Sunday, January 1, 2012

What colleges will I most likely get into with my grades?

All of your top choices are very difficult to get into, I go to one of your top choices now but was a recruited athlete which helps a lot. Now what it looks like (I'm not saying this is the case or that it's a bad thing) is that you are almost that cookie cutter perfect student. Colleges love that you did a ton of community service, but it's important that you make sure it look like community service that mattered to you, not just stuff you did with key club or to look good, make it look like you did it because you wanted to. Colleges don't care about your AP cles. Now there's a hundred kids out there that have perfect scores and straight A's, they were cool a while back but now admissions people are bored of them so they are looking for a different kind of person. YOU NEED TO STICK OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB TO THESE PEOPLE. In your essay you should try and be unique, be funny but not crude, have emotion but don't overdo it. Just be different I had a friend get into Duke by writing an essay about how she would want the power of invisibility so she could be "wicked good at hide and go seek". Then I had a friend who applied to Stanford, Duke, and all the Ivies and had a perfect ACT, SAT, over a 4.0 in one of the nations best public schools, a ton of activities, impeccable essays, amazing recommendations, was a minority, and more community service hours than you could shake a stick at and got rejected from all of them. I happens, but all of those schools are great schools and wherever you end up you will do well as long as you work hard

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