"Chance me" +advice!

bluesclues99
Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:50:19 +0000

Okay so I’m a junior this year but my Dad is taking me to visit uPenn, Villanova, LeHigh etc. next weekend. I’m skeptical about visiting Penn because at this point I’m not sure I have the depth their looking for to get in…
If anyone could give me any advice at all to help better my application this last semester?

***OH and I’m in IB, does this make any difference?

SAT: 710 M/ 690 CR/ 650 W
2050 total
I have yet to take the ACT or SAT II’s, is it really important that I do?
GPA: 3.78 Unweighted, somewhere around 4.4 weighted
Rank: 60/650

I took AP World last year (Failed the exam-2) and AP studio this year, however the rest of my classes are IB which i’ve been told are counted as the same. My schedule this year:
Newspaper- A
IB Eng- A
IB Math Studies- A
AP Studio/IB Studio- A
IB Spanish 4- A
IB Economics - B
IB Chemistry- A

-VP Habitat for Humanity (A friend of mine and I actually just started this club this semester, but are hoping to do great things with it)
-National Honor Society
-Varsity Swimming my Freshman, Sophomore, and Senior Year (I quit for a year to pursue other things, 10 practices a week was getting to be too much, but I’ll swim high school for my senior year)
-Volunteered at an Aquarium all sophomore year
-I’ve worked at Outback for a year and a half
-National Art Honor Society
-Double Truck Editor of School Newspaper- appointed for junior and senior year
-Internship with a local newspaper called the Pelican press, all i do is take photos involving students though, started december 2010

An IB requirement is to have 250 total creative, service, and action hours (this include community service, sports, workshops etc.) So although Ill have a lot of community service, its not necessarily in-depth.

What can i do in this short period of time to make this better?
I want to go into Communications/Marketing/Advertising in college!

THANKS SO MUCH