<p>Hi, I’m a girl from New Haven, CT. I go to Emma Willard School which is an all girls boarding school in Troy, NY. </p>
<p>GPA (I did this myself so I’m not sure but it’s close): 3.7
SAT I: 2070 Verbal: 720, Math:640, Writing:710
SAT IIs: US History: 780, Math I: 600 (retaking)
AP: US History: 5</p>
<p>Senior Year I’m taking:
French IV (Honors)
A.P. Statistics
Neuroscience
Irish Lit
African History
Modern Drama
Arthurian Medieval History
Caribbean Lit</p>
<p>ECs
-4 years of varsity swimming (senior year captain)
-4 years of crew (3 varsity)
-drama at least one main prodution a year as well as stage managing and one acts
-peer educator (counsler) as a junior on a freshman hall
-3 years as staff writer at the newspaper
-3 years contributing to the lit mag
-model U.N.
-co-head (for 2 years) of FOCUS (a Christian group) </p>
<p>Outside of school
-for 4 summers I’ve been a member of a theater company for high schoolers in new haven
-working as a receptionist at the foote school summer camp
-babysitting</p>
<p>Essays and recs are going to be key for you. You seem like a competitve candidate, however your test score could be a bit higher. Have you tried the ACT? Also, do you know your rank or percentile. GPA means very little without it.</p>
<p>percentile, like are you in the 90th percentile (your GPA was better than 90% of your class, thus putting you in the top 10%) or are you in the 50th percentile (your GPA was better than 50% of your class, thus putting you right in the middle)</p>
<p>Oh duh. I knew that. I just don’t know mine. I go to a hippie boarding school in upstate NY. They try to stay away from ranking, but I’m sure if I asked they’d know.
Another stupid question–why does that matter?
Is it to determine if my school is competitive or challenging (it is). Or what? (I feel like an idiot but I’m curious)</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t know what exactly you can tell from ranking. The obvious answer would be to account for grade inflation. A 3.6 at one school might be a 4.0 at another school. If you are valedictorian with a 3.7, then you will look just as competitive as a 4.0 applicant who is ranked 5th or 6th at his school, based on GPA alone.</p>
<p>But where I get confused is that at my school, a B is an A at any other school. It’s extremely tough. But the student body is made up of high achieving kids who regularly get shipped off to state uni on a full scholarship, or Yale and Harvard and Princeton. Thus, one B, and your ranking drops like wildfire, but because the school is competitive, not because grades are inflated.</p>
<p>So I don’t know how/if admissions people can tell anything from a ranking.</p>
<p>kwd: I know Emma! Make sure your GC knows you want NU and tell them to educate the adcoms about Emma. DD went to the private/nonresidential competititor of Emma (you know where I mean). What school/major are you looking at? Admission is different. </p>
<p>Jane Fonda is jealous YOU didn’t get kicked out of the hippie-ish school.</p>
<p>You should try retaking the sat for a little bit higher math score. besides that, you have a very strong application. It is tough to say with highly selective schools because they are sometiems crap shoots…get into dartmouth get rejected at NU get in at NU but get rejected at cornell… get some very strong rec letters and go to an interview. also, i put in with my app essentaily a resume with ever ■■■■■■■■ thing i did in high school. in looking through my record i saw a comment on how they like it. dont fret to much, with your stats youll end up at a great school.</p>