To EA or not to EA...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>ED isn't in the question because as an indecisive rising senior, I can't bear the idea of being committed to only one school, even if it's my top choice.</p>

<p>GPA: 88.99 (My Freshman grades (about 84) bring my entire GPA down. Since then, all my grades are 94+ My final junior year grade was a 97.6)
SAT: 2170 (CR 800 Math 700 W 670)
SAT II: 750 BioM 590 Lit (Re-taking in October)
Class Rank: No idea. To put that in scale, there's about 1000 kids in my graduating class. So needless to say, my school is highly competitive.</p>

<p>Junior Course Load:
AP: Biology, English Composition, US History
Honors: English 9
AP Scores: 4 Bio, 5 Eng, 5 US History
Will take by graduation: AP Government, AP Calc AB</p>

<p>ExtraCurriculars:
Volunteered: LGBT Foundation - ~35 hours
After-School Tutoring Center directed towards impoverished students - ~150+ hours
Food Mission - ~50 hours
School Newspaper - first year contributor but in reality, our school newspaper is a joke.</p>

<p>Leadership:
Policy Debate - 3 Years of competitive travel, Captain</p>

<p>I am not in Beta, NHS, or any academic-achievement type club or group</p>

<p>Internship:
6 weeks at the Mayor's office (summer after junior year)</p>

<p>Race:Filipino and White. Not sure to put down "Other" or "Pacific Islander" or "White"
Gender: Female
Location: Northeast</p>

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<p>The tricky thing is that I don't have a set prospective school yet. I just want to know whether or not you think that I should raise my GPA first (my school sends out our senior year fall semester grades to colleges) versus the intellectual growth already being evident and that EA is a good idea for me.</p>

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<p>… bump</p>

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<p>Around here, a lot of schools only consider your GPA for 9th and 10th grade, so senior grades don’t matter (unless of course you fail or something). I think you should see whether the schools that you are applying to consider senior year grades. If not, then you may as well apply EA since it’s generally easier to get in.</p>

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<p>Sorry, I meant that they only consider your GPA for 10th and 11th.</p>

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<p>For some reason, my school sends out our senior year grades to help boost our GPA. I’d consider myself to be a fairly eloquent writer but the biggest blemish on my application is always going to be my GPA… That’s why I’m not sure about whether or not I should apply EA</p>

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<p>This question totally depends on the school in question…some schools are ridiculously competitive in RD if they have an EA round; others, it would be beneficial to wait for the higher GPA…</p>

<p>schools in question?</p>

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<p>it’s a liberal arts mess. I’m looking into Wellesley, NYU, American, UMIch, Umass Amherst, Villanova, BU, BC, IU, bennington, etc</p>