Give me some schools to apply to that are still open. I’ve been rejected from my first-choice college ED. It was a really prestigious college and I knew I didn’t have much of a chance. I applied to 17 other schools, some of which I’m horrendously underqualified for. My top picks are liberal arts colleges in the Northeast. I feel like I’m shooting myself in the foot when it comes to college apps because I have such low stats.
Please don’t attack me in the comments. I’m already very ashamed and embarrassed because of my performance.
California Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Chinese female
GPA: 2.97 UW/ 3.0 W
SAT/ACT: n/a
APs: World History, Music Theory, English Literature, Environmental Science, and Psychology
(school doesn’t offer IB or let students take more than 3 APs a year, don’t let freshmen take APs)
ECs:
- volunteer at Eating Disorder Resource Center (12)
- advocate for Eating Disorder Organization Project HEAL (12)
- counselor-in-training at summer camp (11,12)
- wrangler-in-training at summer camp (11)
- rode horses, didn’t compete (9,10,11,12)
- volunteered at horse ranch I went to (9,10,12)
- attended a songwriting summer camp held by the Grammys, wrote two songs to get admitted (12)
- played piano recreationally (9,10,11,12)
- took singing lessons recreationally (12)
- co-founder/coordinator (10)
Essays/LORs:
I thought my essays were pretty good, however, I cannot judge myself on that. I knew they were my last hope because of my subpar grades. One of my LORs came from a teacher who knew me really well and loved me (we still talk despite COVID and me not being in any of his classes). My other LOR came from a teacher who seemed to like me but I don’t know how well she actually knew me.
Additional info:
I had two family deaths in my sophomore and junior years of high school. I suffered an eating disorder and wrote about it in the additional info section of the common app.