Intended Major: International Relations
Schools I am Applying To:
-Boston University (early decision)
-Northeastern University (early action)
-American University
-University of Tennessee Knoxville (safety)
Possibly These if I Don’t Get Into BU ED right away:
-Tulane
-NYU
-Case Western Reserve
-University of Southern California
Race: White
Gender: Female
School: On the bigger side, it’s a really good school ranked in the top 50 of NJ
Financial Stuff: I am very very lucky and basically financial aid is not a concern
UW GPA: 3.66
W GPA: 3.82 (Just for reference this is the average accepted weighted GPA for kids at my high school who got into Boston U and Northeastern)
SAT: Not submitting it but I got a 1280… funny how much better you can do on one test versus the other!
ACT: 30, super score 31
Reading: 34 1st time, 32 2nd
English: 33, 31
Math: 25 1st time, 27
Science: 29, 30
Courseload (no IBs at my school):
I’ve taken mostly honors and AP classes with the exception of my math classes and my senior year courseload is AP Lit, AP Environmental Science, AP Psych, AP Human Geo, and AP Gov
Last year I took 3 APs and my results on the test were:
AP Lang (4)
AP Gov (5)
AP Photo (5)
Activities:
-Written two books that are published on a website/app and they’ve gotten over 170k reads combined and were both ranked in the top 100 of their genre worldwide (like a million books or something)
-Thespian Honor Society (9-continuing)
-Lots of plays and musicals, played a lead last year and I have a leadership position in helping out the underclassmen and being like a role model this year that is like being a team captain for theatre (idk how else to describe it) (9-continuing)
-I joined a new program in my county where we are working on making the high schools more welcoming to diversity and helping some of the students in our county who can’t speak English (they immigrated from Latin American countries in the last five years) and aren’t treated equally and with respect in our community
-Photo Club (11 and 12)
-Church Youth Choir (10-11 was discontinued in 11th grade)
(I’m also in these but you can only be inducted at the end of our junior year at my school just so you know:
-NHS
-English Honor Society
Volunteer Stuff:
-Student director for my middle school’s musicals (11 and I’m going to again this year)
-Was on the planning committee for an Ultimate Frisbee Tournament where all funds went to a school/home for boys who struggle with various issues such as mental health and family issues (11)
I think my Common App essay is pretty strong, I would give it an 8/10, it talks about my love of photography but my intro is really interesting, it is me chasing after an eagle trying to get a picture of it lol
Teacher Recs:
9th grade English teacher: 10/10, she is the director for the musicals at my school and I have known her since I was in 7th grade, and she said it was easy to write my rec because “there are so many wonderful things about you” (her words not mine lol) so I think it was probably very strong
11th grade English teacher: 8/10, she apparently used very specific examples and is known to write great letters–I love her!!
Counselor: 7/10, she wrote about all of my family issues and explained that for me so it is probably less about who I am as a person and more my family issues
Hooks (? I don’t really want to call it this but): Family issues, witnessed a traumatic event involving family
Thank you so much for reading all of this, any opinions would be great!!
sorry!