ok hi im a middle class (like actual middle class i get good financial aid) white boy at a medium competitive public school in south florida
stats:
1480 SAT: 750 reading, 730 math
(im taking it again in December which ive checked its in time for my RD’s and hopefully I can get my math up but I might not)
GPA: unweighted 3.95/4,
5.25/4.0 weighted but our district is weird so i dont think that means anything
class rank: 17/360 (top 5%)
AP’s: Psych (5), Human Geo (5), World History (5), APUSH(5), Lit (3), Calc BC (2 :neutral: )
Classes: IB Diploma program so junior and senior year are just all IB classes, taking: HL Math, HL English Lit, HL History of Americas, SL Chemistry, SL Biology, SL Spanish
EXTRACURRICULARS:
Model UN (all 4 years; is vice president)
Part time job as a server at local family owned restaurant; was an essential worker over spring and summer but I just do 15 hours a week during school
Math Team (4 years; no leadership but was on a couple different teams that I listed)
Make a Wish (Soph-Junior); Club Officer - we planned fundraisers for local wish kids
Newspaper (senior year); news writer - i write articles for our paper
IB Ambassadors (soph - junior); basically just student government for IB program)
4 year class member of student government; no elected role
1 year w/ no major accomplishments in: Science Olympiad, Mock Trial, Mu Alpha Theta Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, Book Club, STEM@ Work
REC LETTERS: 1 from 2 year bio teacher and I did good in her class, the other from my 2 year math teacher in which I failed her AP exam junior year but have gotten A’s in her class this year and demonstrated significant academic improvement, this one hopefully is pretty good as she likes me a lot and watched me go through it in the spring and sees that I’m currently winning; also a basic counselor recommendation but she likes me
ESSAYS: tbh my common app personal essay is high key quirky but really good, its a metaphor for being outed as gay but its not a big “haha let me in im gay” essay because I talked about it through a completely separate experience that actually happened and the gay part is like one line; im a good writer so my supplementals should be good
INTENDED MAJOR: environmental science/ natural resource sciences, probably a minor in polysci if that’s relevant for admissions
COLLEGES:
Big Reaches: Duke, Yale, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Rice, Dartmouth, Colby College, Bowdoin College, Amherst (vanderbilt is my top pick if that matters; im retaking the SAT literally for them)
More “realistic” Reaches: Northeastern, Georgia Tech, Emory, Tufts, Vassar, Washington&Lee, Reed
Actual Target schools: University of Georgia, University of Florida, University of Vermont
Safeties: UCF, FSU, USF
***********also if you guys have other schools to suggest that are strong in science/research opportunities but also give out NEED based aid; i really like the midwest public schools like Purdue and UIUC and Wisconsin but I get really good need based aid at private schools that offer it so i dont really know if there are any out of state public schools I can afford, but if you know something please lmk!
******also i know and understand that college admissions are random and that chance me’s are usually not accurate but i need someone to tell me something because i don’t think my EC’s are good enough to get me in anywhere unless i get a perfect SAT, i think I can break 1500 with a superscore but i probably wont do much better than a 1500-1520 if i can reach that