GPA - Unweighted: 3.4/87.67 (the average GPA at my school is 89. There’s no weighted GPA)
Class Rank: N/A
Class Size: 207
Junior year course load: 5 honors classes, 1 AP class
Senior year course load: 1 AP class, 1 independent study, and 1 honors class
Studied abroad in France for a year. All classes were in French (11th grade)
Scores:
SAT I: 1550 superscored
SAT I Math: 780
SAT I ER + W: 770
SAT Essay: 7/6/7
SAT II French: 720
AP French: 4
AP English Lit: 5
Other:
Gender: F
Race: Black
High School: Private
High School Type: top New England boarding school
Will apply for financial aid: Yes
Extracurriculars:
-Co-founder of website that acts as a professional resources for teen girls. Thousands of views in over 6 continents (12th grade)
-Studied abroad in France for a year (11th grade)
-Writing book for independent study on France, had paid writing content published on around 5 known websites (i.e: Rookie Mag). Most pieces were about France (11th, 12th grade)
-Head Tour Guide (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th)
-450+ hours of comm service: tutoring, special olympics, farming assistant, camp counselor
-Work: worked in a library for 7hrs/wk (10th grade), café for 9-11hrs a week (12th grade)
-Currently taking a gap year in France to work and finish my book
Schools: ( Not at all a definite list )
University of Pennsylvania ED
Vanderbilt
Yale
Barnard/ Columbia (idk yet)
Oberlin
USC
CMC
Wesleyan
Pomona
Rice
WashU
Howard
Williams
2 Community colleges
I understand that I have a lot of top-tier schools so I’m hoping that by figuring out my likeliness of getting in, I can cut/add schools accordingly.
I’m in your situation myself; I’m just a student and not an admissions expert. But, I’d say due to having great standardized test scores and being an URM, you have a shot at all of these colleges. By the way, I also applied to Howard with somewhat similar stats (31 ACT/ 3.5 UW); have you heard anything back from them? Howard should be a safety for you, and a lot of scholarship money .
I am a high school student, but I will use the information I have learned from CC. A bunch of schools you applied to are reaches. Your GPA is extremely weak, and your ECs are You’re in the bottom half of your class when 90-99% of students who get into these schools are in the top 10% of their class. Yale, Columbia, Vanderbilt, Rice, and Rice are out of reach. UPenn is possible, but unlikely. Not sure about the others.
Have to agree with @ab2002, many of these school are high reach, Howard and the community colleges are good safeties, I would suggest having a couple more of those. 3.5 GPA is low, many schools you listed want to see 3.75+ to be considered competitive. SAT score and EC’s are good which will provide you with a boost. Also run the NPC on those schools.
I don’t know what you major is, but other schools to consider:
-Northeastern
-Emmerson College
-Brandeis
-Hobart and William Smith Colleges
-NYU
-Fordham
-Case Western Reserve
-University of Michigan
-College of the Holy Cross
-Villanova
-Lafayette
-Bucknell
-Colgate
-Lehigh
-Vassar
If your school has Naviance, go ahead and check to see how your statistics measure against other students.
I don’t know about what type of classes offered by your school but the course rigor doesn’t seem that strong unless your school doesn’t offer that many AP classes. 1 AP taken as a junior and 1 taken as a senior isn’t gong to be that impressive to an adcom.
I do feel that apart from the GPA, you seem to fit the profile for University of Chicago. You seem to write pretty well and I can see you rocking their infamous application essays. They are holistic in some respects. This year a student from my son’s high school got in with roughly a 3.5 UW unweighted with only school leadership EDs. I think you have the more interesting ECs. And since you are URM, your application might get a second look at most of your schools.
If you went to a top NE boarding school I imagine that you received good college counseling from that school. Do your choices reflect the advice that they gave you? Being away junior year likely complicates things. How did you manage to be the head tour guide during your 11th grade year if you were studying abroad?
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