<p>Hi everyone! I really want to know how I stack up since the schools I’m interested in are really competitive. I’m a rising junior so nothing is set in stone yet, but I’d like to be chanced all the same 
I’m conflicted about where to apply ED (which I will), and I’ve narrowed my choices for ED down to Cornell HumEc, Johns Hopkins, and Northwestern (also applying RD to UMich, Purdue, Notre Dame, NYU, Wellesley, and U Wisconsin-Madison). I plan on getting a summer job and a public health internship this year, and will probably have more things to add in the future. BUTTT I’m really really worried about something! Sophomore year, my friend and I took concurrent enrollment courses at UIUC and we were doing well in our classes and got complacent and stopped going…and ended up with D’s…We plan on retaking the classes in the spring of our senior years, and definitely will be writing supplementary essays explaining how at 15 years of age, we didn’t realize the consequences of our actions, and how now we really understand how easy it is to get in over your heads and lose focus. We’ve both talked to our college counselor about this, and she’s been really supportive and plans on helping us out with our situation as much as she can. I know if we actually try our best we can both get at least a B+ when we retake the class (mine was Intro Food Science and Nutrition). But yeah…I feel like I’ve ruined my chances for admissions into ‘good’ colleges, and I have no one to blame for this but myself :/</p>
<p>-I go to a Newsweek Public Elite High School (think Stuy, but I go to one in Illinois)
-No rankings and no GPA weighting at our school, but my Cumulative UW GPA is a 3.88
-I’m taking the SAT in Jan, and am pretty sure it will be around ~2200
-Math II 760, will be taking Bio E and Literature in summer</p>
<p>EC’s
-Research Assistant at Landscape and Human Health Lab at UIUC
-Entrepreneurial Leadership in STEM Teaching and Learning (basically we volunteer our time to teach science concepts to kids at local elementary schools)
-Inexpensive Chic (Fashion Blog)Contributing Writer
-SSAT Tutoring Program–Leader (this is a volunteer program run by me and three others, where we offer free SSAT tutoring to underrepresented minority kids; the SSAT is an admissions test used by our high school)
-Cattle Bank Restoration Team (I was a part of the team that worked to redesign and reopen our local historical museum, the Cattle Bank)
-Carle Foundation Hospital Teen Summer Volunteer
-Unique (school literary magazine) Team
-Habitat for Humanity Club Member
-Ballet (though I just started this year >.<, I plan on continuing through college, it’s something I’ve always wanted to do as a little girl)</p>
<p>Awards
-I haven’t taken the PSAT yet since its not time yet, but I will probably at least be commended
-Gold Level on National Spanish Exam ('11), and Silver Level on National Spanish Exam ('12)
-Does NaNoWriMo count (lolll?)
-Iris Chang-Peter Kolodziej School Wide Fiction Writing Award
-Fingers crossed that I’ll be a Illinois state scholar (>.<)
-One of my poems was published in this anthology, I’ll have to look it up because I completely forgot about it</p>