No, I’m taking college classes online. Not registered in a school or taking them for college credits. I’ll be applying as a fresh student.
My friends in college sometimes take online classes and I get the materials.
Thank you so much for the suggestions. Really helpful.
No, I’m taking college classes online. Not registered in a school or taking them for college credits. I’ll be applying as a fresh student.
My friends in college sometimes take online classes and I get the materials.
I’ll be applying as a first year, not a transfer student.
Please explain this. Are you auditing these college classes?
Yes, I’m not studying them for college credits.
Guidelines
Demographics
Cost Constraints / Budget
(High school students: please get a budget from your parents and use the Net Price Calculators on the web sites of colleges of interest.)
Intended Major(s)
Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
List your HS coursework
(Indicate advanced level, such as AP, IB, AICE, A-level, or college, courses as well as specifics in each subject)
College Coursework (Transfer Applicants)
(Include college courses taken while in high school if not included above.)
Awards
Bronze Medalist, State level Chemistry Olympiad
Extracurriculars
(Include leadership, summer activities, competitions, volunteering, and work experience) School President, Freelance Writing, Phone Repairs, shoe making, Tutoring, Family accountant, AV Team (Church), Basketball Player
Essays/LORs/Other
(Optionally, guess how strong these are and include any other relevant information or circumstances.)
I used a Hardship Essay last application year. I’m currently working on an essay about Tutoring impact. Since I won’t be reapplying to any schools, which essay would be better?
Schools
(List of colleges by your initial chance estimate; designate if applying ED/EA/RD; if unsure, leave them unclassified)
Bowdoin, Centre college, Cornell college, Illinois Tech, Lafayette, U Alabama, UT Dallas
If a scholarship is necessary for affordability, indicate that you are aiming for a scholarship and use the scholarship chance to estimate it into the appropriate group below; also, for colleges that admit by major or division, consider that in chance estimate.
Full Ride Dependent
I was advised on my last post to not reapply so I’m currently working with this list and the suggestions I got. I’m thinking of going ED 1 for either Lafayette or Centre.
For UT Dallas, I’ll be applying for the McDermott scholarship but I took a gap year so I guess I don’t qualify? Gap year was spent working, auditing college courses, and tutoring college first years. I wanted to try again else I would’ve accepted the admission I got last year in my home country. I really need help with more colleges that I have some chance of getting in. I’m just trying so rejection letters wouldn’t hurt that bad. I’m stubborn and don’t give up easily. Considering my education, kindly note that the Nigerian Education system is TOTALLY different. Merci beaucoup
Remove the 3.5 - put the letter grades from your Junior certificate and for Upper/Senior HS as they appear.
For the record, this is how it’d be converted, roughly, if they chose to:
70+: A → 4 (75 might be converted to A+/4.3)
60: A-/B+ → 3.5 (60-64.9: B+/65-69.9:A-)
50: B → 3
45-49: B-/C+
40: C
Junior certificate results + grades 10-12/WAEC/WASC (etc) results = Gpa and for your sake it’d need to be 3.8+ unweighted.
Since you took a gap year you should have your WAEC/WASC results, right? You should establish whether you are top 5%, top 2%, top 1%, top 0.5% nationally.
Weighted means the difficulty of your courses is taken into account. Some students may take a class that requires little reading and almost no homework, where the teacher goes slowly and where tests are multiple choice. Those would be standard classes. If your class goes in-depth, prepares you for studying the subject in college, etc, it’s typically weighted.
Weighting means added points for a more difficult subject. So, if you’re in a STEM stream and study STEM subjects more in-depth with harder lessons than “standard” these get points added - typically +.5. If a specialty subject is examined in depth in a national (externally evaluated) exam, that subject would get +1. So, your 3 because a 4.
Weighted GPA is used by public universities; highly selective private colleges expect As in all classes more or less.
Do you plan to apply for this scholarship at Centre College
International Applicants
Centre College
https://www.centre.edu › apply › international-applicants
(https://www.centre.edu/apply/international-applicants)
Centre has one scholarship program that offers full funding for international students. The Lincoln Scholars Program requires a separate online application.
I’ll start working on that. Thank you so much.
Centre only has 10 Lincoln scholarships. I doubt more than 1-2 goes to an international student - and they say they typically expect internationals to provide ~$12,000 a year or more. I don’t know you can bet your ED advantage on such low odds.
Lafayette would thus be a better ED1 choice since odds are slightly better (though not high).
You say ~130 students attended grade 12 at your school (or is that 130 in your stream?). What’s the attrition - how many students were in grade 9 (Junior3) in your high school’s catchment area and how many didn’t continue to 10th grade? Of those in 10th, how many remained in 11th? And from 11 to 12?
Did your school distinguish between A1 and A2, etc to E?
I can work with that. 
This is really helpful. I sincerely appreciate it. Do you know any other schools I could add to my list?
I should be around 3.9+ if calculating with the grading system you typed. All my A’s are 75+ so A+? Grade 11 was 6A’s, 2B’s (74 and 70) and a C (63). Grade 12 7A’s (all are 75+) 1 B and 1C. We don’t use +/- in school or in WASSCE and they only give grades (no exacr scores)
Can I get a clearer typing of the grading calculations?
Ideally beside Engineering at colleges that “meet need”, you would look for colleges with ASC Chemistry majors within NESCAC, and apply to your favorite (that you haven’t already applied to) ED2.
A 63 would be 3.3 (B+).
Your guidance counselor or principal (or whoever fills your counselor form) would provide a scale indicating how
Something like…
75: A+/top 2% nationally
73: A/top 5% nationally
70: top 10% nationally,
65: top 15%
63: top 10% in province/city
60: top 20% nationally
etc.
(I’m pretty sure the 60/top 20% nationally is correct but the rest I give as an example so try and look for numbers. Those are usually found on Ministry of Education or such.)
All the way to E and F (and the percentage who get those results nationally)
All my courses were in depth, assignments for every subjectat least once a week, exams were written (No multiple choice?
It’s hard to explain rigor of our schools. We spend time writing notes in class that teachers got from textbooks that we have and are not allowed to bring. Some of our assignments were to stydy an entire topics ourselves and maybe get a 30mins explanation in class. So every year, we copy notes the size of ten textbooks. For students in my area, we normally walk 1hour to school and another hour back home.
70+ A1
70-74 B2
65-69 B3
60-64 C4
55-59 C5
50-54 C6
45-49 D7
40-44 E8
This grading is same used by WASSCE.
From Grade 10-12, my set/class had 400+ students. Science class had 130+, Art had two classrooms with 130+ each and commerce about a 100. As School President in my school, you have to be the best student from your set (400+). After graduation, there’s no Valedictorian, Salutatorian etc (According to my Chemistry teacher who understands the US s]stem, I should’ve been the Valedictorian
My school had no clubs and stopped us from creating. No notable award for sport involvement.
A 63 is calculated as C4 and that’s 2.0 on a 4 scale.
My school does not calculate GPA, note. And for my counselor and teachers, the only thing they hid from me were the recommendations. I did all the profile setting. No one is really familiar with the common app or anything. I’m the only student in my school that got a transcript because of these.
I found this in a book but this isn’t shown or used in my school even if it may be like this.
I’m open to all and any suggestions, please. I have a chance for myself. I take this application very seriously. I cannot be contented with studying where my effort is not seen, where a lecturer in college tells you A is for God, B is for Him, and C is for serious students.
If Work/study is needed, I’ll do.
