College questions

ecoppola
Sat, 22 Jun 2013 05:16:21 +0000

I will be a junior this coming school year. I have a 4.0 weighted and unweighted GPA and am in the top 10 in my class. When I took the PSAT I scored a little bit above a 1600 (1630-1650ish). I am not extremely involved in school or my community. I write for my school’s newspaper and will continue to do so for the duration of high school. I have been in honors classes Freshman and Sophomore year and am planning to take 2 of the 3 AP courses offered this coming year. I contribute to several notable online publications. I am involved with an ambassador program at my school and am a member in several clubs around school. This summer I am taking an online course in writing for an Ivy League. I hope to be involved in journalism and gender studies come college, but I am equally as interested in art history; regardless, I hope to write about these topics.

I have several inquiries involving the latter information:

Would it be beneficial to do any SAT prep or is my score fine as is?

Will my lack of extracurriculars hurt me in the college admission process?

Are schools like USC, UCLA or Scripps college out of my league or would it be more realistic to consider schools like Pepperdine, LMU, Mount Saint Mary’s, etc?

Lastly, what would be the chances that I would get into a college like NYU or Barnard? I am planning to attend a college with a strong liberal arts program.

Thank you!

Edit: I also go to a private high school, if that makes a difference