chance a polisci junior who doesn’t think t20s are possible
Demographics: female, east asian, texas, non competitive public (school literally opened a year ago + half of school is on free or reduced lunch), 120k+ income
Intended Major(s): polisci, gov, anything prelaw
ACT/SAT/SAT II: none taken :( will be taking march sat (700rw/760m psat unfortunately)
UW/W GPA and Rank: 4.0/4.37 and 102.53 weighted, 1-2/300+ (grade inflation goes crazy, assuming i'm going to drop by end of school year)
Coursework: all honors when possible, APWH (5), AP Physics 1 (not taking exam), AP Lang, AP PreCal, APUSH
(tentative) senior courseload - dual credit english 4, calc ab (school doesn't offer bc), apes, ap stats, ap micro + macro, both ap govs
trying to take all the APs our school offers but some I can't take due to schedule conflicts + we have no senior class to even know what APs we will have senior year
Awards: (sort of don’t have any…)
- tmea all stater
- superior rating UIL state solo contest x2
- tmea region band member in top ensemble x3
- (hopefully this year) pvsa bronze
- none right now, but can i say i was 1/2 who got 5 on APWH exam in my school last year (our school just opened back then)
Extracurriculars: (sorry i don't have a specific ranking of them right now, but open to suggestions and edits!) i hope to continue all my ecs listed in senior year!
- district-wide advocacy group (10,11)
- intern at law firm over summer (10)
- instrument player + band 8 years, leadership for two years
- crochet club - teaching beginners and donating to local nonprofit (11)
- volunteering for children 150+ hrs (9, 10, 11)
- teen court (9, 10, 11)
- religious teacher (11)
- civic fellowship (11)
- mayor youth council (11)
- national honor society (not yet chartered but will be in it)
Essays/LORs/Other: no idea what i'm going to write my essay on but i have an ongoing page in my notes app xD
hoping to ask:
APUSH teacher - we talk a lot about politics - even after school for many hours, super active participant in class
ap precal teacher - chill guy, gotten the highest grades on all the tests and quizzes so far
Schools:
rice ed1 (is it even worth it? i feel so discouraged when i browse this subreddit)
ut austin (auto admit liberal arts anyways)
i need more college suggestions :)
overall, i don't feel too confident about anything because having to move to a brand new school in sophomore year really closed off any academic and extracurricular opportunities i would get at a well-established school... admin was really strict sophomore year about organizations being started, so i couldn't do much then