances of getting in. Could anyone please chance me? Thank you so much.