<p>Hey guys! I am interested in schools in the northeast! Here are all of my stats!</p>
<p>White Male
From NY
Go to a Jesuit high school
3.5 Unweighted GPA as of Junior Year
Math - 660
Reading - 630
Writing: 690
Combined Score: 1980
CR & M: 1290</p>
<p>Notable Courses:
AP Writing
AP Literature
AP Government
AP Stats
Honors English 10
Honors Geometry 10
Spanish 4
Calculus</p>
<p>ECs:
Medical Science Club
National Honors Society
Bowling Team
President of the Food Science Club
Engineering Club
Vice President of Microfinance Club (A club dedicated to charity)
Over 400 hours of community service, specifically tutoring young children with learning disabilities
Interned for a lawyer
Received tutoring in computer science for a year</p>
<p>Interested Majors: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, leaning more towards Computer Science</p>
<p>My GPA took somewhat of a nosedive Sophomore year due to my mother, father and grandmother undergoing serious surgery within a month span. I plan on writing my common app essay about these events. My Junior year average was a 91.0 (3.6 GPA).</p>
<p>My short answer is about my computer science tutoring.</p>
<p>My personal essay is about my parents’ separation and how I have learned to adapt and become more independent.</p>
<p>My dad graduated from New York University, specifically CAS.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Just some comments so you are aware what an admission officer may be thinking:
-Poor GPA, don’t know rank
-Fine test score, not great
-I hope you took the most rigorous classload → doesn’t look like you did…
-Medical science club? Seems like a resume filler.
-Microfinance? Engineering? When is it going to stop…
-Nobody cares if you received tutoring… it matters what you know. If you actually did tutoring, then you can include that.
-Community service is meh.
-You want to do computer science, yet you did a lawyer internship? Sounds like parent connections → Won’t impress colleges.
-I don’t see that common app essay to be good. I see it as being overly dramatic and an excuse for your grades. This essay instead should focus on what you will bring to the college…
-Personal essay topic seems stereotypical.</p>
<p>You need to post your class rank and the colleges you are interested in.</p>
<p>I’m the top 20% of my year. My school offers 11 AP courses. I took 4. </p>
<p>I labeled Engineering Club and Medical Science Club as career building clubs to see what I wanted to do. That’s why I hired a tutor outside of school to teach me computer science because I am passionate about it. </p>
<p>Not quite sure how tutoring children with learning disabilities for over 400 hours is meh. I went on four college interviews already, and they were super impressed with my community service. </p>
<p>I did the lawyer internship to see if I wanted to become a lawyer. The lawyer is a family friend, but regardless, I did the internship to see what I want to do with my life. </p>
<p>My short answer is about my passion for computer science and my personal essay is about my parents’ separation, how that has caused me to not have any influence to participate in sports, how I entered a school that is huge in sports, how I adapted to the situation by participating in ways that I haven’t thought possible and how I am no longer afraid to enter an unknown situation with a fear of not fitting in.</p>
<p>For colleges, I am looking into schools with good computer science programs. I am looking into Fordham, NYU, Villanova, Boston University, Binghamton University, Northeastern and Holy Cross.</p>