Winning best high school documentary

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Hi Guys–</p>

<p>As some of you may know, I am part of a competitve film making academy. I recently submitted one of my films to the largest high school, and college contest in america. </p>

<p>Out of 500+entries, I recieved first place for my documentary about feminism. How much will this help, I have a very good chance of winning a student emmy also, because of this accolade. </p>

<p>I live in CA, and am interested in UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, Georgetown, Stanford, USC, Northwestern, NYU, Penn, Tufts (4 part legacy), BU, BC, McGill (Candian Resident) U. Mich and Emory.</p>

<p>White Male, no financial aid needed.</p>

<p>Here is my stuff…</p>

<p>SAT 1: M:610 CR:640 WR:660 10 ESSAY (1910)
ACT: M 25 ENG 28 SCI 28 READING 29 . (28 COMPOSITE) 11 ESSAY
SAT 2’s US: 650 SPANISH:640 LIT:610</p>

<p>GPA: 3.7 UW 4.1 W</p>

<p>By end of HS, will have taken around 15 honors/ap classes.
Competetive school in n. cali.</p>

<p>I have interned this summer as the only hs student for my congresswoman in DC, Rep. Woolsey. Will get rec if needed.</p>

<p>Have internship set up next summer in china, working IT for 5 hospitals around shanghai.</p>

<p>Classes taken at CC:
Chinese 110-A
Chinese 101- A</p>

<p>Took AP Government, got A-, at Georgetown Summer Program.</p>

<p>Community Service: 300+ hours coaching and organizing special olympics.
Video Editing for school officials Ongoing, predicting 50+</p>

<p>Founder and President of JSA at school. Statewide senator, debater, and moderator at nationwide conferences.</p>

<p>Work 10 hours at week at tennis instructor, coach entire team of middle schoolers.</p>

<p>Next year classes:
AP Comp
H. Physics
AP calc AB
Econ/Gov
Digital Media Studies
Chinese 102/210</p>

<p>What do you guys think… I really want to go to one of these schools.</p>

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<p>Anyone? Also, I have studied spanish up to the AP level, while taking chinese also.</p>

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<p>Your test scores are weak for some of the schools you are applying to.
Do you plan on applying ED to Tisch?</p>

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<p>just do film if youre that good.</p>

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<p>I do not want to study film, my abililty to make good documentaries stems from my interviewing abilities, and archival research.</p>

<p>I will not apply to Tisch, but probably to Gallatin.</p>

<p>What SAT’s should i aim for, highest i think I could get is a 2100.</p>

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<p>Oh I’m sorry judging by certain schools you are looking at (NYU, UCLA, USC, NW) you can see why one would assume that.</p>

<p>For Stanford you need higher SAT’s. One great documentary can’t save you.</p>

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<p>I’m aware that Stanford is my largest reach. However, they have been taking 15% of the students from my academy for the last two years, pretty cool.</p>

<p>What about the other schools, I really like G-town, N-Western, Mich.</p>

<p>I am going to play up my studying 2 languages, volunteering every weekend for special olympisc for 4 years, and being the only high school intern for my represntative on the hill.</p>

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<p>I am an idiot when it comes to chancing. Because honestly, what do I know. I have a better SAT than you and better grades with not as amazing e.c’s (because yours rule pretty much, i do film too) and we have some of the same schools. So idk about Gtown because I like it there too. </p>

<p>I think you are a match to lower reach for Michigan though. But 2000+ is going to be needed to help you out for BC, Gtown, Penn, Tufts.</p>

<p>UC’s may be easier for you than me since you’re in-state.</p>

<p>Good luck bro</p>

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<p>Thanks for the support. Yea, I pretty much suck at testing, I’ve never finished a math or reading section, but now i get extra time, so i’m expecting probably 50 or more points per section. </p>

<p>I hope that my EC’s round me out… my academy is very well recognized within the academic field, we were recently featured in a premier education magazine, and will hopefully be in TIME soon.</p>

<p>I also helped engineer a film festival showcasing our films to the public, over 400 attended, net profit of over 5K, after around 4K of expenses.</p>