<p>The Schools
USC School of Cinematic Arts - Writing for Screen & Television
NYU Tisch School of the Arts - Dramatic Writing
Emerson University
Stanford University
UC Berkeley
Occidental College
UC Santa Barbara</p>
<p>The Man
Caucasian male, 17.
Southern California.
No interesting ethnic/cultural heritage to speak of.
Father graduated from Stanford and works at Occidental. Grandfather was dean of the USC medical school.</p>
<p>The Academics
3.91 unweighted GPA through junior year.
4.40 weighted GPA through junior year.
National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist.
AP Scholar with Distinction.
Unknown class rank, but top 10%.</p>
<p>The Senior Year Schedule
AP U.S. Government and Politics
Economics (fall semester) + Study Hall (spring semester)
Varsity Virtual Enterprise (my school has one of the best teams in the nation)
AP English Literature
School Newspaper
AP Calculus BC
Sports</p>
<p>The Test Scores
• 2250 SAT Reasoning (one sitting total). 800 Reading, 700 Math, 750 Writing.
• 730 SAT II Biology M.
• 750 SAT II Physics.
• 800 SAT II U.S. History.
• 800 SAT II Mathematics 2.
• 4 AP Physics.
• 4 AP U.S. History.
• 5 AP Biology.
• 5 AP Calculus AB.
• 5 AP English Language.</p>
<p>The Extracurriculars
• 4 years of varsity cross country. 3 varsity letters. 15:08 lifetime 3-mile PR; third-fastest XC runner in school history. Boys team captain and leadership group member senior year (~100 athletes on team, ~50 boys).
• 3 years of varsity track. 3 varsity letters (assuming spring 2012). 4:38 1600 PR through junior year. 9:48 3200 PR through junior year. Member of school-record-holding 4x1600 relay team.
• Wrote scripts for, helped film, and edited various videos for show during school assemblies from sophomore year to present.
• Wrote scripts for and helped film commercials for a local ballot proposition.
• With friends, placed second in a national video contest for Boy Scouts of America.
• 2 years of school newspaper. Opinion Section Award winner junior year. Promoted to copy editor senior year.
• Coached a elementary/middle schooler in both baseball and running from his fifth-grade year to present. Initially hired because his dad was in England for a year, but they kept me on after he came back.
• Secretary and founding member of the Wiffle Ball Club.
• Successfully completed National Novel Writing Month in 2008.</p>
<p>The Letters of Recommendation
• The obligatory counselor.
• My AP Language teacher. She liked me and she teaches rhetoric for a living, so I'm pretty sure it's good.
• My AP Calculus teacher. She likes me too.</p>
<p>Let me know if I'm missing anything. And thanks in advance.</p>