How is my HS Resume?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>4.0 GPA (All Honors, no APs)
26 ACT (going to work hard this summer to improve this!)</p>

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<li><p>Volunteered at local library for 3 years</p>

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<li>learned the inner workings and was in charge of entire adult department</li>
<li>showed leadership by offering changes and suggestions to improve efficiency</li>
<li>participated and played major role in library events like book sales and cultural events</li>
</ul></li>
<li><p>Member of my school’s National Honors Society for 2 years</p>

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<li>participated and presented in NHS meetings with the goal to improve my community and school</li>
<li>launched weekly tutoring service for students in all core subjects - tutored nearly 700 students</li>
<li>in second year, was promoted to President of NHS</li>
<li>continued tutoring service in second, launched online lesson series teaching students about:</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>how to succeed in high school
study skills, time management, test taking, etc.
college – act/sat prep, applications, letters of rec, what matters, picking the right one</p>

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<li><p>invited, recruited, and trained new members</p>

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<li>Will be Student mentor for 1 year</li>
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<li><p>So far, 3 confirmed freshmen students for 2013-14</p></li>
<li><p>will teach them about online (My high school is online) and high school success</p></li>
<li><p>will communicate through email, livelesson (our online classroom system), and telephone</p></li>
<li><p>will hopefully receive many praise letters from teachers and students </p></li>
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<p>I have many colleges in my list, but University of Michigan Ann Arbor is my dream school. I know that I need to improve my ACT stat (or take an SAT), but any ideas on what else should I do? Thanks!</p>

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<p>Hey, you have very good stats and ECs. I am also hoping to attend UofM but am held down due to my ACT score. Also, can you give me your feedback on my resume? </p>

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.):LSA
[ *] SAT (one sitting):NA
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent):NA
[ *] ACT:25 ( retaking in September, hopefully it will be a 28+. Also any advice?)
[ *] weighted GPA:3.83
[ *] Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): Total of 7 AP classes over high school career: AP HUG(4), APES(5), Senior year course load: AP Lit, AP Calc, AP Gov, AP BIO, and AP World History. Took honors chemistry and honors algebra and geometry
[ *] Rank: top 20% I believe.
[ *]: Awards: Tutoring award, Charger Award (school award), Academic Achievement, AP Award (5 or more ap classes), First donor award, and other little ones
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):I have 200+ hours at a hospital (This was just in one summer) and i volunteered about 30 hours for religious duties. Other volunteer hours include cleaning up local parks, tutoring, and school service. Wrestling varsity (4 Years, 2 years captain) Football (1 year, captain), Baseball (1 year), NHS, Link Crew, Student Congress, and SADD. Worked all 3 summers. First summer freshman year I was a technician assistant at mechanic shop. Next two summers I worked at a store. I was involved in many environmental clean up programs.
[ *] Essays:Good
[ *] Teacher Recs:Good
[ *] Counselor Rec: Good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):First generation, good amount of ECs and good letters of recommendation.
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country:Michigan
[ *] School Typeublic
[ *] Ethnicity:Middle Eastern
[ *] Gender:Male
[ *] major strength/weakness: First Gen, HUGE upward trend, good stories for my essays.
[ *] Other Factors/questions: What can i do to improve my resume. I know my ACT score is on the low end but excluding that, how good of a chance do I have? Also can i list awards I didn’t get in high school?</p>

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<p>Your EC’s are kind of weak, not too be offensive. If you have more EC’s, please divulge them.</p>

<p>Your GPA is good, but not taking AP classes suggests that 1) you were not capable of handling AP classes 2) you did not want the extra workload.</p>

<p>Colleges always want you to challenge yourself.</p>

<p>And you should probably take the SAT too, just to see if you do better. A 26 ACT corresponds to an 1800 SAT. </p>

<p>Take all of this with a grain of salt though, I am only 16 and a rising senior, so I can’t pretend to know everything. </p>

<p>By the way, could you chance me back? I would really appreciate it :slight_smile: </p>

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