Chances of An Average Student

mcskillitcat
Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:19:27 +0000

Hey everybody. Northeastern is my absolute dream school and it would be amazing if I could get in. However I am aware of an immediate drawback; my GPA. Does the rest of my resume help in make up for it, or am I a lost cause?

Academics - 3.6 GPA (Weighted), predicted 3.3 - 3.4 for unweigted

Within top 15 percent of my class

Honors Courses throughout 9-10 grade (My school does not allow you to take AP classes until Junior year)

Junior Year, took AP U.S. History and Government (5’s on both)

Senior Year, AP Psychology, Biology, Calculus, and Literature (expect 4-5 on all of them except Calculus)

Multiple Honor Roll and Achievement Awards

1980 SAT, 2030 Superscore

Extracurricular - Captain of the Cross Country and Track team for two years. (Made first team all county, have good enough times to be competitive with both teams)

Student Government Class President

Creator and leader of our school’s Humanitarian Society (aims to teach students about inequality and injustice in our society and provoke action against it)

Quiz Bowl Team Captain

Part of the Heroes and Cool Kids organization (brings high school students to elementary and middle schools to educate them about sportsmanship, bullying, and drugs)

Intern at an up and rising SAT/Tutoring Institution (Prixcel Prep) for dramatic increase in SAT score

Volunteer Middle School Cross Country Coach

Personal Information - Being an ethnic minority (hispanic) to an incredibly low income family (single mom, under 20k, currently unemployed), I haven’t had the time to partake in many more EC’s due to my commitment to my listed activities and part-time minimum wage job I’ve had to take to help pay for rent and other expenses. (24 hours a week for the last 3 years, am currently Assistant Manager.) It’s gotten to the point where I have to get another job and will be working 4-6 hours ever day of the week. Will this hook be enough to clarfiy the reasons for my rather low grades? Thank you for anybody’s time!