<p>Another hopeful junior looking for advice. Please feel free to make any suggestions, or say critiques/overall comments. Sorry ahead for the long post.</p>
<p>General Info
Name: Daniel M.
Gender: Male
Grade: 11
Location: San Diego (county), CA
School Type: Public, semi-competitive</p>
<p>Background Info
Ethnicity: Hispanic (full Mexican-American)
Family Income: Low Income (<20,000)
Family Type: Single Parent
Miscellaneous: First Generation, will be applying for financial aid</p>
<p>GPA’s
UW (9-10): 3.652
W (9-10): 4.304 (*ranking GPA)
Rank: 32/565 (top 6%)</p>
<p><em>if junior year goes as planned, i should have the following GPAs</em>
UW (9-11): 3.742
W (9-11): 4.514 (ranking GPA)
UC: 4.174 (weighted)</p>
<p>SATs
PSAT: 57CR, 64M, 66W---->187
SAT II:
World History: 690
<em>i sincerely understand that these scores are WAY too low for the school that i will be applying to. i’m currently working my a</em>* off to raise these. i SHOULD have at least a 2100+ by the time i apply (almost impossible, i know). Please don’t let these scores be too much of a factor in your critique. I have battered myself enough already.</p>
<p>AP Scores
World - 4</p>
<p>**EC’s<a href=“i%20feel%20these%20will%20be%20weakest%20part%20of%20app”>/b</a>
Track and Field: 9-10 JV, 11-?;not expecting much better than that this year. will probably be JV (800: 2:28; 1600: 5:32)
Cross Country: 9-11 JV; again, same as above. there are just way too many people who can run fast at our school! 
Key Club: 9 member, 11 VP, 12 will be running for Lt. Governor.; I love this club! Its my passion. Its a lot of work (4hrs/wk) but I’m truly enjoying it. our club just got official this year, but im hoping to turn it around from last year (the club fell apart last year didnt have any members). I don’t have much community service hours (around 10, bad i know :() but with this club im sure i can get at least 50-75hrs.
<strong>Here is a list of very minor EC’s i’ve been involved in</strong>
Mock Trial: 10; had lots of fun. would do it again, but no advisor.
Academic League: 9; i could be involved again this year on varsity (automatically b/c im upperclassman) but i didnt really get that much time again (i felt stupid around the other players)
Spanish Club: 11 member</p>
<p>Courseload
AP Spanish Lang
AP USH
AP Chem
Honors Pre-Cal
AP Art History
AP English Lang</p>
<p>Senior year (predicted):
AP American Gvt
AP Biology
AP Calculus AB
AP English Lit
AP Physics B or AP Enviro Sci or AP Stats</p>
<p>Schools
Stanford (lolol. crapshoot, dream school #1) + HYP
UCB
UCLA
UCSD
USD
SDSU
*i dont know what i want to major in. what i do know is that i definitely want to be a teacher. preferably a college professor at a prestigious university 
:)</p>
<p>again, sorry for the long post. if you have any suggestions (such as schools, sat prep, ECs to get involved in, etc.) please tell me! Thanks again :)</p>