Chance an anxious junior please :)

tennis28
Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:59:20 +0000

Thanks for reviewing! Any advice or anything is welcome…

White Female, PA
Junior
Major: Anthropology

Weighed GPA: 4.174
UW GPA: N/A

SATs (taken for 1st time w/o studying): 1990
Math - 690
Writing - 680
Reading - 620
*I’m going to retake this to raise it.

APs: APUSH, *Euro, Eng Lang., *Eng Lit., *Bio
*Senior year
(can only take APs starting junior year at my school)

Honors: English (10), Spanish (12) – my school only offers four/five

I know I’m definitely in the top 20% of my class, and not too far from the top of about 250 students

ECs:
~Science Club (9/10/11)
~Spanish Club (9/10/11)
~Book/Teen Club (6 → )
~Teen Advisory Board of Library (8 → )
~Volunteer at library: at least 100 hours
~Newspaper (10/11) (Politics Editor (11))
~Spanish Honors Society member (since 10th…running for pos. senior year)
~NHS (11 -->)
~Marching Band Student Manager (10 → 12)
~Volunteer @ hospital (almost 50 hours)
~Charity Walks:
…Walk Now for Autism
…CF Walk
…Make a Wish Foundation Walk
~Was in the Gifted program from K → 8 (whole span of program available, if it makes a difference at all).
~Was nominated by my school to the Congressional Page program (ended up not doing it, though.)
~participated in a Downtown Vibrancy Project (where our suggestions and evaluations led to changes in one of the most frequented areas of our city)
~attended Health Career Academy two summers ago
~attended a very good (local) university’s Law and Forensics Science workshop (Summer 2010)
~attending an International Affairs Apprenticeship this fall

~Occasionally worked as waitress @ aunt’s church functions and cleaning apartments
~Part time job at a restaurant: hostessing 9 - 12 hours a week

Leadership:
~Band: Student Manager
~Newspaper: one of the editors for 11th grade, running again for managing editor 12th grade
~planning on running for officer positions in Spanish/Science clubs next year