Reverse Chance Me- History

Failtrail527
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:40:13 +0000

Hello! I seriously don’t know where to apply to, so I hope y’all can help me!

Academics:

ACT: 32 3.93 unweighted GPA 4.43 (I’ll explain later) SAT II’s, 770 US History, 680 Literature

My school is a private school, but they didn’t offer any AP’s, only honors. It was a really horrible school, and even though I was valedictorian, my class size was only 13. They do their weighted GPA is a really strange way, and I don’t understand it, but I took all the toughest classes, besides like a non honors math sophomore year.

Extracurriculars

Probably my biggest extracurricular is going to Germany on an exchange senior year. I didn’t really know any German, and it was a struggle, so I wrote a really good Common App essay. I’m back again in Germany to learn German in a gap year.

I also spent the summer (20 hours/week) working for a governor political campaign.

I volunteered for a hospital for 300 hours for two years on Saturdays (4 hours per Saturday). Has nothing to do with the occupation I want to go into…basically just directed people to certain parts of the hospital and answered the phone.

I went on three missions trips for one week each with my youth group in the summer. I was really involved in my church youth group for all four years of high school, but didn’t have any leadership positions.

What I’m looking for in a school

I’ve wanted to get into a top 30 school for a while, but I’m afraid my stats aren’t good enough. I’m also conservative politically. That doesn’t mean I want a really conservative christian school though. I do want to be among a certain amount of like-minded peers, and be allowed to speak my mind, so that means schools like Carleton and University of Vermont are out.

I also don’t want a school that revolves around drinking. I have no problems with people having a good time, but that’s honestly not for me. I’m also not interested in being Greek, so a school that revolves around Greek isn’t for me (Washington and Lee, for example).

Location

Location isn’t all that important to me, but ideally not in the middle of nowhere. I live in New Jersey, but there aren’t any good options there in terms of colleges.

Financial Aid

It would be great to go to a school that meets full-aid, but I know that’s not realistic. It would still be nice to go to a school with good aid.

Academics

Looking hopefully for a school that has decent German options, because I do want to continue with that. I’m not sure what my major is going to be, but definitely something in the humanities (probably history, political science, or something like that).

Schools I’ve already applied to:

UNC, Princeton, Brown, Wake Forest, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Olaf (safety), William and Mary (probably won’t give me any aid OOS), Notre Dame (rejected EA).

I’m aiming way to high with these schools, and would like some other safety/match schools! And sorry for the formatting, I have no idea how it works on CC. Haha.