can i get in???

a-la
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:51:15 +0000

Prospective schools: Emory, George Washington, Wash U (St. Louis), Penn (big reach!), UW-Madison, John Hopkins, U. Chicago, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon

-white male from rural Wisconsin
-attend fairly competitive boarding school in wi. (receive financial aid)
Rank- 2-5/80 (don’t know exact)
GPA (W/UW): 4.45/3.89
SAT/ACT: Will take in spring… If it helps, I recieved a 24 act when i was in 6th grade…
AP’s:
5- US Hist. (soph)
Junior Year: Bio, Euro, Calc AB
(have a’s in all subjects right now)

Senior Year: Macroeconomics Microeconomics Calc BC Stats Gov’t Literature
SAT II:
710 US (7 months after ap test)

EC’s:
Varsity Soccer- will be 4 years… mvp and team captain this year
Olympic Development Program Soccer- Junior year
Club Soccer
Varsity B-ball- junior/senior year
Model UN- member (10-12) hopefully some awards this year
Senior member/prospective president- Human Rights/Geopolitics Research Group---- worked with numerous guest speakers and raised a couple thousand $$ for Sudanese relief effort/doctors w/out borders
Acting Workshop with college professors for about 10 years
Ecology Club-3 years
Community Service:
Soccer Ref, General service- around 100 hours (plan to do much more before applying to college)
Job:
Small jobs at a family business
Soccer Ref

I am very interested in economics/business and biology-- will major pre-med or business (most likely). Looking for a school with an urban setting and busy social life- “work hard, play harder”… possibly looking to play soccer (not on scholarship though)

any advice/feedback is greatly appreciated… im nervous haha

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