Hi College Confidential,
I am a current junior and would like to know my chances of being admitted into NYU CAS, Babson, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Emory, or UT Austin and to what extent would applying ED/EA to any of these increase the chances?
- I'm a United States Citizen
- According to The Washington Post, I go to the 14th most challenging school in the United States as of May 2017 (school's name is Uplift North Hills Preparatory)
Test Scores and Coursework:
- SAT: 1500, ACT: 33
- I took two subject tests (Math II and World History, both 750’s). Will retake for higher.
- My weighted G.P.A. is 4.19 (UW is 3.72) my rank is 18 out of 140 (my school does not send rankings to colleges)
- I’m taking IB and AP classes (I am an IB Diploma candidate)
- My transcript states that I “took the hardest classes offered at the school”
Male
Major: History
AP Classes and Honors I took:
- AP Human Geography (9th)
- Honors Biology (9th)
- AP World History (10th)
- Honors French 5th year (10th)
- Honors Algebra II (9th)
- Honors Chemistry (10th)
- AP English Language and Composition (10th)
- AP Biology (11th)
- AP US History (11th)
- AP US Government and Politics (10th)
- AP Microeconomics (11th)
- AP Macroeconomics (11th)
- Honors Pre-Calculus (10th)
- AP Stats (12th)
-AP AB Calc (11th)
-BC (12th)
IB Classes I took:
- IB English (11/12th)
- IB TOK (11th/12th)
- IB French 4 and 5 (11th/12th)
- IB History of the Americas HL (12th)
- IB Economics HL (12th)
- IB Math SL (12th)
- IB Biology SL (12th)
Rec Letters:
APUSH Teacher: 10/10
Econ Teacher: 9/10
EC’s:
In school:
Tennis (11th/12th)
Orchestra (violin)
NHS Officer (Member: 11th/12th; officer 12th)
Model UN Chair (Member: 9th/10th/11th/12th; officer: 11th/12th)
Junior World Affairs Council President (Member: 9th/10th/11th/12th; officer: 10th/11th/12th)
Others: Volunteered for political campaigns, created a product, participated/placed in various history-related competitions, teen court, econ/history project/paper research, etc.