Hi, everyone! I decided I wanted to create a little community on here, for anyone, like myself, looking through the Virginia Tech school forum whose dream is to attend Virginia Tech. I wanted to start and, I guess, initiate the thread by introducing myself using a little info about me.
Age: 16 (as of May 10th)
Class: 2018
Home State: Virginia (Specifically NOVA, aka Northern Virginia)
Interests (College Major-wise and Minor-wise): Mechanical Engineering (Specifically Robotics), Computer Science, Programming, Philosophy, Psychology
Ethnicity: African-American (Ghanaian-American) (1st Generation)
I had also wanted to list my other dream colleges that I may make other threads for:
List of My Dream Colleges (From Top to Bottom):
Virginia Tech (VT)
University of Virginia (UVA)
George Mason University (GMU)
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)
James Madison University (JMU)
So now that I’ve kind of introduced myself, I guess I might as well start this thread. This is a community for HOKIE HOPEFULS so feel free to put anything you guys want pertaining to the university. Hope this turns out well!
I’ll start the first post I guess! I’ll describe a little more about myself (school-wise). Feel free to do the same!
My Test Scores:
SAT I (Breakdown Critical Reading-Math): N/A
ACT: N/A
SAT II: N/A
PSAT 2015: 990/1520
Rank: N/A
AP/IB Classes Taken: None
Projected Junior Year Schedule
Engineering Explorations I/Robotics
PLTW (Project Lead The Way) Principles of Engineering (Weighted)
AP Chemistry (Weighted)
U.S. and Virginia History
Functions/Trigonometry (Weighted)
Spanish II
AP English Language and Composition (Weighted)
Projected Senior Year Schedule
PLTW (Project Lead The Way) Engineering Design and Development OR Engineering Analysis and
AP Psychology
Physics or AP Physics I
U.S. and Virginia Government
AP Calculus AB
AP Economics
English 12 or AP English Literature and Composition
Extracurricular Activities (ECs)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Robotics Club
Outdoor Track
Planned ECs for Next Year
Biotechnology Club
Book Club
Environmental Science Club
Forensics Club
Key Club
Robotics Team
TARC (Rocketry) Club
Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer Experience: 4 Years (Summers) Volunteering at the Library
Summer Activities
Taking Health and PE 2 over the summer in summer school (June 27th - August 06th)
Volunteering at my local library at least once a week
Going on college tours to my three top colleges: Virginia Tech, hopefully between June 20th and 24th, UVA, and GMU
Try and find time to study for the SAT/ACT
Do my summer assignments for AP English Language and Composition (which will likely involve reading a book) and AP Chemistry
Try and teach myself the basics of Java (as much as I can do on my own time)
Personal Challenge: READ AT LEAST THREE NOVELS BY THE END OF THE SUMMER! (I'm a pretty avid reader during the summer, so this shouldn't be a problem.)
Go to King's Dominion with my family (likely on my brother's birthday in July)
- Get my driver's license before school starts (with the help of the Health and PE 2 class for the permit test!)
@greenlegobrick Really, what kind of school do you go to? At my school, about at least 40 people go to VT each year. Our school has about 2000 students.
My report card just came in the mail grades were actually better than I had expected
MY GPA IS NOT A 3.71 BUT A 3.77!
I’m literally crying right now! I got 5 As, 1 B+, and 1 B. I thought it was going to be 5 As and 2 Bs. The class I got a B+ in was World History, the class I expected a B in.
Yes @nubielias . I took three honors/advanced classes last year. In fact, my schedule last year was:
Computer Math
Pre-AP English 10
Pre-AP World History 1
Spanish 1
Pre-AP Chemistry
Algebra 2
Health and PE 1
All of the classes marked “Pre-AP” are honors classes, however, we do not receive any extra weight for them. So all of my classes were regular weight (out of 4.0) last year. This year I’m expecting a Weighted GPA between 4.29 and 4.43.
