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What do College Admissions Officers Look For?
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Transcript – Your transcript includes… Academic record for 4 years. All grades in all classes. Regents scores. Credits earned. GPA. Class Rank.
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Transcript (cont) Rigor: How challenging are the courses that you have taken? How good are your grades? Upward trend—when your grades go up from year to year in High School.
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Transcript (cont) What matters about your classes – How challenging are they? – Are they regular or summer school classes? – Do your grades “make sense” If you want to be major in Biology but you got a 65 in Living Environment, that doesn’t make sense.
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Essays Should take at least three months to write. No more than the allowable word count. The college will give you a prompt (a question or requirements that you must answer).
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Activities – Before/After school clubs or sports – Neighborhood program – Church/Synagogue/Mosque – Chores/Responsibilities at home – Jobs
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Activities (cont.) Summers are important – Summer Youth Employment – Volunteer work – “Nothing” is the worst you can do.
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Recommendations You will need at least two (2) teacher recommendations. – The teachers should be from your core courses and preferably those who taught you junior year. – You will also need one (1) counselor recommendation - They talk about your academic ability and your personality. – Ask teachers that you have good relationship with.
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SAT or ACT SAT – Three Sections: Critical Reading, Math, and Writing – Each is scored on a scale of 200-800. ACT – Four sections: English, Math, Reading, Science, with an option Writing section. – A student’s raw score for a section is converted to a scaled score, which ranges between a 1 and a 36, with 36 being the highest possible score.
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