African American and HispanicnED applicants

ablindz
Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:18:42 +0000

Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Brazilian
School: Competitive private school
GPA: 3.83/4.0 UW we don’t weight
Rank: Top 10%
ACT: 30…
Course Load: Extremely rigorous
Applying to CAS

In school ec’s

Founder/chief editor of the foreign language magazine

Opinions editor of the school newspaper

Vice president of the community service initiative book mobil, that collects and distributes books to underprivileged schools in the area

Treasurer of Breast Cancer Awareness

Varsity soccer for 4 years

Won a few scholar awards at my school

Out of school extra-curriculars

Founded a tutoring company that donates 20% of its profits each month to a different charity. Now has four branches: one in Montclair, one in Ridgewood, one in Englewood, and one in DC. Has grown much in the past 2 years, with a website, advertisements, appearances at local events to gain support, etc

Advised an independent study in Portuguese for a peer for 2 years

Junior PR assistant for a cancer organization called Angels of Hope

Event coordinator for the Brazilian NGO, Brazil Foundation

Volunteer at my town’s library

Club soccer

Work experience

Internship summer of 2009 for Brazilian news channel TV Futura

Internship summer of 2010 for Brazilian talk show Manhattan Connection

Internship late summer of 2010 - october of this year for NBC host Pedro Andrade

Worked over the summer, and currently, work for a boutique in my town

Previously did stenographic work for a Brazilian journalist on his second novel, as well as compiled articles from Folha’s database for his novel

2 days!!! Freaking out