Accepted to Bowdoin class of 2013

lamorena
Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:21:31 +0000

Hey all. I got accepted in EDI, but was a lazy bum and didn’t post here. XD

I sent in my ACT score, which was a 30, and an SATII in Literature which was a 760 if I recall. My SAT scores were all over the place, which is why I didn’t sent them. My Reading was 780, my Math was 670, and my writing was an embarrassing 580. Whatever. I didn’t have an opinion on the subject so I had issues writing about it under the time constraint.

My GPA weighted is 4.4, and my unweighted is 3.4. I go to the top ranked highschool in my state. I don’t know my ranking because we abolished those after the the difference between the top 20th percentile and the 80th was about .3. :P

I’ll have 7 AP’s by the time I graduate:
S:US History-5
J:Euro History-4
J:AP Calculus- oh you wish you knew. sorry guys, as one of the few kids in AP calc junior year and getting harassed for it, nobody but the college board and my mother knows this number.
J:AP Literature and Comp- 4
AP US Gov- to be determined
AP Micro economics- to be determined
AP Chinese- to be determined

All my other courses have been honors, except gym.

For anyone waiting on an acceptance, don’t freak out at the activities list. I’m a dabbler, and the only ones I’ve stuck with long-term are my volunteering, fencing, art, music, and writing. But art and writing and music have mostly been for myself.

So with that said I have: Been on the swimming, diving, track&field, soccer, fencing. I have had a play produced, and some poetry published in the school literary journal. I was the image editor for the school newspaper. I’ve volunteered over 700 hours at a summer camp teaching trail crafts (survival/camping skills) and taking care of a camp full of 300 kids. I draw and paint on my own. I’ve played piano since I was four, and swap music lessons with a friend (he teaches me guitar). I hang out in Jewish Student Union, and am the official token shiksa. No, seriously. I’m an active member of JSA since junior year. I did academic decathalon my sophomore year. I started Debate this year, and was made varsity, which is pretty hardcore if I do say so myself. Ummm… That’s pretty much it. XD.

Awards: National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar, AP scholar, and yeah… I got my play produced through a contest. Oh, and an obscene amount of Academic Decathalon medals.

Recs: I baked stuff for my recommenders after they showed me what they wrote. This is the advantage of totally loving a subject. They know it and they love you for it, and write beautiful, beautiful things about you. I had my World Studies/Econ teacher write one, and my Lit teacher write the other.

I’m a girl from Chicago, IL, and yeah, as you may have guessed Hispanic.

Good luck to everyone waiting on a letter!