Chance me? Will chance back :)

angeBunny
Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:42:43 +0000

Chance for:
Yale
Dartmouth
Claremont McKenna
Bowdoin
Carleton
Willamette
University of Redands

Hispanic female, English was learned as a second language (I’m fluent in it now), first-gen college student, from CA. High school sends about 2-3 Ivies per class.

Freshman:
Honors English A/A
AP Spanish 4 A/A-
Honors Geometry B-/C
Honors Biology B/B+
Health (Required) A+
Comp Op (Required) A+

Sophomore:
Honors English B+/A-
AP Spanish 5 A/A
AP European History A/A
Honors Alg II/Trig B/C-
Honors Chemistry B-/C

Junior:
Honors English B+/B+
Honors Pre-Cal C/C
Intro. Stats A/A
AP USH A/A
Creative Writing A/A
World Language TA A/A

Senior Year Schedule:
AP Gov./AP Econ (One semester each)
AP English Lit
CA History
Reg. Physics
Drama II (Auditioned for class)
Journalism

~Unweighted GPA: 3.5

~Weighted GPA: 3.8


Tests Taken
*AP Spanish Lang: 5
*AP Euro: 3
*AP USH: 3


-Top 16% of class. 74 out of 461

-Took SAT once
*Math: 680
*Writing: 680
*Reading: 750
*Composite: 2110

-SAT IIs

Literature: 710

Spanish w/ Listening: 750-800? (Took on the 11/5)

US History: 640 (re-took on 11/5)

ECs!:

JV Swimming: 10th and 11th grades, 16 hrs per week

School Newspaper: Copy editor

Volunteer at a non-profit secondhand shop for the American Cancer Society: 48 hours of 2010 summer

Awards:
-National Hispanic Scholar
-JV Girls’ Most Improved Award (11th grade) Is it even worth the mention? It meant a lot to me, but will it sound sad in an app?

-Essays’ll be highlighting the amount of independence and self-motivation I’ve had in dealing with my immigrant parents in terms of both my high school education and the college search/apps process. Y/N as a topic?

-Rec letters from:
AP Euro and APUSH teacher. At the start of Euro he pulled me out of class to tell me he could see me at Harvard (naive, imo) and a month ago told me to come to him for any rec letter. He wrote me one for my school’s leadership program, it spoke very highly.
(Foreign Lang. Department Head. I had her for Spanish 4AP, 5AP, and I TA’d for her this last year. OR *AP Lit teacher: I’m currently the highest scorer in her class, and I had her last year the Creative Writing. Still not sure who to ask.)