Be a Lamb

Chance Me / Match Me
1

Hey thanks, I know there’s a lot of these around here…

White Wisconsinite female

GPA: 5.030 / 4.0 weighted
Rank: 1 / 433
ACT: 35
SAT: N/A

Freshman year:
A - English 9
A - English 10
A - Spanish 3
A - Algebra 2
A - HTML
A - Acc. Biology
A - Chemistry
A - Physics
A - Modern World History

Sophomore year:
A - AP Human Geography
A - English 11
A - English 102 (UW system)
A - Spanish electives
A - Precalculus
A - AP Chemistry
A - AP Physics 1
A - Intro to Psychology

Junior year:
A - English 12
A - Spanish electives
A - AP Calculus AB
B - AP US History
A - Economics
A - Yoga
A - Applied Survey of Biochemistry (UW system)
A - Philosophy of Religion (UW system)
A - Politics of Crime and Punishment (UW system)

Senior year:
A - Online personalized fitness
A - Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (UW system)
A - Calculus 2 (UW system)
A - Russian 1 (UW system)
A - Italian 1 (UW system)
A - Astronomy (UW system)
Spring semester

  • Interemdiate Programming (UW system)
  • Calculus 3 (UW system)
  • Russian 2 (UW system)
  • Intro to Comp Architecture & Adv Programming (UW system)

Volunteer:

  • science museum internship (4 months)
  • holiday international folk fair (2 weekends)
  • ski resort assistant (2 winters)
  • water ski city instructor (3 summers)
  • student council (6 months)

Athletics:

  • all conference / all state alpine ski racer (Varsity Captain)
  • Junior Olympics x 3, 2012 medalist for alpine ski racing
  • competitive water ski show skiing, 10 years, annually nationally & regionally ranked
  • cheerleading 1 year

Activities:

  • Founder of Science National Honor Society chapter at high school (President)
  • Spanish Club (President)
  • Gifted & Talented education advocate
  • Odyssey of the Mind

Work:

  • 2013 papa murhpey’s sign dancer
  • 2015 starbucks barista
  • 2012 - 2016 graphic designer at Leading Point Marketing
  • 2016 summer Kohl’s associate
  • 2015 - 2017 summer seasonal invasive species control manager / lake cleanup crew
  • 2016 - 2017 startup real-estate search engine Rent College Pads intern

Research:

  • 4 levels of parallel universes, Max Tegmark as subject

Essays:

  • CommonApp 3.9 / 5
  • Specific school statements 4.4 / 5

Michigan State: Accepted, full-ride (the whole enchilada + study abroad)
Uni of Dallas & some others: Accepted, full-tuition
Miami @ Ohio, Alabama: Accepted, awaiting offer
UW-Madison: Accepted
Carnegie Mellon: ?
Colgate: ?
Stanford: ?
Duke: ?
Boston College: ?
Harvard: ?
Notre Dame: ?
Purdue: ?

2

It’s odd that you didn’t hear from Alabama about scholarships. They send them out very quickly, did you fill out the scholarship app before December 15? If you did, you would get full tuition covered. You should get into Purdue and Colgate. The rest will be tossups for the most part.

3

I’d say you have very, very good chances at all of the schools you listed. Harvard and Stanford are obviously hard to get into for everyone, but you’re an extremely competitive applicant and should have odds higher than normal there. Your extracurriculars aren’t the greatest, but you have enough college-level coursework that I doubt it’ll hinder you that much.

4

Interesting that with the exception of maybe Colgate (club), you didn’t apply to schools where you could continue your skiing, one of your stronger ECs?

5

Thank you for reviewing my applicant profile. Yesterday I received my admission to Purdue - no scholarships yet. There aren’t many serious skiing opportunities out there worthwhile because at 16 you really need to choose between college and training with the way USSA/FIS leagues are set up. I chose college. Sure, there’s still collegiate skiing; Harvard and Boston college hold teams, as do Duke and Michigan State. There is ample room to continue this E.C., just not in the way I am used to.