<p>I’d say your almost in at all schools except Fordham, Brandeis, McGill, and USCGA. Since I know a ton about USCGA I’ll focus on that.</p>
<p>Your sailing qualifications will really strengthen your application. Your GPA and SAT’s are a tad low for the school. If you haven’t already applied to USCGA, make sure to change your essay topic. This is the Coast Guard for gods sake, they don’t care about school plays. Talk about leadership! Thats what they want to hear. They want to know that spending $400,000 on your education is well worth it. A good essay topic might be, how you applied your sailing knowledge to both assist students and your team, or something along those lines. It would be nice if you had more leadership roles. </p>
<p>I am applying to the United States Naval Academy and United States Coast Guard Academy. I will just barely get into USNA. And I still haven’t gotten into USCGA. These are my stats so you can have something to compare it to. I thought this was pretty qualified, but my BGO says that these put me in the Middle 50%. I thought he was joking because I have 1500 comm service hours. He says that isn’t uncommon. I probably won’t go to the Coast Guard Academy if I get accepted, my goal is USNA. I’m most likely in there because I’ve pulled a ton of strings through my contacts, but if I don’t I’ll probably just do ROTC.</p>
<p>Academics:
GPA: 3.7
SAT: 2150
AP: World History (4), Psychology (4), US History (5), US Government and Politics (5), Enviromental Science (4), European (4), Macroeconomics (4), Microeconomics (5)
Rank: Top 20%</p>
<p>EC
Law:
- Internship at Real Estate Law Firm-Freshmen Summer
- Internship at Insurance Subrogation Law Firm-Sophmore Summer
- President and Founder of an international group that helps administer advice and counsel to students seeking careers in corporate law. Advised students in Germany, France, India, China, among many others. It is now a network of over 85 people, and has regional Advisors in Canada, India, all regions of the US, Australia, UAE, and London .
- Completed 40 classroom hours at Emory University Law School.
- Created a non-profit service in 9th grade that helps citizens living below the poverty line find attorneys to help them with their legal issues.<br>
- Curriculum Leader for Business law at Professional Education Organization International
- Volunteer Paralegal for the National Campaign for Election Reform.
- Member of Paralegal Association
- Have a published essay on the death penalty.
- Quoted in the New York Times on the foreclosure crisis.</p>
<p>Debate:
- Captain of Debate Team for two years.
- Captain of JV and Novice team for two years.
- Member of Varsity team
- Various top 10 speaker awards
- Semi-Finalist and Finalist at state tournaments every year I debated.
- Attended a National Debate Institute
- Unpaid Intern at the International Debate Education Association </p>
<p>Military
- Volunteer for VA hospital
- Started an awareness project for homeless veterans
- Navy League-Legislative Affairs Volunteer</p>
<p>Cycling:
- Have been cycling since 8th grade.
- On a semi-pro team, feeder team for a professional cycling team.</p>
<p>Technology:
- Website designer and maintenance for two non profit organizations
- Certified Electrical Inspector
- Certified in JavaScript
- Certified in C++ Programming
- Certified Computer Hardware Technician
- 2 Page spread in newspaper regarding tech work for non-profits
- Freelance website designer-1 Completed project</p>
<p>Business:
- Member of FBLA and compete in the Business Law Section
- Started an EBay Business in 9th grade netting $300-$900 per month
- Freelance writer with 3 completed projects
- Certified in Business Writing</p>
<p>Additional Volunteering/Extracurricular:
- Board Member of Global Citizens Corps-Awareness and Fundraising group
- Volunteer for Caritas International Belgium assisting with translation projects.
- Playing golf since 8 years old
- Taken Guitar Lessons since 8th grade</p>