<p>Just some quick stats first:</p>
<p>High School:
Rank: 1st quartile (24/~236 ranked students)
GPA: Weighted: 4.3/Unweighted: 3.48 (note that this is helped greatly by some honors weighted electives; real GPA would probably be closer to 3.35)
SAT: 1480 (800v 680m)
SAT II: Writing 700, Math Ic: 630, World History: 680
National Merit Commended Student (only one in my school, I hold the record for highest SAT score period)
ECs of note: Band, Marching Band, Debate (captain), Scholastic Scrimmage (captain), Science Olympiad senior year w/ 2 athletic confrence medals (Silver in chem, bronze in physics)</p>
<p>College:
Very small science-oriented first tier LAC
Major: Philosophy (with a likely minor in history or polisci or both)
Expected GPA: 3.5-3.7
Classes:
Russian I
CWS (Freshman writing seminar)
Intro to Philosophy
Environmental Ethics
ECs: Band, Kvasr (literary mag), Hillel, Model UN starting next semester</p>
<p>The reason for the sharp GPA increase is that I’ve started treatment for anxious depression (both medicatin and therapy) and I’m not living at home any more; it wasn’t a pretty situation (My dad is an alcoholic). My transcript for high school was very erratic; in some classes I would have very low 80s (even one C in chem), other classes I would have low 90s. It basically depended how much of the class grade depended on outside work (essays, homework, projects) and how much depended on tests and in-class work. </p>
<p>I feel like I have to explain this somehow, but I know adcoms are weary of kids who write anything about depression or related things. I’m planning on applying to schools like Brown, Wesleyan, Barnard, and Bryn Mawr.</p>
<p>What do you think I should do?</p>