Chance me! And what else can I do to get in?

tylerss
Sat, 25 Jul 2015 05:39:37 +0000

I just started considering applying to Notre Dame and I’m honestly falling in love! I’ve been looking at colleges because of prestige or stats but for Notre Dame I’m falling in love with the culture… I’m already an upcoming senior and I want to know what else I could possibly do with my limited time to get in!

Here are my stats
Stats:
I am an asian female
Class Rank: 1/450
SAT: 2130 (720M/690CR/720W) *I took this on a whim so HOPEFULLY I can increase my score after I actually study haha!
SAT II: N/A
GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.8 weighted (it’s capped at 4.8 at my school)
APs: Lang (5), US History (5), Macro (5), Micro (5), Physics (did not take test), World History (4) - senior year: taking AP Calc AB, Gov, Psych, Bio, and Lit
Possibly Relevant (non-AP) Coursework: PLTW Engineering Program at my school

Extracurriculars:

Founded/President of a Fine Arts Club (3 years) that focuses on fundraising for art programs in local middle schools, advocating for the arts in school (big part of my life)

Key Club (4 years) Vice President, District Graphics Department, Regional Technologies Editor, Leadership Team - Distinguished Award for work at a regional level (?) Mentored different school clubs that reached Distinguished status (Key Club is a big part of my life too haha)

Senior Editor for Yearbook and publications (1 year) (My work allowed me to skip to senior editor)

Historian for Choreography Club (4 years)

Film Makers club (4 years)

Painted a mural for my middle school, hopefully I will be doing a mural for my high school too later this year

Worked at a medical office for 2 years

LOTS of volunteering through Key Club, my local elementary school, and at the library during the summer

A community outreach internship for a website this fall

I like to make themes for blogs, taught myself html and stuff and my themes have thousands of downloads idk if that is interesting for an EC

Awards:
nothing too big

AIA Design Finalist (not a big thing, local architectural competition)

Distinguished regional awards for Key Club

AP Scholar

National Merit Commended Scholar

A few video/art scholarship contests nothing too crazy

I really want to get in. I don’t know what I even want to study/be yet but I know Notre Dame is the kind of environment I want to be in to figure that out! Besides studying for the SAT

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