Totally Unique ECs, Weak GPA

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>GPA: 3.3 UW, 3.7 weighted.
Probably the weakest part of my application. I developed anxiety and depression in my junior year, and my grades nosedived. In my senior year, I took all college classes at three local LACs in place of high school classes. My UW GPA was a 3.5 for my senior year at these colleges.</p>

<p>I took 4 APs in total</p>

<p>4 Euro
3 Physics
3 Language and Comp.
3 Calc AB
2 Calc BC</p>

<p>My SAT’s are meh
720 Reading, 690 Math, 610 Writing</p>

<p>610 Math II, 630 Physics</p>

<p>I took a gap year in between HS and College.</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>-I’ve been playing the violin/viola since I was 5. I’ve been in at LEAST one quartet or musical group or a cappella group at all times (sometimes playing the djembe) since I was in middle school. In these groups I played at bar mitzvahs, churches, retirement homes, school concerts, you name it.
-I’ve been in school orchestra since middle school, and also regional orchestras, including the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Empire State Youth Orchestra, and one other one in new york. I’ve played at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and Symphony Hall.
-I went to Haiti last august, where I taught music to haitian kids and helped build a school.
-I worked in the RnD department of an MIT technology startup company making carbon nanotubes and capacitors. I worked here full time for 3 months during my gap year.
-Will be interning this spring at the Boston Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights, a well known gender NGO that has worked with the UN.
-Will be auditing classes at Wheaton college this spring.
-I started an Investment club at my old school. Had a few successful sessions, but I had to move before it could take off.
-Have worked at an ice cream parlor for a few years.
-I’ve done sports for a few years (xcountry, xcountry skiing) not in varsity.</p>

<p>I guess its too late to apply to schools now, but I’m curious how my application would look at a college like Tufts or GWU.</p>

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<p>Although your ECs are astounding, unless you’re the one that “cured cancer,” you shouldn’t expect to be admitted in to colleges such as Tufts with your GPA/Score. I don’t know about GWU and their selectivity though.</p>

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<p>Colleges do sometimes excuse low GPA’s or grades if you experience a long-time illness or something of the such. I know a friend who was out 2/3 of her junior year sick, but did really well on her SAT’s and took a few college classes senior year - she ended up at Wash U.</p>

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<p>^That’s true, but the question regarding the OP is: “Is your anxiety and depression self-diagnosed or properly diagnosed by a professional doctor?”</p>

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<p>Yes. I’ve been in therapy, on medication, the whole deal.</p>