hey everyone welcome to my channel my name is Grant Tucker and if you're new here I was recently accepted into 10 universities six of which were Ivy League schools today I'm going to be sharing the stats extracurriculars honors and awards that helped get me into these universities if you don't already make sure to drop me a follow on Tick Tock all of my socials have the same username so if you are interested in the college related content that I'm able to share make sure to drop me a follow on all those platforms and if you haven't already make sure to subscribe for me on YouTube now before I go into detail I'm going to be getting a little bit of a background about me as a student and what my high school career looked like and afterwards I will be discussing how I believe that I stood out in the admissions pool for context during my freshman and sophomore year I went to a top 50 historically ranking Public High School in Jacksonville Florida after my sophomore year I wanted to more fervently pursue my passion of environmental science at the high school that I'm currently at Fletcher high school and I'm glad I made the switch at the former school I was ranked 100 out of about 300 to 400 students with a 4. 6 ish weighted GPA and then by the time I transferred right before my junior year to my new high school Fletcher High School I became number five in my class out of approximately 400 students my major that I applied as to most of these schools was somewhere along the lines of environmental science Environmental Studies or environmental engineering I am Caucasian I come from a two-parent two-child household I have a younger brother and there's nothing really extraordinary about my background father is in the military and I've moved around a few times growing up I was able to live in Knoxville Tennessee which was where I was born and raised I then moved to Oahu Hawaii which was great I learned to Surf there and for all of grade school and Elementary School I have presided in Jacksonville Florida my high school Fletcher High School is not known for sending kids to Ivy Leagues every single year the public high school with approximately 2 000 students now let's go over my academic profile my GPA was rated on a 4. 0 unweighted and a 5.
0 weighted scale by the time of applying I had a 4. 0 unweighted GPA and a 4. 8145 weighted GPA I graduate in approximately two weeks and I will be finishing high school with a total of 16 AP courses taken here's the full list of AP courses I've taken through High School broken down by year here is the full list of scores that I received I received a five on AP macroeconomics AP environmental science and AP Calculus a B on the SAT my superscore was a 1570 which was a combination of my 780 reading on my first official test and my 790 math on my second official test now let's go over the full list of my activities section on my common application this first activity can be considered my passion project I founded my very own environmental nonprofit with the goal of combating climate change through youth coalitions our major undertaking was when Jacksonville decided to indefinitely suspend curbside recycling in October of 2021 and so my team got together and decided that we were going to protest this decision we ended up with over 2500 online petition signatures through change.
