Low GPA, extremely competitive high school?

BlueDevil18
Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:16:09 +0000

I’m currently a junior and will be posting stats below. Notre Dame is my dream school, but I don’t know if I’m a good applicant. So… I guess this is a chance thread… haha.

My high school is ranked top 10 in the nation by Newsweek and top 30 by U.S. News. The top 40 in my class are geniuses who have taken over 10 AP classes, which is something that I can’t handle.

GPA: 3.71
HPA: 4.45
Rank: 63/381
AP: 10th: Human Geo (4), Physics B (dropped second semester), Calculus AB (5), US GoPo (2, retaking), Lang (2, retaking), 11th: Macro, Micro, US History, Lit, 12th: Stats, Environmental, Psychology, Calculus BC
IB: Math, English, Chemistry, Psychology, Spanish, History

I’ve gotten 2 Cs (AP Physics B and IB Spanish 3). The rest are most As and some **.

Haven’t taken SAT yet.

Extra-curriculars: Tennis (6 years, not on team), Class secretary (9), SGA 2nd VP (11), Debate (9-10), Red Cross Club (9-11, President 11), MUN (11), NHS (11)

Volunteering: Hospital 4 hrs/week, tutoring elementary kids 6 hrs/week, going to a Chinese orphanage for 3 weeks over the summer

I started a project at school to put boxes in most classrooms to collect clothes for the orphans in China.

I am most likely going to a summer session at Notre Dame next summer.

No hooks.

I was thinking about switching schools, but quitting IB would probably make me look like a quitter who couldn’t handle the college-level workload…