President's Scholarship semifinalist!

zebes
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:34:37 +0000

D’s letter was in mailbox today. Postmarked 23rd, I think. She submitted application 9/30. Stats follow:

female
O.O.S.
top 1% (~500) school won’t tell number rank 'til graduation, unofficially we’ve been informed she’s current valedectorian.
4.0 GPA (4.68 w)
11 AP classes: (AP Bio 5, AP chem 4, Ap World 5, APUSH 5, APLang 4, AP Art History 4)

senior schedule:
AP Calc b/c
AP physics b
AP Lit
AP Gov
AP Economics
H anatomy/physiology
teaching assist. chem
(first 9 weeks, straight A’s)

SAT: 740 math, 700 cr, 600 writing
SAT II: 770 math II, 740 chem
ACT: 35/36 (math 36, reading 36)

NHS
BETA
Epsilon Nu Gamma (English honorary)
letter in Varsity slow-pitch softball
tutor

Student Leadership University 101 (week long seminars in Orlando with business leaders
Student Leadership University 201 (week long seminars in D.C. with political, business, and military leaders)
Student Leadership 301 (seminars in London, Oxford, Paris, Normondy with international business, political and military leaders)

-two years youth intern for 3-year old Sunday School class
-100+ community service hours through local church
-two mission trips to Bahamas (orphanages/schools dealing with character counts program and maintenance work)
-student led mission trip to Brazil (dramas and speaking dealing with depression, suicide, drug use, etc in schools)

two years pd. caregiver (several times/mo.) for g’ma with mid to end-stage alzhiemer’s: dressing, bathing, feeding, toileting, etc.