<p>Caucasian Female
SATs: 770CR, 780M, 800W
French: 770
Math II: 780
Chem: 800
ACT: 36
Rank: 3/320
GPA: 4.72
Courseload: Most difficult possible for my school.
AP Scores: AB Calc 5, US History 5, English L+C 5, French 4, Chemistry 5, Bio 5; will take Physics, English Lit, Environmental, Both Econs, Euro, and BC Calc.
ECs:
FBLA: Community Service VP; regional, state, and national awards; I am on 2 national FBLA committees. Won some other awards too.
Mentoring 10-15 hours per week. I’m a Lead Mentor, which means I do a lot of other leadership/community service stuff too.
French Honor Society President
Took 2 college courses in Spanish and 1 in Latin (got As and A+s in them)
Math/Science Club: Public Relations, Membership VP, lots of awards in Chemistry, Physics, and Math
Temple Youth Group Treasurer for 4 years; I also work as a volunteer assistant Hebrew School teacher.
Girl Scouts–I worked with the town historical society for my gold award project. I’ve since written articles for them and given presentations at meetings.
History Club–Public Education Officer, Community Liaison, History Club Member of the Year (07)
Drama Club–Printed/sold tickets and worked on sound since I was 12.</p>
<p>Summer Stuff:
Latin at Stanford (06)
ASA Oxford (05)–Studied Shakespeare at Oxford, England
Worked in chemistry lab (07)</p>
<p>Yeah gold award!! Did you have to go through the same amount of hella bureaucracy that I did to get that little pin? Gah, it was terrible. Also, yay tech theater!</p>
<p>But anyways, um, you have reached the You Have A Chance Line, so write awesome essays and cross your fingers. If I were you, I might try to focus on your non-scholastic activities if possible in your essays/short answers - a lot of people have megawesome scores, awards, etc, but no one has the same set of experiences you have - gold award, hebrew school, tech theater, etc. Though, if your scholastic stuff is super impt. to you, then it might be better to write about those, who knows?</p>
<p>=P My gold award… they approved the whole thing right away, and then kept me there for another hour and a half yelling at me for not owning a vest. My troop dissolved several years ago; there are very few of us getting the gold award, so we decided it wasn’t worth buying a vest. It was kind of stupid. </p>
<p>Well I already wrote my essays and short answers, and they have nothing to do with my achievements at all. My “what do you enjoy” short answer is about playing Scrabble with my mother. My big essay is the “Write about an experience that at the time felt like the end of the world” one, and I wrote a creative piece about being born. My optional essay I wrote about a novel I tried to write in 7th grade and what the experience taught me. So… I leaned kind of towards my humanities side in the essays.</p>
<p>Ohh, Girl Scouts. Why is it so insane? I heard they were getting rid of the vests and going for some sort of charm bracelet abomination. Gah.</p>
<p>Okay, just kidding your essay ideas are way better than mine. Also you get 5000 gold stars for writing them this early. Five. Thousand. I procrastinated mine sooo much it was insane. But wow, those essays sound really cool! I’m guessing you’re applying EA - good luck!!</p>
<p>Heh, yeah, this Studio 2B charm bracelet thing. I have yet to see a charm bracelet, but I guess girls are more likely to want to wear a charm bracelet than a vest so they do have a purpose in switching. Or whatever it is they’re doing. I’m not exactly sure either. </p>
<p>:) Thanks about the essays. Yeah, I’m applying EA. I’m planning on sending in my application tomorrow. I sent an email to the admissions dept. yesterday that I need a response to before I can send it in, though. When I viewed my app. as a PDF file, my essay’s formatting had changed. For example, every time I used a dash it had been deleted. I was wondering if they see it that way, because if they do then I’ll just print out my essay and mail it to them. Without the dashes it looks like I have a whole bunch of typos in it, and that’d be bad.</p>
<p>Did you just copy and paste the essay in from Word? Sometimes Word will substitute its own magical character instead of the normal ASCII hyphen, and I remember that MIT’s app didn’t really like it…the same thing happens with ellipses, I believe. I might try going through and re-typing in all the dashes on the app itself, and see what that does…though if you’ve already done that, I guess it <em>is</em> a mystery!!</p>
Thanks!</p>