<p>Captain of Festival Relay for Life Team that raised $1,580.00 for the American Cancer Society.
Moderator of one of the world’s largest forums: Sythe.org home of over 200,000 members and the world’s largest marketplace and personal support.
Owner and founder of e-store, where online merchandise for MMORPGS were sold.
Historian of one of the school’s largest clubs, Key Club, 2011-2012
Member of the Executive Committee of Beta Club, helping with executive branch of the club of 60 members.
Vice President of Beta Club increasing membership from 60 members to 150.
Vice President of FBLA Club
President of Key Club with over 300 members, 100% membership increase during term
President and founder of American Red Cross club with over 100 members
President of Beta Club, increasing membership from 150 members to 200
Member of school’s table tennis club/team</p>
<p>Placed first in FBLA region 8 for Emerging Business Division of FBLA
Placed first in FBLA region 8 for business plan
Ranked Top 8 in Florida for Emerging Business Division of FBLA
Ranked Top 5 in Florida for business plan
Published author of Orb
Placed fourth in local Public Forums Debate competition</p>
<p>Waiter at Ryuu Japanese Steak House
Head waiter at Crazy Buffett</p>
<p>Superior at American Music Association’s Music Festival for piano from '08-'13
Member of the National Forensics League</p>
<p>Volunteered at
Mosi, Moffit Cancer Center, Metropolitan ministries (logged over 100 hours), American Red Cross Tampa Bay, tutored underpriveleged kids</p>
<p>4.0 unweighted, 5.32 weighted (sophomore GPA, should be around 7-8 around senior year)
SAT score 2270</p>
<p>Also I’m in the IB program taking HL Chemistry, History, and Psychology. I take AP classes in school and on online school while also dual enrolling. </p>
<p>My GPA is in the top 10 in the county.</p>
<p>So exactly who’s approval do you need in order to go forward? 
APPLY! :D</p>
<p>I just want to know if I have a legitimate chance (in order to save the hassle and expense of the costly application fee).</p>
<p>You have a chance definitely. But many of your ECs are overstatements, and the adcoms could see right through that.</p>
<p>For instance:
Many kids alone raise more than that (not that that’s not great, because it is! But I’m just saying). One kid at our school raised over $10,000 each year and the team he was a captain for raised even more, but he wound up going to University of West Virginia</p>
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Becoming the moderator on a website is not very hard at all. On many sites, all you must do is simply apply for it.</p>
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Anyone can open an online merch store. Do you actually make the merchandise? If not, and just design it using templates from the website, this is not very standout.</p>
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While good, this is not spectacular (trust me, I am about the same level as that, having won a few regional tournaments. But kids on my team have been finalists at national competitions at PTon and Yale).</p>
<p>I’d be careful about using the above ECs in your app.</p>
<p>Now, your GPA and Business awards are very good, and will help a lot. If you take out the above ECs and focus on the business and leadership, that will show clear indication of a passion in that area.</p>
<p>Royrebirth, I mean to say that you’ve absolutely got a chance, and I’m puzzled anyone would doubt it. 
I think I disagree with born2dance94 on some things. Like the online merchant store. I think it’s quite “stand-out” to start any kind of business venture, even an online one. Fair enough, anyone can design a website using some templates and a fifty-dollar copy of iLife or something, but it’s a different story taking the trouble to set up the e-commerce facilities and payment system, design the web-site, maintain it, source merchandise, and maintain service delivery to your customers. When you say you’re owner and founder, I assume that means having done (or at least contributed to) all of the above as well?
Mentioning this in your E.C’s can help, it seems to me, if you’d like to show a passion/focus on business and entrepreneurial skills as born2dance94 cleverly suggests. However, I think you shouldn’t take out EC’s just because they’re not as impressive or prestigious as an international competition or mega-project or whatever would be-- part of the reason you list your EC’s is to give the admissions officers insight into your personality and what’s important to you. It doesn’t have to be important to the world as much it has to be important to you. If you list debating, talk about how you love to argue, bargain, and “close the deal”, then you could tie it in with a business-focus thing, I imagine.
I don’t know, that’s just what I would do. :)</p>
<p>@JAupiais yes, if he does all that with the store, that is impressive. But nowadays many websites will do all of those things for you. You just need to design things with a template and advertise it, then people buy it from the link and the website takes care of the rest. I’m not saying that is what he does, but if it is, then it isn’t impressive.</p>
<p>I agree with everything else you said. :)</p>
<p>@Born, the thing that distinguishes my site is that I helped write the code for the site and a system of securities and automatic delivery of products immediately after purchases.</p>
<p>Well I imagine that would certainly count! :)</p>
<p>In that case, it counts ;)</p>
<p>OP,</p>
<p>You sound awesome! You should definitely apply.</p>
<p>I do have one question. How does one have a gpa above 5.0? I’m the parent of a homeschooled son whose done mostly college courses for his high school work. He has straight As in his college classes but I count his grading scale as 5.0=A in a college class so he could never go above a 5.0. Enlighten me, please!</p>
<p>At my school someone could technically get a 5.27 if they took every single possible hard class and did honors projects in every single one possible and got an A+ in all of them. It happens on rare occasions. But even a few As will bring you down.</p>
<p>Oh! So for people who don’t go to schools where they give A+s, it’s not possible to get that kind of gpa. The colleges where my son has taken classes only offer As, Bs, etc.</p>
<p>Yep, but schools send a profile to colleges telling them about a lot of things. Among those are rigor of classes offered and how the grading system works. So they evaluate each person in the context of their school.</p>
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I’ve taken generally all the AP classes possible in my county and state (online) while also dual enrolling at my local college.</p>
<p>Do you thnk they’ll realize sythe is kind of a sketchy site?</p>