| My acceptances
Where: UMD College Park, Virginia Tech
Stats:
GPA: 3.24 UW, 3.7W
SAT: 1890 (590 Verbal, 670 Math 630 Writing)
Rigor of Classes: Moderate-High (5 APs, Most Honor Classes)
Extracurriculars: Computer Club - Webmaster
Rugby - 1 year
Other things:
Tutored at a Saturday School
Worked two jobs to support my family
Results: First deffered, but with help from CC, I wrote up a letter explaining my circumstances (below), and thus got accepted!
Point I'm trying to make: College Adcoms are human, they understand that things come up. In my case, I was homeless for a summer, and then bounced around houses until we finally rented a (rather ex*****ve) townhouse. My Parents work a combined total of 3 jobs, but still barely make enough to pay bills. My grades were affected:
9th: Kept getting 3.4 and higher
10th - 11th (the bad summer/years): 2.85s
12th: 3.71 (with 3 AP classes along with Calculus).
So I'm no top student, or anything, but I kept going no matter what happened (I could easily have dropped out in 10th-11th). That was the topic of my essay/letter, and it proved to help me out in the end. |