Can the average student realy pull it off?!?!

dude83190
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:16:48 +0000

Grades: current cum. grades. 3.3 UW and 3.5 W.They are low because I slacked off my first 2 years but my junior year I worked hard and went from making 3.3 W on semester grade i got straight A’s 4.4 so BIG upward trend.

Courses:
freshman year i had all regular classes
softmore year i had 2 honors classes
junior year i had 3 honors classes
senior year i have 4 ap ( stats, lit, micro, macro) and 1 honors (government)

Clubs:
Guitar Club- 9 -haha who cares
FBLA-11,12- vp going on to president
Anchor Club-11,12- A environmental service club, nominated for anchor of the year and gained about 25 hours service

SAT-
1st time- reading= 490, math= 640, and writing=530 m&r=1130
2nd time- reading = 510, math= 580, and writing= 550 m&r= 1090
3rd time- going to take in october and hope to get 1200 for m&r
Superscore so far for m&r= 1150

Community Service-
about roughly 90 to 100 hours

Teacher Letters
Two amazing letters from my physics and english honor teachers. You can realy tell they put time and thought into them!

Talent:
Guitar Hero haha i have been playing guitar for 8 years now and I am lead guitar for the school jazz band which i have been apart of since freshman year. I have very popular youtube videos of me playing, well not super popular but 7000 people is alot!

Misc.
A group of my friends got together and played in the 2nd annual talent show and we won crowd favorite. It was huge audience to!!!

Well thats alot of what I can think of as of now. I wish i didn’t bomb my first 2 years away doing nothing but my lazyness opened my eyes and motivated me to do something and I hope admission officers see I realy want this and that I can do it.

I want to study Business Finance!!

Schools of interest: (in order)
Florida State
Syracuse
South Florida
Penn State
Rutgers
University of Tampa
and of course
UPenn haha let me have my moment

Thank you all very much for spending your time with me here and hope all the best in the future… James.