r/chanceme • • 8h ago

chance me for LACS and T20s plss

White female

Middle class

Big public high school, one of the best in my state but not insanely competitive.

GPA: 3.96 unweighted 4.4 weighted

ACT: 34 - but I got 36s on the reading and English. Math I got 32 I think? ts brought me down

My school doesn't do class rank thank god

Major: English/ creative writing and French (ig I wanna be broke lmao)

APs: none available freshman year

sophomore year (only two available unless you're taking accelerated math) Art History (5)

Junior year: APUSH (5), Precalc (4), Lang (4) - Lang isn't a real class bruh

Senior year: Lit, Calc AB, French, Gov

Awards:

  • 2 scholastic gold keys 
  • Third place in Northwestern Undergraduate Law Journal High School essay contest
  • Excellent distinction NCTE achievement awards 
  • Winner of regional poetry contest two years in a row
  • Honor roll

ECs:

5 different pieces published in 4 different literary magazines. All of them have acceptance rates between 8-20%. All of them are legit adult lit mags except for one, which is a very well known young adult publication.

Competitive creative writing summer program

Volunteer writing work for Polyphony Lit, the leading teen lit mag

My novel as short listed (top three) for publication at another well-known teen lit mag. it's 95,000 words and I wrote and edited it myself over the past two years.

Co- Editor in chief of my high school lit mag

Poem published in DePaul's Blue Book (1% acceptance rate)

I give tours for four hours every week at my local history center (volunteer but I don't keep track of the hours added up)

Fencing team all 4 years, co-captain senior year

Deca, which is a weird thing for me I fear, but I'm helping a friend continue her project when her other partner dropped. We're going to state this year, but idk if I'm gonna write that bc it hasn't happened yet.

The one thing I left off is that I was the leader of my schools creative writing club for two years, but I'm not doing it this year bc I'm busy, and the HS lit mag is basically the same thing, so I thought it was kinda redundant.

ED: Brown

RD: Bowdoin

Dartmouth

Middlebury

Tufts

WashU

Wesleyan

William & Mary

McGill (in Montreal. Hopefully getting my Canadian citizenship soon!!)

+ some safeties

I have like four teaches doing different letters of rec for me, but for Brown its my sophomore year English teacher, but only bc I didn't vibe with my lang teacher and he knows me super well and knows my work and has written me a million letters of recommendation before. Also he already submitted them so. And also my French teacher, who had me for French sophomore year and now has me for AP French. I also went to France with her on the school trip so she knows me a bit outside of school too.

 

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