Gap Year Decisions and ensuing mental turmoil

Sifster
Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:07:19 +0000

Thanks a lot. I feel much more calm and settled now.

David, I’m pretty much in love with Smith. I have another friend who is just as in love with Bernard and we’ve driven the rest of our friends up the wall with our obsessive antics. It’s definitely my dream school and the more tit bits I come across, the more perfect it seems for me. To answer your other question, my G.P.A. would probably be closer to a 4.0 - around 3.7 to 3.85. I’m giving my SATs in November and I’m expecting a score of 2050 to 2100. If I end up taking a gap year, I might give SAT II as well.

S&P, thanks for pointing out the difficulties in organizing my application. I talked to my counselor and we’ve figured out how to make everything work. I think the main reason I want to volunteer abroad is because I envision myself working in third world countries in the future (mostly to do with sustainable organic farming) and right now that’s a pretty foreign environment for me. My community service in Bangladesh was easier because I know the people and the language but that isn’t always going to be the case. It might be too early to look for that kind of experience but I want to go into college knowing what qualities I need to work on if I want that dream to succeed.

Of course my rant may have been caused by the fact that my friend introduced me to College Confidential. I scrolled through all the ‘chance’ threads (quite idiotic of me, but the juvenile Siff tends to run away with her ideas) and I became worried about my E.C.A.s. Are they okay? I forgot to mention the internship I did with Gemcon (they’re a pretty big company in Bangladesh) after my freshman year. And should I mention the awards I got participating in high school competitions? (For eg. first place in a programming competition and second place in animation)