Hello everyone!
Below are all my stats and extra curriculars. I am a white female from Chicago going into my senior year. My school is a progressive private school in the city. Thank you so much for the help!
GPA: 4.03 on a 4.0 scale. This is not including my grades from this year, which I think would raise my grade (My school doesn’t have weighted GPAs and does not rank!)
Courses: My school does not offer APs, honors or anything of that sort. The only classes that are tracked are math and science. I was in the middle levels of both math and science and received As every year in those classes and an A+ in math class this year.
Test Scores: I got a 33 on the ACT and I plan to take it again in September to see if I can do better.
I had 36s in English and reading and 29s in math and science. I had a 10 on my essay.
I also took the US History subject test and got a 750. I took the Lit subject test and got a 680. I plan on taking it again in October and hopefully going to do better.
Extracurriculars:
- Editor-in-Chief of my school newspaper for 1 year
- Features editor of my school newspaper for 1 year
- Copy editor for my school newspaper for 1 year
- Volunteer tutor with an organization called RefugeeOne for 4 years
- Teen Volunteer for three weeks every summer at Lincoln Park Zoo for 3 years
- Student Representative for the Board of Trustees at my school for 1 year
- A member of the Student Leadership for Identity, Diversity and Equity, which teaches 9th graders at my school about how to talk about race, for 1 year
- Assistant Principal Cellist for the Protege Philharmonic Orchestra for 3 years
- Member of science olympiad for 4 years
- Member of Model UN for 3 years
- Played the cello and taken private lessons for 10 years. I plan on submitting a supplement
- Principal cellist for the Blue Lake International Youth Symphony Orchestra for 1 summer
Awards:
My school does not give out awards, but I did win a regional award from the Scholastic Art and Writing awards in journalism for an article I wrote.
I also did a 5-week summer journalism program at Northwestern and 2 week-long programs at Georgetown
The colleges I am currently interested in are:
Amherst College
Bowdoin College
Carleton College
Colby College
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Macalester College
Swarthmore College
Tufts University
College of William & Mary
Williams College
My favorite is definitely either Williams or Harvard and I am thinking about applying ED/REA to one of them.
Once again, thank you for all your help!