I’m currently a junior and interested to applying to a liberal arts college with a good economics program. I’m curious where I can get into because I don’t have a clue right now.
So anyways, here are the statistics:
GPA: 3.8-3.9 Unweighted, 4.0-4.1 Weighted
SAT I: 1500; SAT ii’s: 750s on 2
Cycling Team (7 hrs/week/every week of the year)
Speech and Debate Team (5 hrs/week/35 weeks)
Around 500 hours of community service, helping day workers and using Spanish skills to translate what they’re saying (I’m not from Mexico though)
Advanced Percussion (3 hrs/week/every week of the year)
Started an organization (internationally recognized) which helps needy children in my homeland of India. The organization’s helped ~50-100 needy kids with college scholarships. Currently, the organization is moving to also provide clothing, medicine, general funds for disadvantaged youth. Started the non-profit organization by myself. It takes up about 20-25 hours/week and occassional trips to the country since there’s about 10 part-time employees in the organization - This is pretty much my biggest EC and ‘hook’ for the colleges, in my opinion.
Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
<p>These are just to get you pointed in an direction...also, the few universities on the list above are on the small side as universities go. Remember to pick a few Reach/Match/Safety schools, and you'll be fine. Again, this is just my 2 cents. Hope this helps. Good luck. :)</p>
<p>Also, if you have a strong first choice, ED/SCEA will help you much. EA a bit less so. My stats are similar to yours, and I applied ED to Amherst (32% ED acceptance rate) rather than RD (18% acceptance rate). You have many options, Just keep up the good work. It never is too early to start thinking about how you are going to answer the main essay question for the Common Application.</p>
<p>Definitely look into Claremont McKenna College (excellent econ program, especially for a school of its size). Your resume looks pretty typical for CMCers. Admissions have been pretty tough lately, though, so keep your grades up. <a href="http://www.mckenna.edu%5B/url%5D">www.mckenna.edu</a></p>
<p>You can try to apply to any of the top LACs and be very competitive. ED would help, but, unless you have a clear first choice, don't do it (since you'll probably get in and it will be binding). I would add Swarthmore to the list -- it's a great school with a lot of "social awareness".</p>
<p>Really? Because I was expecting to have no chance at all, considering what I've heard about Wesleyan's admissions. I'm probably going to apply ED to Wesleyan - so does this change my chances or does ED not matter? (Sorry if that question sounds rather dumb; I'm new to college admissions and such)</p>
<p>Wesleyan U does give you a bump when you apply ED or ED II. </p>
<p>Since you are in the top 25%ile of SAT scorers and have a good gpa, as well as some interesting ECs, as long as your recs and grades very good you have a good chance at the college.</p>
<p>I'm not sure what school your "dd" went to, but mine ranks in the top 50 in the country, so I'm guessing the admin will take that into consideration for the somewhat low GPA.</p>
<p>Edit: Also for a correction, GPA unweighted will be around 3.86, and weighted will be 4.2</p>
<p>What's more important than your GPA is your general class rank, I think. Some schools have grade inflation where even a 3.9 is merely good. You have to put it into context since every high school varies.</p>
<p>My rank is between top 5% to 9% out of 372 students. The average GPA at our school is around 3.2 (low GPA due to challenging courses - even the regular ones).</p>