Background: I am a white male from South Carolina. My mother was a high school drop out who was a bartender (I do not know my father). I was born in Miami, Florida. We moved to SC during the third grade because of the dramatic rise in living costs.
Now, my mother and I weren’t exactly well off in Miami. But in SC we fell onto hard times. Hard enough that we were evicted from our tiny little shack in SC and were made homeless. My mother fell into a depression and was deemed mentally unfit to raise me; and so, in my fourth grade year, I moved in with my large extended family in a small farmhouse in the boonies.
As a child, I was quiet and diminutive and was sort of an outcast from my family. My younger self usually left the madness inside to enter the quiet of the woods outside. With no kids around to talk to, I usually played imaginary battles or laid in an old hammock in the backyard and read my old fifth grade history textbook. That book was the start of my love for history. I read of heroes who chased their dreams. They inspired me to dream of leaving home and going forth into the world to achieve my ambitions and inspire others They were too busy watching TV, smoking stuff, or doing nothing to care for me effectively. So, after a year, I was taken away from my family and made a ward of the state.
I was a ward for three years until my mother finally proved to the courts that she could raise me competently. At the beginning of my eighth grade year. we moved to Tennessee right out of my first day out of the System. We fell on hard times again and we were made homeless once again in the middle of my eighth grade year. In the summer before my ninth grade year, my mother made a hard decision and sent me back to SC to live with a foster parent. And that’s where I’ve been ever since!
Throughout high school, I have realized my passion for community service and history. I desire to serve and inspire others. I want to be the person my family WANTED to be, but never TRIED to be. Though none of them have ever went to college, I want to be the one who makes a difference and go do it. And I want to do it through my love for history. Whether its through self-study or taking classes, I desire to hone and chase my great passion through higher education.
SAT I:
2130
-Critical Reading: 800
-Math: 610 (working on getting it up)
-Writing: 720
SAT II:
-World History: 780
-United States History: 770
(I love, love, love history)
Class Rank:
-25 out of 222
GPA:
-Weighted: 4.67
-Unweighted: 3.79
Extracurriculars:
-Beta Club (President)
-Key Club (President) (Founder)
-Dungeons and Dragons Club (President) (Founder)
-Cross-Country (Team Captain)
-Track and Field (Team Captain)
-AFJROTC (Deputy Corps Commander)
-Palmetto Boys’ State
-Interact Club (Historian)
(One of my other passions is community service, which stems from my poor past/background and desire to give back to the community.)
APs:
-AP US History: 5
-AP Human Geography: 4
-AP Psychology: 5
-AP World History (self-studied): 5
-AP Art History (self-studied): 5
-AP European History (self-studied): 5
(Through my love for history, I tried to take AP’s in my high school related to it. Sadly, they only offered one history course. So as a result, I embraced independency and self-studied every other history AP the CB offered and got 5’s on all of them.)
Awards:
-West Point Leadership Award.
-Academic Gold Medalist.
-Cross-Country Rookie of the Year.
-AP Scholar with distinction.
-Cross-Country all-Region athlete.
-Cross-Country County Champion
-Cross-Country Rookie of the Year.
Income: None since I’m an independent.
State: South Carolina.
Intended major: History.
Reaches:
Amherst College
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University (ILR)
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Emory University
Stanford University
Williams College
Yale University
Matches:
University of South Carolina (Accepted into the Honors College)
Clemson University (Awaiting)
