Hi College Confidential! I
Hooks: I am half Panamanian and half African and go to a school that is 90% Caucasian.
Classes: By my senior year I would have taken a total of 11 Honors classes and 10 AP classes. My GPA is about 4.15 weighted right now, 3.9 unweighted.
Freshman Year
-Honors Geometry
-Honors Biology
-Honors American History 2
-Honors English 9
- Principals of Law
Sophomore Year
-Honors Chemistry 1
-AP European History
- AP Prep English 10
-Honors Spanish 2/3 - Honors Algebra 2
Junior Year
- Honors Pre-Calc
-Honors Spanish 4 - AP United States History
- AP Language and Composition
- AP Chemistry
- Honors Physics 1
Senior Year ( Expected)
-AP Statistics
- AP Government and Politics
-AP Psychology - AP Literature and Composition
-AP Biology - AP Music Theory
- AP Spanish or AP Microeconomics
Extracurricular Activities:
- Involved in school, county and district orchestra. I’m rated number two in my entire school district for violin and viola. I am also apart of an opera alliance orchestra and have studied with a pre-college orchestra at a university.
- FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) Involved with regional and state competitions. During my freshman year, I placed first in the region and 14th in the state.
- World Affairs Club
- Model UN
- National Honors Society
- Youth Council for my county. I have done numerous volunteer activities such as making blankets for the homeless, playing my violin around hospital hallways and cooking food for the Ronald McDonald house.
- Student Council for school also.
SAT and other testing: I received a 4 on AP European Exam last year and scored a 1950 on SAT.
Schools:
-Princeton University
-Boston University
- Amherst College
- University of Massachusetts: Boston
- Northeastern University
- University of Pennsylvania
-University of Pittsburgh - Penn State University Park ( possibly Honors college)
-Carnegie Mellon University
-University of Rochester
Any advice or opinions are welcome!
Additionally: I’m thinking of double majoring in biochemistry and political science. Possibly a minor in music only so that I can participate in orchestra.