So, disclaimer, I did make a chance me thread a few weeks back before I really knew what schools I wanted, however, now I have my EA/ED schools all figured out after some research. I will be applying ED to Columbia and EA to UMich, Georgia Tech (In-State), and UGA (In-State). In my mind, Columbia is my reach with GT and UMich as my targets and UGA as my safety, so I just wanted to know if those are realistic for me. Here are my stats and stuff:
Race: White
Major: Physics or maybe Psychology (still haven’t figured this one out)
GPA: 3.91 UW/4.29W/4.57W under the UC scale. For some reason, my school doesn’t care about honors classes, so my weighted GPA seems little low-ish as 4.29, but under the UC GPA scale, it’s 4.57 weighted.
ACT: 34 composite (36S, 33R, 33M, 34E)
SAT: 1480 (Math: 750, English/Reading: 730). I’ll be using my ACT score instead because it’s better, so I guess this doesn’t matter too much.
SAT Subject Tests: I will be taking Lit, Math 2, and Chemistry this October, so TBD for now.
Class Rank: 17/603. This is Top 3% at a fairly competitive school.
AP Tests:
AP Human: 5
AP World: 4
AP Calc AB: 4
AP Calc BC: 3
AP Psychology: 4
AP Chem: 3
AP Lang: 5
AP US History: 4
Senior Schedule: AP Lit, AP Statistics, AP Gov, AP Physics 1, and AP Macroeconomics
Extracurriculars:
- President and Founder of Political Discourse Club (12th)
- DECA member and state competitor (9th-12th)
- BETA member (11th and 12th)
- NHS member (12th)
- National English Honors Society President (pending right now due to boring and complicated reasons)
- Interned at a business (don’t want to disclose name) for two summers between my 9th and 10th and 10th and 11th grade summers. I worked for about 120 hours total and worked mainly on electrical installation and wiring and general house stuff. Basically, I helped build houses and did the least liability work. Technically, I got the internship because it’s my grandfather’s business, but he has a different last name than I do. Nepotism? Maybe. (Most definitely), but colleges don’t have to know that.
- Tutoring and Mentorship (10th-12th) for two kids I know. Mainly helped them with Algebra, Geometry, and Pre-Calc but also science like Biology and Chemistry. I’ve sunk at least 150 hours in with them over the past 2 1/2 years, and I didn’t get paid as they are neighbors/family friends. Idk if this counts as volunteering or not, probably not, but I’m putting it on my app anyway because I spent too much time not to.
- Youth Group Leader for VBS at my church (9th and 10th)
- Mock Trial Competitor (12th)
- Track and Field (10th and 12th due to injury 11th-grade year) I am pretty trash not gonna lie, but I did letter and compete in a few meets. I hope colleges don’t take an in-depth look at my times at meets because I was middle of the pack at best (400m - 56 PR, 800m 2:17 PR, 1600m 5:28 PR). Still, I was an “athlete”.
- One of my short stories got published in a local literary magazine (11th). Idk if that counts, though.
- Work at Publix about 20-25 hours a week (12th).