Business Undergrad Chances?

BelleGirl
Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:51:01 +0000

Hey, I originally posted this on the Babson board but I thought I would post it here as well… I’m interested in my chances for Babson College, but after reading this, I’d also like to know if anyone knows of any other great business undergrad schools I have a good chance of getting into… Thanks!

Okay, to start, I remember my combined GPA from 9th and 10th was about a 3.4 UW… My junior year GPA was a 4.0, but I only took Spanish, Physics, and AP English… Now I am about to start my senior year, taking all my classes at the local community college for dual enrollment, and I am also currently in English 4 (with an A)… I will be taking Pre-Calc and another social studies class, as well as a couple extracurriculars… Here are my classes that were honors so far: Geometry, Algebra II, Biology, Chemistry, and AP Language and Comp.

My extracurricular activities included acting in the school plays in 9th and 10th grades, horse back riding, playing violin, and in 9th grade I ran a clothing drive for the two campuses of my school for foster children around my county. Junior year I was taking my classes online and I turned into a lump, so I want to be really active senior year in extracurriculars so that I can (hopefully) apply EA to Babson… I’m going to get involved in riding, violin, and drama again this fall at the very least.

Last December I took the SATs and I got a 660 in reading, 660 math, and 650 in writing… at the time I hadn’t been enrolled in a math class so I am going to re-take the SATs soon and (I’m sure) do much better… Ummm, just to sum in case people don’t want to do the math themselves, that’s a 1970 out of 2400 and a 1320 out of 1600 in the old scale…

I don’t know, this doesn’t seem like a very impressive application to me… What do you think, could I get in EA to Babson? If not, please tell me EVERYTHING I could do to improve… Thanks, all your advice is greatly appreciated!

Edited to add: Oh, this is really random, but I’m a girl… Heh, hopefully you could tell that from my username… Anyway, is that an advantage when applying to Babson? Does it have any effect at all, like being a minority?