Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1730 (Math 640, Writing 600, Critical Reading 490)
ACT (breakdown): 25 (Math 27, Science 25, English 25, Reading 22, Essay 9)
SAT II (place score in parentheses): Spanish 680, Bio-M 650, U.S History 570
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
UC/CSU GPA: 4.21
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):Top 10%
AP (place score in parentheses): World History - 2 (10th grade) U.S History, Biology, English Language - 3’s (11th grade)
IB (place score in parentheses): N/A School does not offer
Senior Year Course Load: AP Micro/Macro, AP Calc BC/AB, AP Lit, AP U.S Gov, AVID 12, Child Development, Linguistic Anthropology, Cheer/Song PE
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): CSF, NHS, Majors Award, Seal of Bi-literacy, Gold Level Presidents Service Award, Outstanding Teen of the year finalists/nominee, 2nd at Cheer Regional, 1st at Cheerleading State, Gold Ribbon Award, Highly Competitive Local Leadership Seminar Nominee, HOBY 2014
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Varsity Football, Basketball, and Competition Cheerleading, All Star Cheer, JV Basketball, JV Track, HOSA (Treasurer), Red Cross, Kindness Club (Pres), Link Crew Leader, Academic Mentor, Part of a competitive academy for minority students, AVID Class of 2016 (Secretary/Treasurere)
Job/Work Experience: Babysitting, Med Center Paid Internship
Volunteer/Community Service: Summer Camp, Girls Inc. Local Hospital, Blood Drives, HOSA Events, etc. Over 600 hours!
I did not receive any hours for this but this fall I was part of the LARGEST student run non-profit which ran out of the AP Micro Econ Class, we raised almost half a million dollars. I tutored local kids, attends events daily, and put on two sold out benefit concerts. I was part of the finance committee.
Summer Activities:
9th: Volunteered at a Summer Camp, All Star Cheer, HS Cheer
10th: Volunteered at Girls Inc, All Star Cheer, HS Cheer
11th: Volunteered at Girls Inc anf the Hospital, All Star Cheer, HS Cheer
12th: Took Psych and Communications at a local CC, Volunteered at the Hospital, HS Cheer, Student Run non-profit stuff
Essays: UC 8/10 for both, Common App 5/10
Teacher Recommendations: Bio Teacher 10/10, Math Teacher 7/10
Counselor Rec: 10/10
Additional Rec: n/a
Interviews: UPenn 10/10 Georgetown 7/10
Other:
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type:Large Public
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: Female
Income Bracket:80K but the cost of living where I live is expensive.
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): UMR, 1st Gen
Reflection:
Strengths: Grades, EC’s, Course Load
Weaknesses: Test Scores, Common App Essay for sure
Accepted:
Seattle U (Nursing)
CSUCI (Pre-Nursing)
CSU Fullerton (Nursing)
Cal Poly SLO (Nutrition)
Davis (Nutrition)
UC Irvice (Public Health) I applied for nursing though
UCSB (Biology)
UCLA (Nursing) Will Attend
Waitlisted
SDSU (Nursing)
U of Portland (Nursing)
Gonzaga (Nursing)
Berkeley (Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology)
Rejected:
U of San Francisco (Nursing)
Stanford (Biology)
USC (Biology)
UPENN (Nursing)
NYU (Nursing)
Georgetown (Nursing)
My advice for any juniors applying next year is to apply through early action because I know that my slip of two B’s this fall affected my decisions. Also if you can afford it, do get SAT/ACT prep classes, because I regret not investing in those to help raise my score. Also have MULTIPLE people read your essays please. I submitted my common app essay after having only 1 person look at it. And chose teachers who actually care about you as a person, not just a student to write your recs!
I hope this helps future applicants!