I decided to document my college app story, perhaps more for myself than anything else.
Here are my stats:
GPA: 3.85/4.0
top 20% of very competitive class (this is obviously the weak point of my app)
ACT: 36
SAT: 2240
will graduate with 10 aps (macro, us govt, english lang (5), spanish lang (5), human geo (5), physics 1 (3), world history (5),english lit, chem, calc ab)
prospective biochemistry and/or business major, pre-med track
ECs:
-theatre: thespian with honors and leadership positions in several plays (such as student director, stage manager, makeup designer, etc), acting and tech positions in other plays
-copy edited school magazine
-academic decathlon team member
-part of an international affairs honors program within my school, will write a senior thesis this semester on maternal health care for impoverished women
-am on a planning committee to organize a current events conference , and lead a sub committee of eight
-have had leadership positions in other community events such as cultural festival, fundraiser for religious tolerance
-am in a leadership class at my school for people with outstanding leadership skills/experience
-did a summer program on health sciences
-took summer writing class at a local top 20 university
-some DECA stuff that i might not even list on my app
~200 hours of volunteer work
rec 1 is from a social studies teacher who has had me for three years and tells everyone that i’m her favorite
rec 2 is from an english/humanities teacher who i’ve had for two years who i have a pretty good relationship with (she has been helping me with my thesis and has worked with me for some of the community events i’ve been a part of)
half my essays were done in one sitting and the other half have literally been in the works since march of this year (so they vary in quality)
awards/honors:
academic excellence
nhs member
national spanish exam gold award
ap scholar with distinction
best english language student award
schools i have already applied to:
Purdue (rolling/priority)
UT Austin (priority)
Tulane (early action)
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (priority)
Baylor (early action)
schools i will be applying to
rice (ED)
uchicago (Early action)
emory, both oxford and emory colleges (applying under the priority scholarship deadline)
cornell (RD)
WUSTL (RD)
UVA ?? (if i do apply, it’ll be early action)
possibly brown and USC, depending on if i get burnt out from all my other apps
i’m planning on submitting rice by mid october and then emory, u chicago and possibly UVA before the end of the month
stay tuned for updates !
thank you!
