Chances for coca-cola scholarship? Should I apply?

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<p>Female from upstate NY
Unweighted GPA: 93 (school doesn’t rank or weight grades)</p>

<p>Courses:</p>

<p>Middle school:
Algebra 1: advanced
French 1</p>

<p>Freshman:
Geometry: advanced and honors
Earth Science
French 2
Global
English: honors
Intro to art
P.E</p>

<p>Sophomore:
Algebra 2/trig: advanced and honors
AP world
French 3
English: honors
Bio
Photography
P.E</p>

<p>Junior:
APUSH
Latin 1: honors
BritIsh Lit: honors
Chem
Pre-calc: advanced/honors
Advanced photo
Health
Human Anatomy
P.E</p>

<p>Senior (this upcoming year)
AP Bio
AP Micro
AP Calc BC
AP Stat
2 semester long writing classes
Photo Portfolio
P.E</p>

<p>All Grades are in the 90s except mid/high 80’s in APUSH and AP world</p>

<p>Over 350 hours if community service in the past two years
2 weeks each of the past 2 summers volunteering at overnight religious camp (40 hrs/week x4 weeks total)
1 week/summer at urban day camp for kids (40 hrs/week x2)
Alternative Spring break for 2 years (40 hrs/week x2)
25 hrs/year other community service for youth group.</p>

<p>And do test scores (ACT/SAT) matter? Thank you for reading this!!!</p>

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<p>I think you should apply and get the career you want no matter what.</p>

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<p>/\ YThat was useful. Your resume looks very slim. As a coca cola scholar, I know that all the other students, including me, had a ton of activities and community service. Your transcript doesn’t really matter at all, nor does your ACT/SAT score. But still go ahead and try, you never know!</p>

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<p>Thank you so much! Do you mean other ECs related to community service? I have other ones that are in different areas(sports, etc)</p>

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<p>The scholarship is almost entirely based on those that go above and beyond in community service. If you go through the online application, its really 5 pages of blank boxes for what you volunteered/ECs you joined. Absolutely no transcript or SAT boxes.</p>

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<p>I did notice on the website, one scholar with 200 community service hours, others had much more, for what that is worth. You should apply.</p>

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<p>Okay thank you both for the information!!!</p>

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<p>Hey guys! I’m going to be a senior next yr and I’m going to be applying to the Coca Cola Scholars. How bad would 3 c’s on my transcript affect it? My gpa is a 3.55 though </p>

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<p>Still apply. Don’t let your C’s keep you from applying to scholarships or certain colleges. Everyone has the same opportunity for a scholarship. Do not assume that your chances are out because of the C’s. We are all human, and it is completely normal to struggle and try hard and still obtain a bad grade. I know I have had that experience. Your GPA is fine, which shows that you were just struggling in a certain class which is completely normal. These scholarships value more of your extracurricular involvement than your academic grades.</p>