is it worth a chance? chance me.

mcjones11
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:37:31 +0000

I know its a reach but do you think its worth the ap fee?

Gender: F
Race: White
Location: Upstate NY
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Public a little under 2000
Will apply for financial aid: Yeah baby!

Academics:

GPA - Unweighted: 94.10
GPA - Weighted: i have no idea as we dont get them until mid senior year… im guessing it will be a bit better as all my classes were at least A level and im going to (hopefully) graduate with 7 AP’s (if calc doesnt kill me first)

Scores:

SAT I Math: 680
SAT I Critical Reading: 720
SAT I Writing: 630
note: im taking the sats again in oct and im hoping to up the writing (a lot) and get math into the 700s

ACT: 30

AP Bio: 5
AP Lang: 4
AP US: 4
APs this year: calc, gov, spanish, lit

Extracurriculars:

NHS (don’t be too impressed)
DECA (business club) 9/10/11
Science Olympiad 11
Camp Counselor at a sleep-away camp 9/10/11
Interhigh Council (kind of a school board/student open forum club thing) 9/10
6 years ski club 6-11
black belt in tae kwon do (but i got it when i was 11 and stopped soon after)
Work for a jewish catering company during the year (im not jewish but i can make a mean potato latka!) 9/10/11

Leadership positions:
captain jv lax and soccer both 10th
completed leader in training ymca program 9th
i feel like being a camp counselor is pretty much the most leadership anyone could ever need so ill probably find a way to throw that in there somehow
i also feel really lame for not being president/secretary/treasurer of anything… maybe ill start a club about it.

Athletic Status
jv soccer 9th and 10th
club soccer 8 years
jv lax 9th and 10th
varsity lax 11th
winter lax league 10/11
-won most improved freshman year
-won mvp defense sophomore year
indoor track 9/10
xc 11/12
club softball 9/10
note: its funny because this makes it look like im pro at lax and lame at soccer but really im awful at lax like really awful and decent at and in love with soccer. but that doesnt really matter to you haha just felt the need to put it out there.

Volunteer/Service Work: Amherst YES probably 30+ hours doing things like… 9-11
-habitat for humanity
-food bank
-library programs
-face painting
-favor making for meals on wheels

Honors and Awards:
writing and publishing award 11th grade
ap scholar - haha wooooh! suchhhhh a big deal its crazy… i know
9th place DECA state competition 11th grade
science olympiad state competitor at west point 11th grade
ymca silver ragger

heres my list so far of where I’m applying just in case your interested…
Georgetown
Colorado College
Kenyon
Boston College
Whitman
University of Vermont
Suny Geneseo
Denison

thanks so much!