<p>Hi, I applied to around 9 schools early action. A list of these schools included:
U Wisconsin-Madison
Penn State
Rutgers
UFlorida
Umiami
Fordham
Vermont
Northeastern
Michigan State
Tulane University
Boston U (Regular for Dec. 1st Deadline, maxiumum scholarship consideration )</p>
<p>I will apply:
Lehigh
Occidental
Loyola Chicago
George Washington
McGill</p>
<p>Again. My school has a great record of sending kids with stats lower than the average population to these schools, especially Mcgill, Northeastern, BU, Fordham, Tulane, Rutgers, Lehigh, and GW. I had an interview with Lehigh that went very well and my best friend currently attends the school. My interview was also with the regional head of admissions for GW, he and I had a very long disccusion about living in Rhode Island and he told me that I was one of the most interesting student he had met in a while.
Honestly, I have to admit, most of these schools were reaches for me. But again, I attend one of the top public schools in Rhode Island, where the high school is extremly small and competitive and the average g.p.a is arond 4.0. I took a careful look at the stats book at my highschool and saw I was either on the higher spectrum of people accepted from my school to these universities or somewhere in the middle. My guidance counsler wanted me to only apply to five schools in the same region and refused to give me any safeties, reaches, or target schools for me when I met with her junior year, which was very frustrating. I know compared to many of the CC posters in general, I am not a very strong student and my ECC’s are kind of unstable. However, I am a very talented writer and my college essay was very strong. I also had a plethora of personal issues through my highschool career: starting from freshman year, where I was accused of commiting a crime that I did not do (school formally apologized when they realized I was innocentand I was never disciplined), to major bullying, to having someone from my highschool break in into and ransack my house, to some other unhappy things. I was very close to two teachers I asked for my reccomendations, both of whom, who were there and supported me during those tough times during my highschool careers and made sure to mention it in my reccomendation. </p>
<p>Nationality: Indian
G.P.A: 3.58 or 3.6 Weighted (Not so hot, I know. But I attend a very difficult/one of the best public schools in Rhode. I’ve taken all honors/AP classes. I have about 4 AP classes (UHISTORY, BIO, MICRO, and MACRO) on my resume, rest are all honors)
SAT: 1650 SuperScored
- 1640 first time taken with SAT prep class
- 1580 second time in the fall of my senior year
Act Composite: 26 - Feb 2011
25 - June 2011
I am not a very strong test taker. I actually did worst the second time I took each test. I did not sign up for the Nov./Dec/Jan SATS/ACTS. I feel like my low test scores jeopardized most of my chances at scools. </p>
<p>ECS: Cross Country 9th and 10th. Couldn’t run anymore because I broke my foot and have a metal plate and I didn’t heal right. I still have alot of problems with my foot.
GSA for 9th and 10th
Writing club for 10th. Club stopped after sophmore year
Interact club all four years
International club for the two years it was created
Asian Club for my freshman year but unfortunatly, the club was shut down after my freshman year
Enviromental Club, my senior year. Club was restarted my freshman year.
I also co-stared a new language club with one of my friends this year.
I work at my family business and I also work at a major retail store on the weekends
I pay for everything, family business doing really bad and so work is a major part of my weeknds and kind of prevented any chances of doing any kind decent ECCs. I worked anywhere from 30 hours to 12 hours a week my sophmore and junior year.
In the summer of my junior year, out of 160 people, I was chosen to work with small non-profit organization that did enviromental conversation with a local university, where we got to use the university’s labs and stuff.
Over the summer, I shadowed the CEO and other major hospital administration figures at a very prominent hospital in Rhode Island. My senior project was to highlight the Kaizen project and I created a patient survey that is used at the hospital to gain more patient feedback and improve patient waiting times and care. I put in over 100+ hours.
I also have a 45+ hours of volunteering at a retirement home as well over the span of my junior year and the summer of my sophmore year. </p>
<p>I got into Michigan State. I got UVM with a trustee scholarship. I was deferred at Fordham, Northeastern, and Tulane. Flat-out rejected from Penn State - UP (Penn state has a special relationship with our school). I know these schools where sorta my reach schools, but again, traditionally, most students from my school with lower or on-par stats get into these schools. I know people this year at my school who got into these schools I got deferred from with lower stats, no ECCS, and even lower test scores. I sort of dishearted and my guidance counseler offered me no advice to being deferred. She told me my only hope was my midsemester grades and to forget about sending addditional materials. She also told me she was surprised I got deferred from these schools, based on the results from my school’s stat book. I’m frustrated because both of my parents did not go to school here, neither them know anything about the college application process and nor did I recieve any help from my school. I could not visit schools because I was working all summer either. So, that probably did not help. I’m feeling stuck in limbo here and my senior year classes are all very difficult, so I’m not sure how my semester grades will be. I can’t really afford to apply to anymore schools and I’m just all over the place. What should I do? Any reccomendations on how I can make myself better and project myself as an actual individual in the application pool of thousands? Even though being deferred isn’t the end of the world, I’m very concerned and wondering if I aimed too high even though my public has a record of sending not-very stellar students to very good schools. This year, my classmates will be attending Vanderbilt, U Penn, Colby, Dartmouth, and etc…It has been a great year for the rest of my class over all. Most of the kids in my grade have been getting into their reaches. I’m feeling left out and frustrated. Also, because I was deferred from so many schools EA. UF was a long shot because I’m out of state and low test scores and GPA, I applied there for my long shot reach but based on the lack of acceptance letters I’ve been recieving, my money could have gone somewhere else. I feel like I will either get deffered from the rest of my EA schools I’m waiting to hear from (Rutgers, UWisconsin, Umiami, and etc). What to do? Advice? Suggestions?</p>
