Chance me for Barnard please?

Avalde4
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:52:58 +0000

SAT: 680- math
710-critical reading
720- Writing
Want to retake in December

SAT ll 770- US HIST
750- W HIST

Rank - 2/542

Unweighted GPA- 4.0
W GPA -113.78 (my school does it on a 100 scale?

Potential environmental studies, political science or English major

AP Scores- 5 US HIST, 4 Eng Lang, 4 Psychology, 4, Environmental Science, 3 world HIST

I will have taken 11 of the 20 offered AP classes by the time I graduate which is as many as my schedule allows. I’m in an arts magnet program as a creative writing major that I had to audition for and am required to have two honors g/t courses each year in my schedule for my creative writing major. I took four classes last summer to have space for AP electives which were all in core requirement areas such as pe, speech as health.

ECs:
creative writing sect of arts magnet program which includes lit mag and poetry readings
film appreciation club- highly informal and not school related in which a group of people watch a few movies and analyze them in depth for an hour or so after
Representative forum since 9th; voting rep since 11th
social studies UIL ( academic team since 9th grade.
Model UN since 9th
Animal society- 11th founding officer and treasurer
National Honor Society member since 11th.(first year available to students)
Spanish Honor Society- historian also only available to juniors and seniors
Earth club-12th
Temporarily a Texas highschool aerospace scholar participant through online NASA program

Community service- maybe 100 hours freshman and sophomore year through church groups
As I became more secular most of my community service has been through clubs and at book fairs, writing workshops or volunteering to usher plays with occasional nursing home visits maybe about 50 hours this year total

Awards- National Hispanic scholar
AP scholar with distinction
Silver key in poetry through scholastic alliance
Four poems published in 84th city library anthology. 80 chosen out of over 2000
Nominated for NCTE achievement award by English teacher
Directors award at Alamo regional science fair in physics category
Nominated by congresswoman to be a NASA TX highschool aerospace scholar

Summer Experience:
National Student Leadership Conference theater program at Fordham university
Dartmouth Bound Summer 2012 (can I even list this?)

Work:
Internship at a nonprofit arts organization downtown
Secretary and Internet advertising for my dads real estate business since he’s self employed.
This year though I worked from April to early July as a server at this restaurant called Souper salad but I quit because of inconsistent pay and a bad working condition.

I’m very worried about how I will stand in the college admissions process because of my low test scores and less than stellar community service. Most of my time is eaten away by chores (its just my dad and me) and my magnet school’s creative writing program. We do public readings every month an submit monthly to our departments literary magazine that is run by the seniors. Next year I’ll be co editor-in-chief with another student. However last year our magazine won the highest award given to lit mags by NCTE, the only one given in Texas.

Last Hooks (?)- Female Hispanic, writing ability maybe (?), go to a large inner city public high school that hosts three magnet programs
Anti hooks- will need financial aid desperately because our family income is under 40,000 a year.

So please have at the chances. Sorry for an obnoxiously long post and thank you if you got this far.

Any and everything’s appreciated.