Chance Me For WashU?

tobester
Sat, 26 Jul 2014 02:40:46 +0000

I visited the campus today and fell in love with it! It’s definitely my first choice now, and I plan on applying ED in November.

SAT: 2220 (CR- 760, M-690, W-770) Plan on taking it again in December and aiming for a higher Math score. (Is it necessary?)
GPA: 4.0 UW, Cumulative GPA- 100.5
Class rank: 9/100, may have gone up
I have taken all honors courses. My school offers 5 AP courses and by the time I graduate I will have taken 4 of the 5. (AP Euro-3, AP US- 5) Next year I will be taking AP English and AP Calculus.

Extra Curriculars: Beta Club (10,11,12)
Excel Club- 11,12 (Leadership Position- Board Member) This is a club dedicated to raising money for the Carl Perkins Civic Center, one of our biggest sponsors.
Reading Scholars- (11,12) Each month you read a book from whatever the category for that month is and give a presentation in front of a panel of teachers and they choose a winne. I have won twice so far.
FCA- 9,10,11,12
National Honor Society- 12
Student Government- 12
Selected to be a Junior Volunteer at the hospital (4 hours a week, by the time I apply I will have completed about 80ish hours)
Small volunteering at RIFA, community events, and school events (ushering at graduation and Senior Awards day, helping at open houses, etc)

Honors-
Delegate to Volunteer Girls State (Elected city mayor, county mayor, and senator)
Junior All West Tennessee Band 9th Grade
Nominated for Young Scholars Academy at UT Martin- Top Scholar award for Elocution
Selected for Leadership University (40 students from the school system) and received an award for perfect attendance
Union University Writing Competition Winner in Creative Nonfiction
Selected as “Best of the Best” 9th, 10th, and 11th (this is a schoolwide faculty-nomination thing but I guess it’s still valid haha)
Homecoming Royalty- 10th grade
There’s also a chance of me being nomiated as a Jr. Rotary Club member my senior year

Hook- URM (Nigerian, first generation American citizen)

Teacher Reccomendations- should be amazing considering all the things I get nominated for haha
Counselor Recommendation- I’ve developed a personal relationship with her so it should be far from generic

Essay- Well, I like it. I wrote it about how I used to have contempt for my heritage due to skewed perception of Africa that Americans have but now I’ve embraced it.

I think that’s it! If I missed anything let me know, and thanks in advance!