Chance Me (a junior with some big dreams)

willsworld
Mon, 05 Apr 2021 18:58:59 +0000

OMG hey y’all…

BACKGROUND
Location: Suburb of Chicago
School: Medium/Large Public High school (Class size of around 500+)
Ethnicity/Race: I am 50% European on my fathers side and I am 50% Hispanic (specifically Argentinian) on my mothers side, unknown really since she was adopted and never knew her parents. I am white as well
Gender/Sexuality: I am a cisgendered male. Honestly confused with my sexuality at the point lol
Family Income: My family is in the range where we wont get any money form FASFA but I still have to take a major consideration into the cost of my education (like the MIDDLE of Middle Income lol). I have been saving up for a while now and I know that my parents have saved for me as well but I am still applying to some scholarships.
Perspective Major or Minor: I want to study Poli Sci, International Relations, Math or Engineering (still figuring that stuff out)

EDUCATION AND STATS
So my school has a UW GPA out of 4.0, and my schools grades on the A,B,C scale so and A would be anywhere around a 90-100+ (No A- or A+ i that makes sense).
GPA: 3.95 UW/ 4.58 W
CLASS RANK: my school does percentile ranking and doesn’t reveal that until senior year…but i asked my counselor and he said I am currently in the top 3% so 15/500
AP CLASSES:
FRESHMAN-AP HUM GEO (4)
SOPHOMORE- APUSH (4)
JUNIOR- AP CALC BC, AP CHEM, AP LANG, AP MICRO, AP GOVT (taking tests this year)
SENIOR- AP STATS, AP PHYSICS, AP LIT, AP PHYCOLOGY, AP SPANISH
I have taken/ will be taking the hardest classes that my school offers and this is the most AP classes I am allowed to take at my school given my current “track” I am on. No my school does not offer dual-enrollment so this is what I got lol.
PSAT: 1450 (probably not high enough for Merit Finals)
NO SAT RN (taking it next week and ACT in June)

EXTRACURRICULARS
Clubs: Student Council (Sophomore Class president and will be running for Student Council President this year)
Key Club- volunteering (will be running for VP with my friend who is running for President)
Black Student Alliance- help with school equity and inclusion, have district wide talks about racism (will be running for a leadership position)
Organization of Latin America Students- same as BSA
Falcon’s Edge- helps lower income and minority students with their college search process, connecting with colleges individually to understand the importance of higher education and allowing other kids to push for their dreams (founder of the club )
Red Cross Club- works with the Red Cross to conduct fundraising and training sessions for students and teachers
Show Choir- like glee on steroids. My group (Flight) is a nationally recognized show choir competing across the nation getting top 5 at our national competition (HUGE commitment)
Book- in the works Im in the process of writing a book with my friend (i do the research and writing and she does the drawing) that tells the stories of some of US most influential Hispanics, will be self-publishing this summer
Job- I have been a Swim Instructor for the past 4 years since I was 13, and was an Religious Education aid for Kindergarten since i was 13 (the Aide is a volunteering like 120+ hours a year). I also run the small thing in my town where I take care of peoples houses during vacations (work with like 20-35 families)

AWARDS:
Spanish Honor Society
Math Honor Society
Speech and Debate Honor Society (get inducted my freshman year but was unable to continue my speech career due to other conflicts…still apart of the Honor Society though)
National Honor Society
Link Crew Leader (like helping freshman come to school, only like 15 students get chosen for it)
Cross our fingers Bank of America Student Leader (finds out the 9th if I get in)
Show Choir Awards which doesn’t really count lol
Hopefully more to come

(Somewhat important info, there is almost this gap in my sophomore year cause my sister was diagnosed with thyroid cancer *she is all good now * I needed to help my parents and basically live by myself for a couple of months)

Currently started my essays and they are looking pretty good so far

LETTER OF REC
Getting one from my sophomore English teacher
one from my Calc BC teacher (shows my growth as I went from a low B to an A. Met with her a lot and she knows how hard i worked for it)

COLLEGES I AM THINKING ABOUT
Some IVY’s: Brown, Yale, Columbia, and Dartmouth
UCs: UCLA, UCI, UCB (UC GPA is around a 4.13 UW and 4.69 W I think that is how it works but I am not 100% sure)
U of Michigan, UNC, Emory, Bowdoin, but lmk if you think of any other schools

First of all, thank you for reading this…It really means a lot to me that you are taking the time to help me with the college search. This means so much to me and I can’t wait to hear everyone’s ideas. <3 also apologize if it was a lot to read, there is more to add but I didn’t want to overwhelm you reading this