Demographics
US resident in Georgia
Public high school
Middle class
Not first generation
Intended Major(s)
Biology
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
Unweighted HS GPA: 3.97/4
Weighted HS GPA/UGA Recalculated GPA: 4.03/4
Class Rank: School doesn’t rank
ACT/SAT: 1440 (690R/750M), never took the ACT
List your HS coursework
- English: 10th Grade Lit H, AP Lang,
- Math: Geometry H, Algebra II H, AP Statistics
- Science: Biology, Chemistry H, AP Physics 1
- History and social studies: American Government, World History H, Personal Finance & Economics
- Language other than English: Spanish 2 H, Spanish 3 H, Spanish 4 H
- Other academic courses: Human Anatomy, Essentials of Healthcare, Intro to Healthcare Science, Intro to Law/Public Safety, Allied Health & Medicine
Total rigor of coursework:
8 Honors
3 APs
10 Dual Enrollments
**College Coursework (Most of the rigor in my coursework especially from Junior and Senior year comes from DE at GSU)
College Psychology, College US History, College English Comp I, College Comparative Religions, College English Comp II, College Spanish 1, College Spanish 2, College Political Science, College World History, College Precalculus
Awards
UGA Certificate of Merit (Awarded to the top 10% of juniors in the state of Georgia, awarded last year)
Medical Administrative Assistant Certification (CMAA)
Order of the Arrow Nominee
CPR Certification
Extracurriculars
Eagle Scout and Bronze Eagle Palm
Held leadership position in Troop for over 2+ years
Attended National Youth Leadership Training
HOSA Member for 2 years
Summer job as an Assistant Teacher at Church Preschool for their summer camp for 4 years
Helped carry out and plan multiple Eagle Projects across different Troops
Essays/LORs/Other
For LORS UGA allows two, one from a teacher and one from another source that is not a teacher. The teacher essay was from my AP Lang teacher from sophomore year and if I had to guess it was pretty solid as we had a good relationship. Probably a solid 7-8/10. The other letter was from my old Scoutmaster, who led my troop from the time I joined last summer, which was 90% of the time I was in Scouts. I think this letter is much better and is really solid as he has seen me come from Cub Scouts and learn everything Scouting has to offer along with my Eagle Project which was described by himself as one of the best-led projects he’s ever seen, easy 9-9.5/10.
The personal essay prompt was about an event that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others. I wrote about how a high adventure (which is basically just a longer and harder camping trip) to the wilderness of Maine for two weeks taught us the strength in leadership and bonding as a team. I think it’s a solid essay and unique, probably about an 8/10.
Schools
RD:
UGA
KSU (Accepted)
GSU (Accepted)
One factor I would also like to point out is the way UGA calculates their GPA for admission purposes is by taking your core classes on a 4.0 scale (being an A, 100-90 is 4 points, B 89-80 is a 3.0, and so on) adding up all the points from them, and giving an extra point per AP class taken per semester, and dividing by the total number of classes, meaning the more APs you take the higher your GPA gets boosted. Due to this, makes my UGA GPA low compared to most, but rigor-wise, dual enrollments are looked at the same as APs, just not given the “quality point”. This is what I’m reeeeeaaaallly worried about in my application.
If you have any questions I’ll be happy to answer them and thanks for the feedback : )
so now it’s just a waiting game to know all your choices.