<p>I honestly have no idea where my application will take me as you will soon see why.
To start off, my unweighted GPA is 3.45 pretty bad yes however
Freshman GPA -3.0
Sophomore GPA -3.55
Junior year GPA - 3.8</p>
<p>and I got 4.0 UW GPA in first quater of my senior year and because I am applying RD, admissions will see that I got my acts together</p>
<p>Course loads were most rigorous in all subjects except for Spanish which I dropped in my senior year but I replaced it with AP Macro/Micro so I don't think it'll hurt me too much</p>
<p>SAT I: Math- 800, Writing-760, CR - 740 (2300 in total and 1540 in 1600 scale)
SAT II: Math 2C - 800, Biology M - 770</p>
<p>Honors
Letter of Certificate in AMC-12 (not many are aware of this award but it's an award that's given to someone who scored 100 or above at AMC 12 as a freshman or younger. I won this award as a freshman)
AP Scholar with Distinction
National Merit Scholarship Commended
1st place in regional math competition</p>
<p>EC (leadership position)
3 years of Marching, jazz, and concert band (drums captain)
Student council (class treasurer, student body president)
FBLA (director of event planning)
Math team (Vice president)
Science team
National Honor Society
Boy Scout of America for 5 years (Den Chief/ Life Scout....too late for Eagle ugh)
1 year of Madrigals - my school's highest level of audition choir
Volunteered at a local hospital for 200 hours
Engaged myself in numerous tutoring/teaching activities for math, science, SAT, and drums
Organized many clubs and programs for my school such as research club, school-sponsored tutoring program, a program to provide incentives for the students to read NEw York Times daily, and a program that organizes high school students to devise fun and safe experiments to forster interest in science among town's elementary school students
Volunteered at my town's ambulance corps as an Emergency Medical Technician for a total of 100 hours and will be 150~170 hours by ED deadline
Doing an internship at my town's environmental commission as a public speaker</p>
<p>Recommendation
I got one from my AP Bio teacher, one from my AP History teacher, one from my guidance counselor, and my school's superintendent offered to write one so I took it. I think they are all very good and work together with each other and my essay. They all included the quality that I included in my essay and they all fit together with each other nicely.</p>
<p>Essay
I didn't write my Chicago one yet but I am planning to make it EPIC (well so do all the other applicants but....)
My commonapp essay is good. If you'd like to read the essay for a more accurate reply, I will send it to you</p>
<p>Any tips will also be welcomed. My biggest concern is my low overall GPA, I'm hoping that all of the other things that I have can make up for it.</p>