<p>White, female, I attend an urban public high school in Michigan, a magnet school for math and science that typically sends a handful of kids to Ivies, and I’m dual-enrolled at Western Michigan University</p>
<p>SAT I:
Reading - 800
Math - 760
Writing - 700 </p>
<p>SAT II:
U.S. History - 800
Literature - 730</p>
<p>AP:
9th grade - Lang & Comp (5), Lit & Comp (5)
10th grade - U.S. History (5)
11th grade - European History (5), Computer Science (4), Physics B (3) [although with physics, my teacher specifically told us that he wouldn’t prepare us for the exam, I only took it because my school district requires all AP-enrolled students to take the exams]
12 grade - Calculus AB, Statistics, U.S. Government</p>
<p>I would have taken more AP courses my sophomore year, but they weren’t available to underclassmen.</p>
<p>AP Scholar with Distinction, National Merit Commended Student, various local academic awards</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.92, Weighted: 4.32
GPA at Western Michigan University: 4.0 over four semesters</p>
<p>ECs:
Spent over 160 hours volunteering as a field staffer for a campaign to pass a local gay/trans* rights ordinance as a sophomore - much of my time was spent training volunteers, organizing canvasses, and supervising phone banks. I also helped organize a successful local Walk For Choice</p>
<p>Member of my high school’s Gay-Straight Alliance all four years of high school, member of its executive board for two years</p>
<p>National Honors Society communications officer</p>
<p>Internship with a local progressive non-profit dedicated to consumer advocacy, educating voters, and getting underrepresented groups (LGBTQ+ community, people of color, single women, etc.) to the polls (400+ hours since June 2010)</p>
<p>Published as a poet by Lee Honors College of Western Michigan University in their annual literary magazine</p>
<p>Spent three years working with a professor at WMU grading the research papers of her eighth, ninth, and tenth grade students</p>
<p>Spent seven years as a judge of the Kalamazoo Community Literary Awards specializing in poetry and youth short story</p>
<p>Member of the American Computer Science League’s Classroom Division championship team (in addition to participating in several other programming and computational linguistics competitions)</p>
<p>Do you guys think I’ve got a chance?</p>