Saturday, July 27, 2019

Chance me for UPenn, Dartmouth, Wash U, UMich and Trinity :)

Either ED UPenn or Dartmouth, EA for UMich, the others RD

Info:

White, competitive high school

Intended Major(s):

- History/Art History

Scores

- ACT: 35

- Math II: 800, Bio: 750

GPA:

- no cumulative GPA, school just gives one per year. 3.9 unweighted for both Freshman and Sophmore year, 4.0 unweighted for Junior Year. Hard to tell where I stand in my class without rankings, but I think I'm maybe top 10% of my class? Not sure.

Coursework:

- My school doesn't offer APs, so there are technically no advanced-level classes to take. I self-studied for 3 APs anyways and got a 4 on all three (APUSH, Bio and English Language). Not amazing, but I'm pretty happy with the scores.

Extracurriculars:

- President and Founding Member of Art History Club (9-present), initiated a school newspaper column for the club, bring in guest speakers, organize communitive service initiatives for funding for the arts

- Red Door Member (9-present), give school tours to prospective families, sit for panels etc.

- Varsity Tennis Team - Captain (9-12), made it to league finals three years in a row

- Yale Young Global Scholars - Creative Arts and Media Participant (Summer 2019)

- Summer Tennis Camp Counselor (9-12)

- Italian Language Study (9-12), I study Italian outside of school once a week for 2 hours

- Upper School Dance Company and Choreography Club (9-12)

- "Baroque Art" - University of Vermont (Summer 2018), took this college-level course, got an A and some college credits

- Renaissance History - British Institute of Florence (Summer 2017), 3-week pre-college program

- Writing the Expository Essay - Brown University (Summer 2017), pre-college program

- Founder of an indie nail polish business (6- present), make customized nail polish, have generated approximately $9,000 in sales so far, all profits go to ASPCA (have received an ASPCA Business Ambassador Award)

- Community Service Club member (9-12)

Awards:

- Published in the Concord Review

- Won First Prize in International Essay contest with 13,000 entries (only one first prize winner)

- Published in The Schola (a humanities academic journal/kind of similar to Concord Review)

- Silver Medal in Le Grand Concours (National French competition)

- Honorable Mention- Scholastic Art Awards

- Voted League All-Star for the school's Varsity Tennis Team for all three years I've played (other coaches in the league vote)

Recs:

- 11th Grade History Teacher, also club advisor for Art History Club, I'd say 9/10

- 11th Grade Math Teacher, I did really well in this class so hopefully 8/10



Submitted July 27, 2019 at 05:18PM by 11estige https://ift.tt/2LGKoBP

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