Hi everyone -
My top school choices are: Yale, Brown, UPenn, Northwestern, Vandy, Kenyon
My kinda-ish choices are: Ohio State, Lehigh, Butler, Emory
I am from Ohio, and I am a white South African-turned American girl (16 years old). I go to a small all girls private school.
First generation (but my bro and sis went to college, my dad was in the army in South Africa).
Upper class.
ACT: 36 (writing 9)
SAT: I don’t know yet
SAT Subj: Haven’t yet taken them
GPA: 3.4 - some circumstances within my family last semester caused me to miss school and my grades suffered; my guidance counselor is going to write about it in her rec so that colleges know I didn’t just stop trying…
This year I’m taking: honors pre-calc, AP chem, English, AP Spanish, AP Euro, choir, glee club
Next year: AP English, honors physics, BC calc, AP psych, AP English, AP Spanish lit, choir, glee club
Extra-curriculars: I am very invested in the arts, so most of it focuses on that - I do professional theatre at Playhouse Square and do vocal performance at Cleveland Institute of Music, and I spend my summers working with Broadway directors and training for the Cirque du Soleil. I teach music to kids with disabilities as well.
I’m on yearbook and write in my schools political magazine, I participate in Model UN, I am part of Green Key (which is like a tour thing at my school), I took part in an exchange program to Israel and continue to do work focusing on Zionism and educating the public, I have an internship at a suicide prevention center, I am the head of social media for a travel agency, and the president of my school’s A Capella club.
I have over 250 service hours from teaching cirque to children over the summers, I have 80 from raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (I raised $50,000 and won Student of the Year). I do a lot of political events and have taken part/led many things surrounding gun control and global warming (the two things I am passionate about) - I also volunteer at my local animal shelter and teach pre-k kids at my sunday school.
I am a National Merit Scholar.
Majors I’m considering: Drama and Environmental Studies
Weaknesses: my GPA, I am no longer highly ranked within my class, and I also feel like I have way less extra curriculars in my pocket than other people at my school do. Also my essay score was not good…
I feel like I am missing something but…