Chances for...quite a few schools

Gavvers
Sat, 03 Jan 2015 18:25:51 +0000

I am not a huge fan of asking stuff like this, but I would really appreciate if someone gave me an objective view of my chances for a few different schools.

Schools: Carleton
Cornell
Davidson
Duke
UMich
UNC Chapel Hill (EA)
Vanderbilt
WashU

Academics and Whatnot: My school is a well regarded boarding school in North Carolina. All of our classes are either honors or college level, bu I’ve taken ten official AP classes since I started high school

Weighted GPA: 5.0
Unweighted GPA: Like 3.75
Rank: Our school doesn’t rank. If they did we’d all be throwing ourselves out of windows.
SAT: CR 760, Math 750, Writing 660 (8)
SAT 2s: US History 720, Math II 700 (Not the greatest, I know. >.>)

APs: I’m only self reporting my fives and fours. I have three threes that I am not particularly pumped about them seeing.>.>

World: 5
Euro:5
U.S.: 4
Psych: 5

Honors: Accepted to attend JSA Summer School at UVa back in 2013
Accepted into JSA DNC Symposium back in 2012
Beta Club Service Award
AP Scholar with Distinction
National Merit Commended

Extracurriculars: 1.) Appointed as the Young Democrats High School Caucus’ National Finance Chair. I go on weekly conference calls and spend a good deal of time making budgets and planning out fundraising efforts. I’m hoping this looks good, as I’m putting a lot of stock into it pulling up my application.

2.) I volunteered upwards of 100 hours for the Obama campaign back in 2012. Mainly canvassing and voter registration stuff. A good chunk of my CommonApp essay is about this.

3.) Taught a seminar about United States Presidential Elections. We had about 12 classes over the course of the trimester, and it was pretty popular throughout the school.

4.) Model United Nations member since freshman year. I’ve always been very active in i, but I haven’t pursued leadership opportunities here. Mostly just including it on apps to create a narrative about political involvement.

5.) US History and English TA.

6.) Beta Club President for 2012-2013 school year.

7.) Student council 2012-2013 school year.

My recs are both Humanities teachers who know me really well, so I think they’ve written something really great. Same for my counselor. Plus the one who is closest to me attended both Duke and Vanderbilt, and I’m hoping that that somehow benefits me. My essays are fairly strong and I’v had them looked over by peers and teachers more times than I can count. I’ve been so stressed with this lately and I’m sorry if I ever came off as rude or arrogant when I was writing this, I really do hate talking about myself. But so what do you think? Do my prospects look okay?