PUH-LEEEEEEEAZE chanse mea

ilikecollage
Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:10:45 +0000

I’m a junior at a NE boarding school.

Here are my stats:
Freshman (2.89): Art B-, English C+, Religion B-, Precalc A-, Latin II B-, Physics B+
Sophomore (3.33): AP BC Calc- A, Biology B, English A-, World History B+, Religion B, Latin III B
Junior (3.41): AP US History B (really hard class, our valedictorian got a B+), Latin IV B+, Honors Chem B+, AP Physics (C) B+, Multivariable Calc A-, American Lit A-

EC’s
Freshman: Concert Band (clarinet), Clarinet lessons, Debate Team, V Cross Country, V Nordic Skiing, JV Track
Sophomore: Choir (tenor), Debate Team, V Cross Country, managed JV Swimming while training for track, Winter musical, V Track, Voice lessons, piano lessons
Junior: Selective singing group (won’t give the name cuz that’d give away my school), Choir, Debate Team, Voice Lessons, District Choir

Scores:
AP: BC Calc- 5. Physics C-probably 4’s on both tests US History - definitely 5, I wrecked it
SAT (will retake): 2060 math: 700, CR: 640, Writing: 720

Misc.
I’m halfway through a CTY Linear Algebra course, so I’m going to finish that this summer and take Differential Equations.
I run year round. My 5K time is 16:40 on a grass/dirt course. My school doesn’t really have a great distance running program, so my coach just let me do my own thing in XC. I’ll probably stress this in the recruiting forms, because I’m sure I could be a lot better with decent coaching.
I might wrestle next winter and not run track (I’m not good at short distances anyway, so I’d just use the time to train for XC).
I got some award for writing sophomore year (1 given out per grade) and one for math this year (1 per class).
And I’m going to get a part-time summer job in a few weeks.
And I don’t know if this matters, but I’ve been teaching myself to play blues guitar.
I’m Hispanic

Overall GPA 3.37 (school didn’t count freshman grades prolly cuz block schedule changed so much)

I was put on probation winter of freshman year for fighting and winter of sophomore year for accumulated concerns (there’s a lot more to the story, which I’ll explain in the statement).

My courses next year will probably be
AP Chem
AP Bio
AP Language and Comp
AP Economics
Genetics & Ethics
Asian History (maybe AP Euro)
Topology
Topology will an independent study course.

Schools I’ll probably apply to:
MIT
U. Rochester
UC Berkeley (legacy)
Harvey Mudd
Johns Hopkins
NYU
Tufts
Claremont Mckenna
Northeastern

I haven’t really thought enough about safeties yet, but I’ll get to it.
Thanks!