I’m trying to decide on which school to apply to ED 2. I’m testing out my chances at different schools. If anyone could help, that would be much appreciated!
Here are the schools I’m applying to:
Bowdoin (ME)
Swarthmore (PA)-> I was nominated in the DiscoSwat program so they reached out to me and waived my app fee.
Kenyon (OH)
Reed (OR)
Trinity College (CT)
Wesleyan (CT)
Colgate (NY)
Vassar (NY)
Hamilton (NY)
Clark (MA)
College of the Holy Cross (MA)
Brown (RI)
Cornell (NY)
Bates (ME)
About me:
-Female
-White/Middle Eastern
-Trilingual
-My personal statement is about my feelings towards Kim Kardashian (since we’re both half-Armenian) and comparing her efforts to help the Armenian community to my own (which I mention in my activities below).
Stats:
-I’m an International Baccalaureate student.
-Unweighted GPA: 3.75 (I don’t know weighted, it would be on the IB scale).
-I take 4 HLs: English A, History, Visual Arts, and French A. (the norm is 3 HLs but I thought I’d challenge myself w/ 4).
-I take 3 SLs: Math Studies, Environmental Systems and Societies, and Theory of Knowledge.
-My school has no rank, but compared to other students I’m among the top, if not the top.
-My latest report card was straight As (with three A minuses).
-SAT total: 1410 (new SAT)
-Reading: 720, Math: 690
-French w/ Listening Subject Test: 700
-French Reading Subject Test: 730
Awards:
-Best speaker at a Northeastern MUN Conference.
-Honorable delegate at an MUN Conference at a local high school.
-1st place debate team (the team was myself and one other person) in a regional debate tournament.
-1st place in a Babson College “Sharkbowl” (entrepreneurial program contest).
-1st place in Marlboro Beautiful Minds Challenge (this is an International contest).
Activities/ECs:
-Founder of a not-for-profit organization where I sell Middle Eastern foods to (I’m half Armenian) and send all the money to an organization in Armenia that helps Syrian-Armenian refugees resettle in Armenia. I went to Armenia this past summer and filmed a documentary about refugees that I met through the organization I donate to (I included a clip from this documentary in my porfolio to these schools).
-Armenian school every Saturday since I was 3 years old. (I can speak fluently and read and write, it was also my first language).
-Played piano since 2nd grade; my most accomplished pieces that I played at recitals are Traumerei, Gymnopedie, and Mystic Flute.
-I have participated in Model UN since 7th grade; was a chair for two years at my school; was the Secretary General at my school’s MUN conference last year.
-I participated in a service group this summer in Armenia for a month; we did community service and lots of volunteering.
-I’m the captain and founder of my school’s girl’s varsity basketball team.
-I founded a Haunted House at my school two years ago.
-I’ve been a volunteer at my local farm a couple times as an assistant at the Farm Stand and as an assistant for a Youth Program.
-I participated in the Babson Entrepreneurial Program at my school for a semester, which I later won 1st place for in the annual Sharkbowl competition.
-I founded a philosophy club at my school that meets every week.
Portfolio to schools:
-Clip of my documentary about Syrian-Armenian refugees.
-Photographs I took in Armenia (I love photography).
-An IB Written Assignment I wrote this year about Durrenmatt’s play “The Visit” and got the best grade in the class.
Thank you so much if you read through all this!! I really appreciate any responses.