Chance a hopeful Junior?

futurewake
Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:27:50 +0000

Hey, my name is Sarah I’m a current Junior in a new public high school with no reputation. Last year we had our first graduating class and 50% went on to either the local community college or UNC-G, which anyone can get into.

Caucasian Female
North Carolina

UW GPA as of Sophomore Year: 3.85/4.00
W GPA as of Sophomore Year: 4.78
Top 4.7% of my class (15/317) and rising every year

Freshman Course-load (3.71/4.0 – 4.57/4.85)
Honors Algebra 2 (A)
Honors Chemistry (B)
AP World History (B) 4
Honors English 9 (A)
Honors Biology (A)
Spanish 1 (A)
PE/Health 1 (A)

Sophomore Course-load (4.0/4.0 – 5.0/5.0)
AP Statistics (A) 4
AP Psychology (A) 5
Honors English 10 (A)
Honors Civics/Econ (A)
Spanish 2 (A)
Dance 1 (A)

Junior Course-load (Should be all A’s) (4.0/4.0 – 5.5/5.5)
AP US History
AP Government
AP English Language
Honors Pre-Calc
Honors Spanish 3
Honors Anatomy/Physiology

Projected Senior Course-load (If all A’s 4.0/4.0 – 5.6/5.6)
AP Calculus AB… possibly BC
AP Literature
AP Human Geography
AP European History
Honors Earth/Environmental
Honors Spanish 4

Extra-Curricular
Engineering Club (9, teacher moved schools and no one would take over, so it was disbanded)
-President, only female member
-90+ hours over the summer working at a local college with mechanical and chemical engineers
-Participated in Siemens competition, topic was biodegradable plastics
-2 hours a week during the school year

Competitive Cheerleading (7-12)
-Captain 2 years
-Won Most Improved, Coaches Award, and Most Valuable (as of right now)
-Have been on 1 or 2 teams a year, winning several regional, state, and national titles.
5 hours a week not including outside exercise and conditioning, and 7 competitions a year)

Special Education Cheerleading Team (10-12)
-Help a team for girls with a variety of mental and physical disabilities. 2 hours a week, plus weekends where we exhibition at local competitions.

Beta Club (10-12)
-Member, hopefully becoming an officer soon

National Honor Society (Hopefully 11-12)

Habitat for Humanity Club Member
-1 hour a week not including work days and other volunteering activities

-I’m also going to begin tutoring, my peers will be after school and for free while children it will most likely be a paid position. I babysit a little boy with a learning disability and will probably tutor him as well.

Thinking about applying to
UNC-Chapel Hill
Wake Forest
Duke University
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Northwestern University
Any others you think I should look for?