HEY everyone soooo I am currently freaking out due to my unpreparedness towards the whole college thing…
My dream schools include Cornell, UChicago, Harvard and UPenn’s Wharton for undergraduate studies. My parent’s expectations are high as are mine, but my stats may cause me to reconsider everything. I need an outsider’s perspective to help me out…
Half Chinese female living in an area where most kids go to community college or go right into the workforce after high school
Going to be a senior
*** BTW Dad is legacy @ Cornell
ACT -32 (35 E, 34 R, 30 M, 30 S)
GPA: Unweighted 3.7 (school does not calculate weighted GPA however would be around 4.6 through my calculations)
SAT Subject Tests: NOT TAKEN YET (I know, I’m way behind on college stuff) plan to take them asap in October
APs: Already taken - APUSH, APWorld, APBio, APCalcAB, APPysch, APLang - 4s on everything so far
Taking next year - APPhysics, APCalcBC, APLit, APGov, APMacro, APMicro, APArt
13 in total by graduation
Taking most rigorous courses possible at my school
- traveling to nearby school next year to take AP classes not offered at my high school
ECs:
-Student Council class president since freshman year
-On varsity soccer since freshman year
- On regional soccer team ( comprised of girls from 3 states - highest denomination of youth soccer team before Olympic training), 12+ hours every week year-round
- DECA all four years - (3X state winner in my category, qualified and competed at nationals every year), president of DECA at my school
- Piano - played since four years old, won state titles 5 times
- tutor kids who struggle in math
- Math Club
- Chess Club
- FBLA
- National Honor Society
- Political Awareness Club
- Started Mock Trial Club at my school
- made it into county’s selective teen leadership program
- took classes at NY’s film academy over summer
- took classes at UPenn’s law school over summer which I had to be selected for
Volunteer
- 300+ volunteer hours
- recently spent a month teaching orphans English in China
- volunteer at Local Children’s Museum, girl scouts, American Cancer Society
Work:
Subway - during one summer where I worked around 30 hours a week
Toys R Us- during holiday season, after school for around 4 hours a day
Referee - kids soccer over summer, since freshman year
Recommendation letters - already done by teachers who wrote very good letters so I have at least one positive for sure
Sorry I’ve tried to keep this succinct, but oops
Please give me your thoughts. I really appreciate anything!
Also I’ll do my best to chance/give thoughts back!