Hey guys! I applied to UM ED and I’m stressing about admissions rn… Anyways, it’s my top choice (ignoring the cost - I’ll try and apply for national scholarships or something… idk.) Btw I’m a jewish 16 yr old girl, 3/4 european 1/4 afro-carribean. Also, I’m a senior and a legacy (but sadly out of state) So here we go~
SAT: 730 ERW / 800 Math (essay: 14/24 eek)
ACT: 34 Composite (essay 8/12 slightly smaller eek)
SAT Subject Tests
Physics: 780
Math 2: 800
GPA: 99.17/100 W cumulative
102.30/100 W junior year
Rank: 11/371
APs
World : 5
Physics 1 : 5
Language and Composition : 5 (take that standardized test essays)
US History : 3 (challenged, didn’t take APUSH)
Physics C Electricity and Magnetism (not taken yet)
Physics C Mechanics (not taken yet)
Calc BC (not taken yet)
Dual Enrollment:
American Military History (Niagara University) (200 level class) : A+ (took instead of APUSH btw)
Public Affairs PAF 101 : currently enrolled
WRT 105 (Syracuse University) : currently enrolled
ETS 101 (Syracuse University) : taking next semester
EC:
Varsity Ice hockey: 3 yrs (tore my ACL junior yr and couldn’t play)
Unified Basketball: 1 yr (junior yr, plan on doing it this year too) [basketball with special education students]
Latin Club: 3 yrs
Student Council: 2 yrs, this year I’m senior class treasurer
Empower: 2 yrs, founding member, treasurer [club dedicated to equality and acceptance, branch of the UN affiliate organization Girl Up]
Danceability: 1 yr [dance classes with children with disabilities, 2h/week]
Tikvah: 1 yr (at summer camp) [partnership program and tutoring jewish teens with disabilities]
Work experience: bookseller at Barnes and Noble (this year, hired a couple months ago)
Awards:
National Merit Commendation
RIT Computing Award 2018 and scholarship (meh scholarship though, just for publicity)
Scholar Athlete
Academic Distinction (all years)
On track for Project Lead The Way Engineering distinction at my school (bc I have taken/am taking 5 PLTW Engineering classes throughout high school)
I’m planning on majoring in either physics or engineering (like biomedical, computer, or maybe nuclear… I’m not sure yet) (or possibly both if I can swing it, 2 BS’s would be awesome!)
Whoa ok that took forever to type.
…congrats if you actually got this far
Thanks for reading!