<p>GPA:
Fresh - All As
Soph - All As
Jr. - 3 Bs 1st sem (death of family member -> not able to handle school and everything, kinda came falling down, hopefully this won’t hurt too much, I know there is supposed to be a spot to include notes about any circumstances surrounding unusual transcripts and I have documentation that my grades all dropped right after the death.)
2nd Sem Jr. - on track to get all As
Sr. - I have no idea how I will do in AP Lit, so I made a conservative estimate</p>
<p>SAT - I practice an hour a day which doesn’t take much effort, but the consistency is really helpful. And the test isn’t for several months now, I’ll be fine thank you very much. </p>
<p>As for the hook - in that case I don’t exactly know if I would put anything for hook. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Calc/LinAlg - Taking AP test for Calc (too bad there isn’t one for Lin Alg). Placement test to get into Stanford Analysis class covers Calc, MV Calc and Lin Alg. Plus if I need to, I’ll just take what ever placement test the college I go to offers. I just want them to know why there is a sudden jump as far as math classes on my HS transcript</p>
<p>Math contest things - I am good at math concepts, not the best person in the world at problem solving -> hence I did not get into USAMO and a 3 on the AIME isn’t really worth mentioning.</p>
<p>As for Nat French contest, no awards. I am not really that interested in french anyway. Even if I did win an award, I doubt I would let it take up a spot, it doesn’t speak to my true character as much as my other stuff does. </p>
<p>As for your last comment, thank you for your input, but it is not a 4.0 GPA and perfect SAT score that makes a good, successful person. It’s the attitude, people skills, and the effort. I choose to put my effort into things I am more passionate about (ie: mentoring, teaching myself what I want to learn etc.) instead of SAT tests.</p>
<p>Perfect scores are a dime a dozen and frankly if you put all your efforts into getting a perfect score, then you loose the real meaning of being educated.</p>