AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-- yale anyone? :)

JJK
Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:59:23 +0000

I’m a Junior & i’d like some opinions on my chances Thanks!

Gender: F
Location: New Jersey
College Class Year: 2013
High School: Public
High School Type: sends many grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes

Academics:
*my gpa went down junior year :(. i had a 4.0 up till the end of sophomore year. idk how that’ll affect me
GPA - Unweighted: 3.80
GPA - Weighted: 4.30
Class Rank: top 10%
Class Size: 200

Scores:

SAT I Math: 760
SAT I Critical Reading: 730
SAT I Writing: 800

(haven’t taken SAT IIs yet. but I will take Lit, Frech, math IIc, us later in may/june)

AP world history 4

Courses:
(freshman & sophomore year, i have taken the hardest classes offered except the science classes)
Junior year courseload:
Chinese 1
APUSH
Spanish 2
Precalc w/ limits Honors
French 4 Honors
AP English
Physics Honors
AP psych

Senior year courseload (already set) WILL LOOK like this:
history for foreign policy of american minds, ap lit, ap french, chemistry honors, spanish 3 honors, chinese 2 honors, ap bc calc, peer leaders

Extracurriculars:

Member New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music (i’m in a flute quartet)

Chamber Music Club (i’m the flute in a string quartet)
-* Benefit Concert Main Coordinator (basically, I took my nyy symph chamber flute quartet and merged it with my school’s operation smile club to create fundraising concerts to help those with cleft lips.Concerts happen every 3 months. I’m in charge of getting performers, advertising, contacting operation smile organizations, getting a venue & preparing reception)


VP of Harvesters Christian Club
Events coordintor of Harvesters (in charge of skits)
-Main Leader of church praise band
-President of church youth group


-Paid Tutoring (2 hrs/wk)

VOLUNTEER WORK

Flute Camp Counselor '06

Washington D.C. missions (42 hrs) '07

Creative Writing Teacher at summer school '07
-Writing Teacher at Korean Cultural (every friday for 2 hours) '08
-Concert coordinating assistant (this is a different concert than the one mentioned above. this one is for my flute teacher’s professional concerts. I help her handle the paperwork) '08

Honors and Awards:

French Poetry Recitation Contest winner '06

2 times H.R. essay contest winner '06 & '07

French National Contest winner '06 & '07

Sejong Writing Contest Honorable Mention '07

College Summer programs:

Columbia Masterclass for prose Writing Program '07

Colleges I’m looking at (ordered most desired to safety):

Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Northwestern, Wesleyan, Vassar, U Mich

So overall, plainly put, I do a lot of things with my flute, more concerts than competition. I really like writing & i’m thinking of going into journalism or lit major . Languages are very easy for me to learn. i speak 3 fluently, and am learning 2 more. I do a lot of teaching at church, especially writing. And, my dad’s a pastor so I have a lot of volunteering I do at church.