<p>My freshman year, first semester, I had very poor grades. This was partly due to the serious illness and hospilization of my dad for two months. He was very close to dying, but now he is very healthy. Taking this and my upward trend into consideration, can I still get into Temple University with an 28 ACT composite score and very good EC’s? </p>
<p>GPA’s written next to semesters include electives and other grades</p>
<p>FRESHMAN YEAR, S1, 3.8
English Honors- A
Geometry Honors- B
Biology Honors- A
Civics Honors- A
Spanish Honors- A</p>
<p>FRESHMAN YEAR, S2, 2.5
English Honors- B
Geometry Honors- C
Biology Honors- D
Civics Honors- C
Spanish Honors- A</p>
<p>ahhhhh!!! I cringed, typing that. </p>
<p>SOPHOMORE YEAR, S1, 3.4
English Honors- A
Algebra 2- A
Chemistry Honors- B
World History Honors- B
Spanish Honors- B</p>
<p>SOPHOMORE YEAR, S2, 3.8
English Honors- A
Algebra 2- B
Chemistry Honors- A
World History Honors- A
Spanish Honors- B</p>
<p>JUNIOR YEAR, S1, 3.5
English AP- A
Trig Honors- C
Physics Honors- A
US History AP- B
Spanish Honors- A</p>
<p>JUNIOR YEAR, S2, 4.0
English AP- A
Advanced General Math- A
Physics Honors- A
US History AP- A
Spanish Honors- A</p>
<p>SENIOR YEAR- Courseload
English AP
US Gov AP
Pyschology AP
Bio 2 AP
Spanish Honors</p>
<p>EC’S- (Desired major- Journalism)
- Legislative Intern at Local City Council Office- wrote legislation on increasing gun control, diminishing puppy mills, and ridding the city of a monopoly phone company. My legislation became law in the city of Pittsburgh. I had to interview and apply for this position and ended up beating out two college students applying for the same position. </p>
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<li><p>Intern for local news station- I traveled to local HS basketball and football games and reported on them for the website</p></li>
<li><p>Regional High School Coordinator for Joseph Sestak’s Campaign for US Senate- directed the organization of local youth involvement in canvassing and phone banking.</p></li>
<li><p>Official Barack Obama Campaign HQ Office Intern- canvassed for Barack Obama for 45 hours during the election season, including 12 straight hours on election day in Pittsburgh’s most dangerous neigborhood at night. </p></li>
<li><p>Editor-in-Chief of “Local Award Winning” School Newspaper- worked 5 hours a week improving paper and editing each story.</p></li>
<li><p>Local Chapter Vice President of Nationally Recognized Religious Organization- worked 2 hours per week designing programs that benefit the community</p></li>
<li><p>Student Council Rep</p></li>
<li><p>Friendship Circle Mentor- mentored and spent a Saturday afternoon on many weekends with a local mentally challanged student. Often times, I took the student bowling or to the movies or taught he/she the rules of baseball at a local park.</p></li>
<li><p>Teacher’s Aide at Religious School- work 2 hours a week assisting local religious school teachers for grades 1 and 2. </p></li>
<li><p>NHS member- Junior and Senior Year</p></li>
<li><p>Frequent volunteer at local senior center</p></li>
<li><p>Held one job during the school year and one in the summer between high school</p></li>
<li><p>Played baseball and hockey in HS- did not letter however</p></li>
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<p>Awards Won-
- Local magazine featured me in an article about youth volunteers
- School award- Excellence in academics
- School award- Excellence in citizenship
- High Honor or Honor every semester in high school
- Honorable Mention at PA state competition of Youth and Gov’t</p>
<p>Essay- excellent…about how the election of Barack Obama affected me in discovering that anyone (a minority like myself) could be elected POTUS. </p>
<p>Letter of Recs- one from my favorite Honors Spanish teacher and one from my counselor who is a family friend so they are both amazing. Also, I recieved one from the City Council President that I interned for. He typed it and placed on official city “letter head” and signed it.</p>