<p>Hi to all,</p>
<p>Background: I'm a junior at a top Illinois public school. I skipped the second and third grades but went back a grade for athletics when I transferred to a public middle school. My ADHD really affected my freshman and sophomore years as it went untreated, but with medication I've really been able to buckle down and get some really good work done.</p>
<p>Ethnicity: My mother's a second-generation Puerto Rican/Spaniard and my father's a complete mutt--Eastern European/Russian/Ashkenazi Jew, etc.</p>
<p>GPA: (W on 5.00 scale, since classes were all honors/AP)
Freshman--3.80 (My freshman year was completely mediocre--see above--with a 3.80/5.00 while in all honors classes. I think that was mostly due to the ADHD, an elongated acclimation period and my immaturity compared to my peers.)
Sophomore--3.70
Junior--4.20 (first sem)</p>
<p>Class Rank: somewhere in the top 10 or 11%</p>
<p>AP's: Junior--AP English Lang/Comp , APUSH
Senior--AP English Lit, AP US Gov't, AP Comp Gov't, AP Econ, AP Bio, AP Stats, AP Calc AB</p>
<p>EC's:
-two year class council member
-baseball soph/jun
-club baseball every summer
-swimming frosh
-1st chair alto sax in wind symphony frosh/soph
-1st chair alto sax in jazz band frosh/soph
-writer on school newspaper frosh/soph, production editor jun
-writer for the teen newspaper of a major, big city paper (very, very selective)
-member of Tri-M music honors society
-Project Lead the Way pre-engineering courses frosh/soph/jun
-captain of/leading scorer for scholastic bowl frosh/soph/jun
-eucharistic minister and minister of care for Archdiocese of Chicago</p>
<p>Honors:
-National Honor Society jun
-Foreign Language Honors jun
-English Honors jun
-Science Honors jun</p>
<p>Standardized Tests:
-AP Comp--36 (36 R, E, S; 34 M)
-SAT--not taken yet, hopefully somewhere above 2350
-PSAT--223
-SAT II: not taken yet</p>
<p>Recommendations:
-Editor for my newspaper
-School psychologist/counselor
-Baseball coach</p>
<p>Thanks, everybody!</p>