please don't be mad but...

toffee
Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:48:06 +0000

it’s a chances thread. SORRY! i know swarthmore is a long shot but i really like it. and i’m excited to take classes w/ phil weinstein but my stats especially gpa and rank just aren’t very good.

GPA:~4.0 weighted (my public HS is top 2 or 3 in cali) my unweighted is 3.68. um…my ranking is 100 something/300 something. i know. i know. but most of my b’s are in math/science area.

APUS: 5
AP Bio: 4 (I thought this was okay until I looked at the AP forums!)
AP Calc AB, AP Lit, and AP Spanish Senior year.

SAT I: (only taken once in March, waiting for retake in Dec.): w: 740 cr: 800 m: 670
SAT II:
Lit: 770
US Hist: 770
Math IC: 580 (ouch, long story) shoud I take the IC so as not to leave this blemish on my record? my math is shaky at best.
Writing: 790

Extracurrics:
School newspaper (Section Editor)
National magazine:Served as political correspondent by attending New Hampshire primaries and writing articles on politics)
Soundings School Literary Magazine
ASB (Head Commissioner of Newsletter)
Mosaic Newspaper
Cupertino Historical Society
Stanford Sociology/Psychology intern
Children’s Discovery Museum
Sedgwick Autistic Program (Received Outstanding Service Award)
Yang-Ching Chinese Percussion
Studio 10 Dance
Fong Art Studio
Grail Family services (Illustrated children’s novel to promote literacy)
Villa Montalvo (Received “Exceptional Service Award” )
Key Club
Chinese School
Honors/Awards:
1st prize, Third New Century International Youth Fine Art Contest Committee
Your Magazine—won essay contest; invited to write for the magazine and website, covering the primary elections in New Hampshire
Ladies Home Journal; Wrote article that was published on primary election visit
1st place winner, World Journal International Art Contest (11); Published in newspaper
Poetic Power-in Celebrations of Young Poets book
TeenInk Poetry Journal
Mosaic Journalism workshop-Most Accurate Reporting, accepted into the workshop (only 20 from Bay Area). Work appeared in Nuevo Mundo and San Jose Mercury News

i really want to go to swat, but other top choices are wellesley and bryn mawr. yep. all reaches.