Hi, I am half white, half Hispanic Junior boy in High School. I know this is a long shot but I have truly found myself interested in Boston University. I don’t know really where I can get into because I kind of blew it with my grades sophomore year (3.4 GPA sophomore year, 4.17 GPA Junior Year). If anyone has any other suggestions of where I could apply and potentially get into please let me know! I want to study International Relations and potentially double major in something else later on. Here is a list of some of my stats below. My district is really renowned in the Chicago Suburbs.
Stats and Info
Location: Chicago Suburbs
GPA: W-3.85 UW-3.41
SAT: TBD, results come in a couple of days.
Bilingual: Spanish and English
Certified in Spanish
Extracurricular
- Class Board starting sophomore year. Vice President junior year, President-Elect Senior year. As VP raised $1,500+ towards charity through fundraisers (as of December 2020)
- Co-Founder of the International Relations Club. Founded junior year. President junior year and will be President senior year too. My club is working on pairing up pen pals in Spain. The main goal of the club is to encourage my classmates to expand their general knowledge and conflicts abroad, something that we Americans lack sometimes.
- Nominated by the school principal to represent our High School to the District Superintendent and School Board President. I am one of two students from my school of 2K students and one of twelve from the whole district of 12,000 students.
- Investment Club Competition Chair Board Junior year, planning district-wide competition.
- DECA starting freshman year to present. Received multiple awards.
- Fishing Club starting freshman year to present
- Model UN starting Junior year
- Elevate (school organization on personal wellbeing)
- Nominated to serve on Spanish Book Committee. Worked on organizing a section in our school library of books in Spanish. Our school is 25%+ Hispanic.
- Track, freshman year-present
- Varsity Cheer, junior year-present, Have been approached to be team captain for the 2022 comp season. Our team this year (2021) got 4th in the state.
Job Experience
Babysitting 2016-present
Pool attendant and Office assistant 2019, Front Desk for Apartment Complex 2020-present. These jobs are through the same company.
Classes
A mix of Honors, regular, AP’s, and Dual-Credit.
AP’s
AP Human Geography (freshman year) - score = 4
AP World History (sophomore year) - score = 4
AP Spanish Language - currently taking
AP U.S. History - currently taking
Senior year AP’s
AP Spanish Lit
AP Economics, Micro and Macro
AP Politics, U.S. Gov and Politics and Comparative Government
Dual Credit
College Algebra - currently taking
College Business (Business 101) - currently taking
Senior year Dual-Credit
College Stats
Middle Eastern Politics
College Speech
College Composition
Worst grade’s
C first semester of Geometry (freshman year)
C’s both semesters of Algebra II (sophomore year)
Again, if anyone has any other school suggestions, let me know!
I know it doesn’t necessarily matter where you go to school but I’d prefer a “Name Brand” school located in a city.