My test scores and grades are pretty solid, but I’m just worried about my ECs. My school doesn’t have a lot of clubs or competitions/olympiads, so most the stuff I’ve been involved in are out of school, and I didn’t have a lot of time for that, especially in my junior year with the classes that I was taking. I know my test scores are in the range of top schools, but I just don’t know if I’ve done enough…
ACT: 35
GPA: 3.96 unweighted
AP: 6 so far (Human Geo, Calc BC, Chem, Stats, US Hist, Psych), taking 3 right now (Lit, French, Gov)
SAT II: Math 800, Chem 790
ECs:
Summer research internship at a local university-worked for 8 weeks
Peer tutor- mainly in math, I’m also a TA in the calc class.
English tutor- freshman and sophomore year summers, I went abroad and taught english for about 2 weeks
Student council- we plan school activities (mainly dances) and run service projects for the school/community
Library volunteer- 200 hours, all 4 years
Orchestra- 1st violin, 4 years
Awards… nothing major… probably my weakest area
AP Scholar w Distinction
National Merit Commended
and some small school awards given by teachers
I’m looking at the UCB, UCLA, GA Tech (all OOS), Case Western, WUSTL, Northeast and thinking about applying to Rice ED…
I’m really not sure what schools would be my safeties (there’s really no instate options for me) and i don’t know how to find ‘matches’ and i feel like all the schools I’m looking at are “reaches”… please let me know what you think!