| Considering you're finnishing up your junior year now, this post is definetely still legit.
-I wouldn't include poetry online.
-I wouldn't include the Talent search for JHU unless you scored really high on them or won something.
-No Duke talent search, esp since it's from before you were even in high school.
-The poem from 2001 is also kinda useless (pre-hs)
-They can tell from your GPA that you're on the honor roll. It doesn't mean much unless you're on the high honor roll (95 gpa and above)
you do NOT need that many letters of recommendation. Honestly, all the college admissions reps I've spoken to don't want any more than three -EVER. Some ask for one and won't accept a second, some ask for two but think there's "something wrong" if you send three.
Honestly, no one cares what you did before 9th grade. That's why only your high school transcript is sent. The only exceptions are like saving someone's life or finding the cure for a deadly disease. Which isn't really very likely or you would have mentioned it.
I suggest you try hard for at least a 2200... that B average isn't good for places like Harvard. Try some other top 100 schools. Howard is a given safety but you need more matches. You have quite a few reaches.
For your essays, I'd take that negative eating disorder and make it positive. How you learned from the experience, how you're now more mature and a better person because of it, etc.
Good luck and let us know where you end up! |