<p>Hi everyone— I submitted my application last night (phew) and now have to wait the nervous 2 months to hear! I was wondering if any of you sage beings had any wisdom as to my chances of acceptance…</p>
<p>White female from Oregon, born in NY, pretty good public school
GPA 3.98 (only one B in first semester chemistry), school doesn’t weight, top 4% of class (and I can guarantee that I’ve taken a harder courseload than the other 3%)
ACT 32 (35R 31M 30E 30S 32Com E/W, 12 essay) (definitely using ACT)
SAT II’s Spanish (730) French (680), took Math IC a week ago, probably 700-ish (may not submit) </p>
<p>Will have taken 9 out of 12 offered AP courses, both Honors courses
Also 3 out of the 4 college classes offered at my school through Portland State University (2nd year Spanish, 2nd year French, World Lit/Writing 121)
One class at PSU (2nd year German)</p>
<p>EC’s:
Theater (4 yrs)
Cello (3 yrs, first cellist in orchestra)
Choir (3 yrs)
We The People competition (Constitution Team)
High-Five Challenge (basically the Oregon version of Teen Jeopardy)
NHS
MUN
Rec league soccer
Lots of volunteer work
One main summer job at a photography studio</p>
<p>Three school awards for outstanding achievement in Foreign Language and Art History.
-I’ll probably have a good counselor recommendation and 2-3 excellent teacher ones
-My essay is quite strong (about my experience in a Waldorf school 1-8th grade, why I’m attracted to languages)</p>
<p>TRAVEL EXPERIENCE
-Two month-long exchanges in Mexico that I paid for myself
-One summer spent working in Europe
-One community service trip to Baja
-Hook: I was selected as one of twelve US students to receive a full State Department scholarship to spend this summer in Egypt studying Arabic.</p>
<p>I speak English, Spanish, French, German, and Arabic at varying levels</p>
<p>I know I don’t have perfect test scores (far from) and amazing EC’s, minority status, etc. but my real passion is for languages and cultures; probably a linguistics major, made this very clear in my common app short answer</p>
<p>So how do I stack up?</p>