Tufts '10 RD - chances?

emilylime16
Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:04:24 +0000

(x-posted in several forums)

white, jewish female from charleston, south carolina
academic magnet public high school, 94 kids in the class
my mom is a self-employed attorney who doesn’t make much $, my dad makes 100g + a year as a scientist, BUT i am the oldest of 4 kids, so we’re not exactly rolling in the dough.
(not sure if you needed to know that stuff, but figured it couldn’t hurt.)

gpa = 4.54 weighted, n/a unweighted
class rank = n/a (bc my school is a magnet school and very competitive and challenging, our ranks/unweighted gpas aren’t put on our transcripts)

sat = 700 m, 750 w (740 mc 10 e), 800 cr

sat 2’s = 750 us history, 720 lit, 620 math i (taking math was a mistake, since cu only requires 2 sat 2’s - will this low score hurt me?)

ap’s = world history 5, english language 5, psychology 5, us history 4
senior ap’s = gov/eco (semester courses), english literature, statistics, environmental science, french (will graduate with 10 ap’s of 18 offered)

extracurrix -
journalism = school paper 10-12 (political coeditor 11), writer for major local paper’s weekly teen section 11-12, had one article published on a website
jewish involvement = attended young judaea camps every summer for 7 years, went on a yj israel program for 6 weeks this summer, copresident of synagogue youth groupp 10-12, member of school’s jewish awareness club 10-12 (pretty much a joke but whatevs)
political activism= volunteering w/ several local/national democratic party campaigns 10-12, member of school’s young democrats 10-12 (president 12)
volunteer activities = teacher’s aide at synagogue’s sunday school 8-12, aide at local music day camp for 3 weeks this summer (200+ recorded community service hours in total)
random = member of school’s academic team 10-12 (cocaptain 12), voice lessons 11, guitar lessons 11-12, drama club member 10-11, junior intermezzo club member 12
academic honors = a-b honor roll 9, 10, 12, all a’s honor roll 11, attended barnard pcp summer in new york city for 5 weeks before junior year, national honor society member 11-12, ap scholar with honor (so far), national merit scholarship semifinalist (so far)

if you read all this you are truly amazing - comments? criticisms?

thank you ever so much