Excited to start this journey with our daughter. We did this 2 years ago with our son who was awarded a 4-year to his top 3 on the second board (he did not apply to the first board, was waiting to increase SAT score). Our daughter's SAT score is not as good as her brother, she only took the test one time for practice over a year ago and spent months with an SAT tutor only to have every single SAT canceled, like so many others. She was scheduled in March, May, Aug, Sept, Oct, and they were all canceled and there was not a test within a 6-hour drive so she just went ahead and submitted with the SAT score that she had and hoped for the best. Her stats are as follows:
4.0 UW GPA, 4.28 W
Class rank 21 out of 319
1180 SAT
3 sport varsity athlete all 4 years of high school, she should have 11 Varsity letters at graduation
Team Captain 2 sports, Junior and Senior year
NHS
All-district and all-region for sophomore and junior year (2 sports)
State championship qualifier, sophomore year, track
MVP sophomore season (track)
Best female athlete junior season (indoor track)
Competitive cheer
Leadership Club
Student to Student Club
Part-time job, 15-20 hours a week
She maxed out her run time and push-ups, and think she did 34 sit-ups. She said that her interview went "okay," she's not much of a talker, is more of an observer, tends to sit quietly and take things in while coming up with a plan. Gets intimidated speaking to new people and hates to have the spotlight on her at all, so a few personality quirks that may have carried over into the interview.
I think the SAT is her weakness and might keep her from getting a scholarship at all, but she still wanted to get everything in for the 1st board because she knows there is very little chance that she will be able to take the SAT anytime in the future, and honestly, she stopped studying for it after the 3rd canceled test.
She is like everyone else and currently Boarded/Under Consideration, these next couple of weeks are going to be stressful as she is anxiously awaiting an admission decision to Texas A&M, her dream school but more difficult considering that she is out of state. She's gotten into all of the schools that she has applied to with 60-80k scholarships but of course, they are not Texas so she still waits....
Good luck everyone, I remember how excited we were when my son received his scholarship 2 years ago and he is very happy in his 2nd year and loving it.