inconspicuous90

I will be applying to:
Wellesley (first choice...not applying ED)
Smith(3rd choice)
Mount Holyoke
URichmond
Syracuse
Tufts (2nd choice)
Carnegie Mellon


African American female
Moderately competitive Texas public school
Top 25% Class rank


My best SAT 1 scores are:
670 CR
630 W
610 M

SAT II:

670 Chem
planning on taking literature and scoring similiarly

GPA: 3.21 out of 4
(I know my GPA is low, but I did take some difficult courses.)

E.C.:

Theatre (all four years): Participated in 11 out of 13 shows including UIL
Director (Junior)
House Manager (Junior)
Historian
Ready Writing
Tutored English 1 and Algebra 1 (freshman)
Participated in community theatre show...performed about 20 shows, inclluding one on the steps of city hall for a crowd of hundreds



Community Service:
Volunteered at hospital for two summers and completed 90+ hrs(fresh and soph)
in Surgery Waiting area (assisted families to recovery, doctors visits...etc.) and Cyber Center (assisted patients and families with fax and computer use
Volunteered at library (freshman)


Awards:

Academic Excellence Plaques
Outstanding Biology


Senior Courseload:

AP English 4
AP Calculus AB
AP Govn't/Econ
Chemisty 3 H (Course after AP Chem 2, no AP available)
AP Comp Sci...and required regular courses: Comm apps, health, foundations, dance...

All comments and advice are much appreciated

inconspicuous90

AND Barnard, a recent addition

sweet_cream2090

your SAT and SAT II score is a bit low. try getting your SAT up to somewhere between a 2000-2100.

chance me as well,

here are my stats:
Asian female from NJ

GPA/Class Rank: Not sure of my class rank
Un-weighted—≈3.75
Weighted—≈4.10

SAT I: Retaking it this October and hoped for something close to a 2100
Total—1970
Math—700
Crit. Reading—600
Writing—670

SAT II’s:
Math Level II—740
Biology M—790
Chemistry—780

Honors taken since 9th grade + the ones I will be taking in 12th grade:
Honors Geometry w/ Trig, Algebra II, and Pre-calculus w/ Limits
Honors English 9, American Literature, and English Composition I
Honors Biology, Chemistry, and Physics

AP’s taken + the ones I will be taking in 12th grade:
AP Biology—5
AP Chemistry
AP Calculus AB
AP History of Art

EC’s/Awards/Other: I know I don’t have much EC’s
Silver and Gold Honor Roll—9, 10, 11, 12
National Merit Scholarship Program Commended Student—September 2009

Orchestra—9, 10, 11, 12
Newspaper Club—10, 11, 12 (entertainment section editor for 12th)
National Honor Society—12
Mu Alpha Theta, Math Honor Society—12

65+ volunteer hours at a soup kitchen—11, 12
Internship with a pharmacology professor at Rutgers’ Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy—Summer 2009

I have also traveled to many foreign countries:
Canada, France , England, Italy, Pakistan, Singapore, Switzerland, Turkey, UAE