College- Triton College (Community College)
GPA: 3.90
Major: Economics
Unweighted HS GPA: 3.21
APs: None
Honors Classes: 14
Upward Trend in Grades (2 D’s Fr. year, 2 C’s Soph. Year, All A’s and B’s Junior Year, All A’s and 2 B+’s Senior Year)
SAT: 1560/2400 (Old SAT, 2 years ago)
SAT: 1510/1600 (New SAT, taken March 2017)
Extra Curriculars:
Internship at a Law office (Former Judge)
Peer Mentor (Tutoring at my Commun. College)
Manager at my Job (Philly cheesesteak restaurant)
Model United Nations (High School)
School Paper, Staff
Math Club
STEM Club
Chinese Club (High School)
Volunteer Work
Piano
Soccer (High School, 4 years)
Intramural Sports
President’s List
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (For Community Colleges)
First Honors in High School (Highest Honors)
Recommendations: None Yet, I am asking my sociology professor and he always tells me I that I am very smart and that I should pursue multiple career paths. I finished my 50 question plus essay and double checked it, all in 15 minutes to prove I am really smart to him. He should give me a good recommendation. (Telling it how it is…)
Might also ask my ECON Professor for a letter of REC (My Major)
If my application is very competitive or complete trash, let me know! Honesty is the best answer!
If this is anything, I got in with a 1500 on the New SAT. So your score is fine.
Your high school grades are very alarming, especially the multiple C’s and D’s. I’m not sure how much an ‘upward trend’ in grades can hold up for the ones from freshman, sophomore, and junior year. And you graduated with “highest honors” in high school? Why did you only start to have consistent A’s in the senior year? Hopefully you can provide some sort of legitimate reason to them in the special circumstances section.
To be honest, your extracurriculars are kind of all over the place. You’ve literally dabbled in everything. Not always a good thing, in my opinion. None of it relates too well to your major, economics. Maybe try to connect them together somehow because there’s no focus.
Sorry if this wasn’t the type of answer you might’ve been looking for. You are definitely not “complete trash”, and it’s good you’ve managed to get a 3.9 in community college. However, any top tier school will be a reach for you. I don’t want to discourage you from applying to them, but also look into less selective public and state schools for sure. Your essay will also be an opportunity for you to shine! Put a lot of time into it.
nah dude its fine @spicycactus. I was wondering, what if I started an economics club at my school? Do you think that you boost my application’s EC’s, or my application in general alot?
It’s your time and your decision. Something like that wouldn’t make or break your application.
Rather than spending your time randomly starting another club to add to your application, I think you should start organizing your application now. Fill in the Common App. Look into requirements for each school. Spend plenty of time on your essay, and make sure you set yourself apart there. If you haven’t already, look into state schools (safety and match) and start applying to them first.
With my stats, I am confident that I can do better than state schools @spicycactus. I am applying to Georgetown, NYU, Virginia, GWU, Maryland, Cal berkeley, USC, UCLA, and probably a couple more schools.
Those are all very selective schools, so, like I said, make sure you also apply to a few safety schools That can only help you. Good luck on your application process!
I’m assuming you wrote this as a rhetorical question @ClarinetDad16. I am applying to transfer and yes, I expect the, to accept the credits. I am making sure that all of my classes are transferable
