I feel like my application is good but my Senior Year grades could ruin it all, once colleges see my semester grades or even request my first quarter grades.
UMich LSA (Early action)–Undecided
Out of State, but born in MI
Asian, Male
(ALSO Applied to UIUC, Penn State, Pitt) (Undecided)
GPA:
3.89 unweighted (9th-11th)
15 Honors classes, 5 APs
HOWEVER took 4 AP Classes 12th grade and currently have >>>2 Cs, 3 Bs, 2 As (3.0 GPA?)<<<
SATs:
2200 Old SAT (680 Reading, 760 Math, 780 Writing)
1470 New SAT (680 Reading, 790 Math)
750 Math II, 670 Physics
Letters of Rec:
I don’t know what my teachers wrote but I suspect they were positive, but generic.
ECs:
-Boy Scouts- Eagle Scout
-Eagle Project to educate community about storm drain pollution and applied hundreds of “no dumping” signs to drains in township
-Order of the Arrow (BSA)
-JV Tennis
-Orchestra member
-Robotics Club Member- Team went to Worlds Competition
-Took Carnegie Mellon summer courses- Computer Science
-Many service hours including:
House construction in the city
Service mission in Nicaragua (planting trees to provide jobs, leading a feeding program)
-Physics club member
Essay:
I wrote about my interests in environmental science and computer science. Told the story of my Eagle project, creating vegetable gardens, taking the CMU compsci classes, boy scouts camping trips, why I want to help the environment.