i applied ed ii (didn’t do ed i mostly because i was late to take standardized tests and the like) and i mean … i’ll find out in two weeks anyway, but oh well.
unusual circumstances (?): i’m currently in a public school, and entered last year (junior year). i spent all prior years in a public cyber charter. i left that school with a 3.97 uw/4.4 w gpa. also, i skipped two grades, so i’m currently fifteen years old and turning sixteen in march.
~ class rank: currently 8 out of 344
~ act: 34 composite in december (also 34 superscored), taken 3 times - june, oct, dec
- 30 math
- 33 reading (got 36 in oct)
- 36 english
- 35 science
- 8 i believe on the writing test. that wasn’t a fun time
… took the sat (got 1390 overall) but didn’t wind up reporting it
~ ap classes, grade taken, scores:
---- art history, sophomore year, 4.
---- english lit and comp, sophomore year, 3.
---- us gov, junior year, 3.
---- calculus bc, junior year, 4/ab subscore, 4.
~ gpa: i honestly have no idea how my current school weighs things, but my report card says 5.51 and i’m guessing it’s on a 6pt scale …??? also, they only took my classes here into consideration, so i’m not sure how my grades coming out of cyber come into play.
~ senior courseload, with grades if completed: ap chemistry, ap computer science (96), spanish 4 (96), ap multivariable calculus*, ap english lang and comp
- considering switching out for ap psychology
~ extracurriculars:
---- varsity speech and debate, junior/senior year
---- jv track and field, junior/senior year
---- mock trial, senior year
---- national religious (assemblies of god) competition, 7th grade onward, i have won several awards for this
---- tech crew, volunteers/sets up for almost all events within my school
---- national honor society, i don’t hold any positions
personal characteristics, i guess: jamaican/taiwanese female from northeastern pennsylvania. i hope to major in neuroscience or computer sci and minor in psychology.
other schools i applied to: williams, amherst, bowdoin, colby, middlebury, wesleyan, wellesley, harvey mudd, scripps, claremont mckenna, lafayette, schreyers honors college (penn state), wustl, northwestern, stanford
i think my writing supplement and recommendations were all pretty good and showed my personality, passions, and voice. i had my spanish teacher, calculus/programming teacher, and ap gov teacher write recs; my spanish teacher has said i’m one of the best students of her career and she was the first teacher who knew me when i entered the school. additionally, my coach for the aforementioned religious competition wrote a letter, as did my teammate from the competition/close friend who currently attends stanford.
i’m mostly worried about my lack of extracurriculars, but i’ve also only really had a year and a half to build them up.
thank you in advance!