Bio:
-Citizenship: US Citizen
-State of residence: Virginia
-Class: 2018
-Race: Caucasian
-Gender: Male
School:
-Type (Public/private & size): Private boarding school (250 kids total, 60ish in my grade)
-Graduates (How many go to Ivy’s): Usually one/two per year go to an ivy, most smart kids go to UVA/UNC (depending on state residency usually)
-AP’s Offered: 17 (AP cap per year 0-1-3-none)
Academic Profile:
-Unweighted GPA: 92.9 (we use unweighted scale out of 100, not the 4.0 scale)
-Weighted GPA: n/a
-AP’s: 10
-Honor’s: 7
-ACT: n/a
-SAT: 1450
-SAT II: n/a
-Rank: school does not report class rank
-Course Rigor: have taken the absolute hardest schedule possible for my school, focused towards math/science
EC (In order of importance/commitment):
Honor Committee (group of 7 seniors elected by school)
Counselor Body (group of 20 seniors elected by school)
Student Council (group of 4 per grade elected by class)
Mayor’s Youth Council (group of 25 from town of Lynchburg meet with mayor regularly)
Swim Team (All conference swimmer, state qualifier)
Alpha Order (nominated for admissions help–> tours/host to prospective students)
Varsity football
Varsity golf
Investing club
Other Notables (College courses you’ve taken, papers published, created own website, Taking a class, etc):
Africa mission trip to Kenya/Uganda with my school for a month this past summer
Honors:
Analysis Award
Statistics Award
Work:
Summer camp counselor at a sleep away camp (7 weeks per summer)
Schools I’m looking at:
UNC Chapel Hill (by far my no. 1 choice)
Cornell (mostly throwing this in to see if I have a shot at an ivy)
Wake Forest
UVA
Richmond
William and Mary
Virginia Tech
***The list is more or less in order of preference
Intended Major: Undecided (business or medicine related)
Intended Minor: ^^^
Please leave any thoughts/suggestions below, Thanks!
***I will be applying EA to all that accept it, ED to any school is unlikely
I think you would get into Tech William and Mary and Richmond. But the other schools are tougher to get into. In state I would say Virginia is a coin flip for you. UNC out of state is extremely difficult though. Good luck
If you are able to get your SAT score up to a 1500 (which you have plenty of time to do), your chances at most of your schools are very strong. Your course rigor, based on what you’ve said, is incredible and even more so with a 93 UW GPA – that said, it would be very helpful to know how you compare to your classmates. Your EC’s are pretty strong too as you have plenty of varsity sports and leadership, though you don’t seem to show much passion for any particular area (sciences, writing, etc.).
Right now, I’d say you have a good shot for all of your schools, with Cornell being the only reach (as it is for everyone). Virginia Tech is a safety, UNC a high match, and the rest matches.
If you have the time, please chance me back on one of my posts. Regardless, I wish you the best. You are a competitive applicant for just about any school, so don’t be afraid to expand your list beyond Virginia.
A bit difficult to evaluate your GPA on that scale, but you have strong SATs and if you could get them up a bit you would be in a very good position. I think you are in a pretty good position for UVA and William and Mary. I don’t see Wake or Richmond as better than those schools unless the aid package is good. Virginia Tech should be a safety and you should probably add another. I’d suggest expanding your applications to some good private schools as you may get some good aid offers from them. Your counselor could probably provide some suggestions.
Meant to add that I have a pretty close tie to Wake, my dad went there so its a school I’ve grown up around! As for Richmond vs William and Mary I would choose W&M, my rankings aren’t perfect. Do you know of any other good south eastern colleges I could apply to, the NC/VA region is my area I’d like to go to (close to home) but I’m open to anything! Thanks!
If you are focused on NC/VA, Washington and Lee and Davidson are both excellent schools. And of course, there is Duke, in NC, which would be more selective than Cornell. Looking a little further, there is Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Emory, Vanderbilt, etc., all quite selective. You may want to look at some less selective privates to see if they might give you a better package.