Yet another chances query

ddjones007 · June 6, 2006, 10:15am

Hi,

Here are the bare bones… (12 means activities anticipated to continue senior year)

Class rank 3/145 at Catholic college prep school, taking all advance courses offered, including 30+ hours by graduation of St. Louis U 1-8-1-8 college credit offered at high school.

GPA 4.0/4.0 unweighted; 4.35 weighted

Secretary, National Honor Society 11,12

Academic Awards: Outstanding Freshman English student; outstanding Junior History student, A honor roll

Athletics: Soccer: JV, 9; Varsity, 10,11,12
Basketball: Freshman & JV; co-captain of JV 11,12
Varsity cross country: 11,12
Competitive club soccer: 10,11

Chamber Choir: 9,10,11,12

Sings national anthem at h.s. basketball games: 10,11,12

Cantor song-leader at Catholic parish: 8,9,10,11,12

Youth soccer coach volunteer: 9,10,11,12
Vacation Bible School song/dance teacher volunteer: 7,8,9

Legacy–mother graduated ND, brother currently attends…

Lots of clubs, community volunteer service; summer job as lifeguard & swim lesson instructor

And now, the question mark–ACT 29, taking again, not the best tester

Any chance of getting in if ACT doesn’t go up?

Just curious…

ddjones007 · June 6, 2006, 10:58am

Oops–a mistake there… The freshman and jv basketball stints were in 9,10, not 11,12…

irish68178 · June 6, 2006, 11:24am

You go to SLUH (or DeSmet) don’t you? I went to Regis Jesuit in Colorado and the awards and activities look very very similar. I do think I would definately take the SAT and re-take your SAT but I do think you would get in as you sit, but it will be closer than you want to be given your test scores. Definately keep working and good luck!

ddjones007 · June 6, 2006, 12:19pm

Actually am writing on behalf of someone else. She would have been quite pleased to go to SLUH or DeSmet, but they keep the girls away. Are you a current student?

irish68178 · June 6, 2006, 12:26pm

Yes, I will be a senior at ND next year

ddjones007 · June 6, 2006, 5:51pm

Good for you. My son just finished his freshman year there. Do you work in the admissions office? I know they have some students who help there…

jpp23 · June 6, 2006, 6:32pm

Hi ddjones - my son just finished his freshman year at ND, too. My daughter starts there in the fall.

I think this girl has a good shot at ND - Retaking the ACT and getting her score up at least one more point wouldn’t hurt. Bu

irish68178 · June 6, 2006, 7:58pm

Nope, don’t work in admissions but I have been on these boards since my freshman year in high school. Actually this year I am moving over to the boards on SDN.com because I have to start asking questions about graduate school for myself! I hopefully will be on here quite a bit as well but not as much :(. I just have always thought admissions were interesting and have hung around.

RHSstudent07 · June 17, 2006, 12:45am

You are pretty much in. Your ACT is little below the average (30 - 33, class of 2004), but all of your other material like Extra., GPA, Alumni relation (MOM= big plus, brother= another plus), rigor of secondary school record are quite strong. Make sure you work on your recommendations and essay. Apply early action and you have nothing to worry about. good luck

ddjones007 · June 20, 2006, 8:26am

A QUICK UPDATE: The question I pose now is Early Action or not?

ACT scores came in this morning; she ended up boosting her score to a 31 composite (35 English). Also, in the original post, I forgot to include she is going to be a delegate at Girls State.

The rest, as refresher, is below: