Currently, I’m a sophomore in northern Virginia. I have taken all honors classes and AP world(the only AP really offered to sophomores). I have gotten straight As all of these classes and got the academic letter that my high school offers to students who got above a 4.3 GPA their previous year. I have not taken the SAT or ACT year but I’m planning on taking them early in my junior year. My PSAT score was1200 mostly because I did bad on the English section.
The clubs I have done are varsity club(a community service club for varsity athletes) and National Latin Society(I was accepted into it but we haven’t done anything yet). I tried to become apart of the debate team and Math Honors Society, I never really got into them and stopped showing up to their meetings. In freshman and sophomore year, I was apart of the varsity swim team at my high school and got lettered. I have just recently quit swimming because I had never really liked it and saw no point in wasting time swimming when I could do something else that I liked. This year I was also accepted into Latin gov. school and this program that my county offers called Advanced Academy of Engineering and Technology(Adv. AET). What AET is basically is this school where I would be taking my science(physics), math(AP Calc BC), and a specialty course (either engineering or IT, I choose IT), however, I would still be going to my regular school for my humanities/elective classes(AP Lang, APUSH, AP Latin, AP econ macro/micro).
What I want to major in college is CS or software engineering then maybe also major or minor is the classics. My dream schools are Cornell, UPenn, Rice, CMU, and Columbia(no particular order).
I think what I need to improve if I even want to get noticed by these schools are my extracurriculars since I barely have anything notable. However, I have no idea what to do. I’m hoping at AET I’ll be able to find/start an interesting club, and maybe get a job once I get my license in December.
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