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Old 11-01-2009, 09:02 PM   #1
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chances please!!!

Gender: F
Location: S. california
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes


My dad is black and from S. America. My mom is Mexican



Academics:

GPA - Unweighted: 3.80
GPA - Weighted: 4.20
Class Rank: 15
Class Size: 700
Will have completed 13 AP by the time I graduate. Chemistry, Euro History, Enlglish (LIT. and Lng.), Psych, Biology, Calc, Spanish, Comp Sci, Stats, and others (I forgot)


Major will probably be in either biology or poli sci


Scores:

SAT I Math: 680
SAT I Critical Reading: 760
SAT I Writing: 660
Total: 2100

SAT II Biology - E: 720
SAT II Spanish: 770

Extracurriculars:

Significant Extracurriculars: peer leaders, city youth advisory council, California Scholarship Federation, Interact club, violin, high school orchestra with 4th place in national festival of gold competition, selected to attended the ratary youth leadership awards camp, also selected to attened the chicano youth leadership conference in sacramento, NHS

Leadership positions: committe chairman of the interact Club, vice president of CSF, secretary of Interact, vice president of youth advisory council

Athletic Status - list sport and your level: water polo- varsity,

Volunteer/Service Work: church (altar server), hospice, Race for the Cure activities, I started my own charity project in which I hand-made 200 teddy bears and donated them to abused children, library volunteer every summer
over 1000 hours so far

Honors and Awards: student athlete, rotary youth leadership award, presidential volunteer award, ap scholar with distinction, national hispanic scholar, honor roll, honor guard

College Summer programs: I take community college classes over the summer like Spanish, Microeconomics, Environmental Science, and Microbiology.

questbridge finalist
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Old 11-02-2009, 01:47 PM   #2
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You sound pretty good to me, but would like to see the SAT scores go up a bit. You are still competetive, especially with the URM statistic. But what is critical is your essay. So your best on it. Make sure you come through genuine and real.
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Old 11-02-2009, 03:25 PM   #3
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I forgot to add my AP scores! Here they are:
Spanish-5
English Lang-5
Psych-5
Biology-5
Euro History-4
Chemistry-3

Have yet to take the tests for the others
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