Demographics:
White male, currently living in VA. I am homeschooled, so I don’t know if that will play favorably or not here.
I am thinking about possibly EDing to Vandy but idk if it would increase my chances by much.
Test scores/grades:
SAT: 1460 (690R/W, 770M) with a 16 on the essay
ACT: 30 composite (probably won’t submit since the SAT correlates to a high ACT score) with an 8 on the essay.
GPA: currently have a 3.97 unweighted GPA and a 4.23 weighted GPA (unfortunately haven’t been able to have lots of AP classes due to being homeschooled).
I also have a total of 14 college credits atm due to being dual enrolled and will have 21 by the end of this upcoming semester.
College classes taken: General Chem 1 w/ lab (A), World Civ 1 (A), General Psychology (A), and Precalc (A)
College classes taking this year: General College Physics 1, Applied Calc 1
ECs:
Varsity debate/speech (10,11,12) 8hr/week 40week/year
Church youth group (9,10,11,12) 2hr/week 52week/year
Tutor for math and chemistry. I tutored college, high school, middle school, and elementary kids (10,11,12) 3hr/week 36week/year
Geography camp helper (9,10,11,12) 30hr/week 1 week/yr
AWANA (basically just a church-related group that meets outside the church) (10,11,12) 2hr/week 30week/year
Library internship (10) Haven’t calculated the hours/weeks but basically I helped lead a book club for 3rd-5th grades during the summer
Youth medical mentorship: (9,10,11) (had to stop due to moving) 2hr/week 9week/year
General community service: probably around 200hrs or so.
Family responsibility: taking care of the family dog (thought I should add this since it is my responsibility and takes time) 52 week/yr and about 3 hours total a week
Honors:
8th place in the state of NC for team policy debate (11th-grade year; my family is military so I just moved the summer before senior year)
Qualifying mark for nationals for team policy debate (11th)
12th place in the state of NC for Cold Reading speech event (11th)
Best speaker in team policy debate (4x)
First place in science fair: based on my experiment investigating the effects silver nanoparticles have on E. coli (9th)
Recs:
Soooo I’m homeschooled so technically my “counselor” one is just coming from my mom which probably won’t be considered
Teacher recs: I know one teacher that I will be asking for a letter and she knows me super well and she loves me so it will be really good; haven’t decided on the second teacher
Optional rec: having the lady that hired me to tutor her kids for math write one for me. I helped raise her son’s D in geometry to an A by the end of the year.
Also, another optional rec will be coming from my debate coach who absolutely loved me and knew me very well.
Any feedback is greatly appreciated!!!