Chance..Average Academics, Above Average e/c

denboi486
Fri, 08 Nov 2013 02:02:24 +0000

Hi,
What are my chances for Georgetown Walsh, or any comparable schools (yale, bu,tufts, gwu, american, jhu, unc-chap hill, W&M, umich, virginia, ucla, ucsd, pomona) you guys can think of

GPA: 3.7/4.5
Class size: 640
AP: Statistics (4), Art History (5), European History (4), Psychology (5), U.S History (5), Chinese (5), Calculus AB (4), Government, Econ
IB: Psychology HL, Chinese SL, History HL, Chemistry SL, Math SL, English HL
SAT: M:770, CR: 760, W:750
SAT II: Math II(800), U.S History (800), Chinese
School doesn’t want people to feel bad so it doesn’t rank.
My schedule is pretty much the hardest possible at my school and I exhausted the upper level classes, that being said I didn’t do fantastic in them.

Recs:
English/Theory of Knowledge Teacher: 8/10
Stats/Compsci/tennis coach: 9/10
Administrator/Athletic Coordinator:10/10

Sports:
Tennis: 3 varsity, principal scholar athlete etc. Captain senior year
Football: 1 varsity, 1 JV, O-line captain, tutored freshmen football team
Basketball: 2 years JV
Wrestling: 1 year varsity

ECs: not listing all of them just major ones
Global Design Science Lab: designed a long term energy solution that was presented to UNDP & UNECOSOC, published paper

Students Transforming Education: State Director for an organization (read: Political Action Committee) that advocates students rights in education. Headed initiative to obtain 10,000 signature in favor of permanent status reform

Congressional Youth Debate Committee: Chaired committee that planned and sponsored a debate between candidates for CA-26 house seat. Raised $5000 in corporate sponsorships

Class President and VP: made $14,000 in one year letting many people attend senior activities for free
School Site Council Member: 10-12 grades

JSA: Region Director of PR

FBLA: 3rd place in CA for Management Decision Making, 2nd in section for BusLaw

Recycling Club: this just screams a club started for college but i’m actually super passionate about this and wrote one of my essays on this so yea.
I obtained a grant from the city to purchase the ridiculously expensive recycling bins and run a program for the school. Participated in a school waste audit and was the model for the rest of school district to implement

Tutoring: tutored for god knows how many hours in every subject, raised a kid from an F to a B and helped him graduate, probably the proudest moment of high school

Volunteering: volunteered at local women’s shelters, homeless shelters, rotary events, international flora festival

Mock Trial: 3 years-If you live in California, I’m from Ventura County and was the last team to beat La Reina.
Lead Attorney, Pre-trial, expert witness, 10,11,12 respectively

Model UN: Best Delegate at a few conferences, President 10 & 11

I got sloppy at the end but I’ll definitely chance back

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