College…..?
I’m 13 right now; I know, I’m tad bit young to be asking a question about college, but I’m curious. So, I’m in 8th grade and in all gifted classes along with 2 High School Honors classes (Algebra 1 and Spanish 1). I carry a 4.33 GPA and have dreams of going to a good college for journalism to have a career in the field of journalism/broadcast journalism. I also play on an eighteen and under Showcase Travel Softball Team in South Florida. I’ve written some poetry that’s been published in the local newspaper. I’m also applying to an “artsy” high school which requires auditions. I’m auditioning for the Communications program. The point is that I want to know what I should do or continue doing in order to get into a college like Columbia or Northwestern. Please give LOTS of details.
I’m also on National Junior Honor society, if it makes a difference.
Well, the bad news. Your 8th grade GPA will hold no weight in college admissions.
Once you get to high school, just keep doing what your doing now. To go to a school like columbia or northwestern, just get strait A’s. Never settle for a b.
Sign up for the january SAT so that you can see where you stand. Then practice, and take an SAT course, and try to get your score to 2250+
Join 1 or 2 clubs and attain leadership positions. Stay in these clubs your whole high school career. If you are athletic, try out for a sports team.
Thats pretty much it for a solid application. Write a great essay and get good recommendations.
If you don’t get into Columbia or Northwestern you will get into another top school.
Neniaf made an excellent point about summer programs.
Go to this program:
www.leadprogram.org
Northwestern(Kellogg) hosts a program as does UPenn(Wharton), Duke (Fuqua), UIUC, Dartmouth (Tuck), and a few others. Oh yea, Stanford, Cornell, UMich, UVA.
Basically if you go to this program it holds some weight on applications, especially at the schools which sponsor the programs. They LOVE LEAD participants.
Nope, sorry. NJHS will not make a difference. Basically, nothing matters until high school starts, but when it does that is when you must start working very hard.
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