chance me for gwu honors/elliott

hbs628
Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:22:20 +0000

Jewish male from Long Island
Private, religious school

gpa: 3.9 (unweighted)
school doesn’t rank
sats: 2200 (CR 670, M 730, W 800 - 12 essay)
sat ii: MII: 750, USH: 700, PHYSICS: Find out Wednesday
ACT: 32 (32 english, 34 math, 30 reading, 28 science, 11 writing)
AP: 9 total (11th art history (5), US (5), english language (5), 12th physics b, calculus bc, english lit, us government, macroecon, microecon)

essays:
common app: how I love art despite being colorblind
honors supplement - active citizenship: how I took an arabic course in Israel and learned to get over racial barriers despite what I had learned in school, etc.

recs: no idea, haven’t read them. presumably very good.

awards: national merit commended student, ap scholar, aju book award, some art prizes

ecs
-fluent in hebrew, proficient in arabic, and comprehensive in spanish
-volunteer for hillary clinton for president
-took an arabic course at hebrew univeristy in jerusalem
-theater: performed in seussical, bye bye birdie, pippin and fiddler on the roof (last one completely in hebrew)
-applied for 2 internships: one at sen charles schumer’s doing constituent relations, one at the israeli consulate doing translation work
-spanish club founder and co-pres
-math tutor and bar mitzvah tutor
some other schtuff i can’t recall at the moment

yeah, let me know.