Could someone please chance me? :)

jobes
Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:56:28 +0000

Age: 17
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: African-American
Location: MD
School: prestigious private college prep school. Sends about 10-20% of graduating class to ivy league schools every year
UW GPA: 94.78
SAT: 2090 (CR 630, Math 740, Writing 720)
Best Scores: 2170 (CR 670, Math 740, Writing 760)
SAT II: Chem: 750, Spanish 740, Math II: 720
APs Taken: Spanish Language, Physics B
Honors Courses: Algebra II, Geometry/Trig, Precalculus, Biology, Chemistry
Senior year courses: AP Bio, AP Physics C, AP Calculus BC, Spanish 5 honors, Photography major, English 12 (our school only offers one level of english per year)

I’m a 3 sport varsity athlete. I have played 9 continuous seasons of sports so far since i started high school. (three years so far)
Volleyball: Most Improved Player junior year, captain for senior year
Basketball: Most Improved Player freshman year
Track: MVP junior year, broke school record
I was also selected to our school’s honorary athletic association and later elected president as a junior.

I was selected to be one of 26 upperclassmen for a freshman mentoring program as a sophomore and elected president junior year.

I’ve been on my yearbook’s staff for 3 years so far, gaining the position of an editor for my junior year and senior year.

I am also an active member of my school’s Black Student Union and am now the club’s Treasurer.

I don’t know whether to mention somewhere in my application that I did tae kwon do for nine years and received a black belt because I stopped winter of freshman year (it was too much to handle with sports practices and karate at the same time.)

I have also volunteered about 150 hours so far at both a Children’s nature camp and Georgetown University Hospital

I am interested in pursuing a career in medicine, possibly some type of surgeon. (I am interested in neuroscience) I would most likely be majoring in psychology - preferably the more scientific side of psychology.

These are the school’s I’m currently looking at:

Boston College
Columbia
Cornell
Duke
George Washington
Harvard (I’m just applying to please my parents really)
Johns Hopkins
Penn
Princeton
Swarthmore
Trinity College (CT)

Please chance me. I’ll do you too!