Will someone chance me for Oxy?

LazyEye
Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:14:04 +0000

Female, white, from Colorado.

ACT: 29 (30 if superscored)
SAT: 610 math/730 writing/670 critical reading
GPA: 3.7 or 3.9 weighted overall, but 4.2 junior year and 4.5 senior year.

(My first two years of HS were extremely tough, I spent most of sophomore year in a wilderness therapy program doing really interesting volunteer work and living in a tent. I wrote my essay about this and it’s very powerful. I’m hoping it will be something I can use to my advantage.)
I’ve taken AP lang and comp, AP lit and comp, AP stats, AP art, and honors everything else for the past couple of years. I’ve also taken up through French 45 (the level before AP) and Spanish 35 in my four years.

ECs: TONS of volunteer work at the Hopi reservation, Wolf preserve, homeless shelter, hospices, rescue missions, cutting trails in the mountains, etc. I teach art classes to little kids most days. I also do DECA, a buisness/fundraising club.

Art: I have a really substantial art portfolio and I’ve won awards for it. I would post a link to my website, but it’s got my full name in it. If anyone wants to see I can message you.

Recs: extremely powerful rec written by my favorite teacher, an Oxy alum whose dad is a professor at Oxy. Another from an English teacher is really good, and one from my art teacher is decent.

A good family friend of ours teaches at Oxy and said he would put a good word in to the admissions committee. Also, my interview was great.

I reallyreallyreallyreally want to go to Oxy, it’s my first choice. Please chance me?

Thanks!