Is my GPA good enough?

mackinaw
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 21:48:31 +0000

The numbers look good. But admission doesn’t just depend on numbers. Or on counting an “impressive long list of extracurriculars.” The most competitive colleges are going to ask what you did, what you contributed, what you learned about yourself and others from those extracurriculars. They will want to see a person, an individual, not a summary score of achievements.

So focus on your STORY, who you are, what you want to become, and how what you have learned so far has prepared you to do important or special things after age 18, 21, etc. Where have you shown initiative and leadership, or helped others to do valuable things? What are those things, and how did you help bring them about? Create a narrative based on concrete evidence.