GPA: 3.9 UW/ 4.3 W
Class Rank: top 5%
SAT: 2010 ACT: 29
Retaking ACT hoping for a 32, and SAT for a 2100
Academic Excellence: Fall 2014, 2015, 2016
National Honor Society: Fall 2015-Present (Secretary)
Published in school literary magazine
Rotary Youth Leadership Award 26 (Summer 2016)
Golden Ambassador (2016-Present)
300+ hours of community service with Green Cord
Media Director of Key Club
Hospice Volunteer
I have a part-time job
What are your hooks? (If any)
I’m not sure what’s considered a good hook, besides me being an African American…
I’m Muslim and gay, but is that special lol
I’ve spent my whole life caring after my tetraplegic mom
My dad died from cancer
I overcame my clinical depression
that’s all I’ve got
You poor thing
Craft a beautiful essay and you stand a great chance.
You have been through so much and have overcome so much. You have an amazing story to share
thanks for the help!
Just my advice, but its generally not a good idea to talk about mental illnesses to college, even if you overcame them. AdComs feel that there is always that risk that you might relapse.
More than anything, emphasize your responsibilities and how they shaped your character. They are looking for people with character, in addition to being an overachiever. We already have enough overachievers without character ahem Wall Street ahem Capitol Hillahem.
Your grades and ECs seem strong but I would raise your standardized test scores. If you choose to written essay about all of your life struggles to be careful not to emphasize too much you depression but rather how you overcame it and how you live your life in the present day because as ElloLove mentioned, they might worry you could relapse and potentially drop out or something. Good Luck!