<p>I'm new here, so I'd just like to say hi. I basically ripped the format from wrightm's thread, so credit to him. Like anyone else, I'd love to get into Yale, Harvard, etc. University of Chicago would also be really nice. If I can't get there, tell me the highest level I can most likely get into.</p>
<p>Basics:
Gender: Male
Race: Asian American/White
School: Competitive Public School in the suburbs of Chicago
Intended major: Mathematics</p>
<p>SAT: yet to take
ACT: 35, 12 on writing
SAT II: Will be taking Math, Physics, and possibly U.S. History
GPA: 3.9 Unweighted/4.5 Weighted (Rounded to nearest tenth. Only blemishes are B's from freshman English)<br>
Rank: 20/500 (My overly negative impression of our school's English program probably hurts some)</p>
<p>AP Scores:
Calc BC- 5
Gov't/Politics- 5
Macroeconomics- 5
US History- 5</p>
<p>Transcript:</p>
<p>Freshman year:
Honors Biology
Honors Algebra I (Already had taken honors Geometry in 8th grade and standard high school algebra in 7th grade)
Honors English
Gym
World History (No honors offered here for freshmen)
Spanish I</p>
<p>Sophomore year:
Honors Algebra II
Drivers Ed/Health (oddly enough this counts for gym credit...)
Standard English II (probably should have stuck it through)
Honors Chemistry
AP US History
Spanish II</p>
<p>Junior year:
Honors Physics
Gym
Honors Spanish III (This is the first spanish available for honors)
AP Gov't Politics
AP Macroeconomics
AP Calc BC
Consumer Ed (My school has a consumer ed requirement and an "Applied Arts" requirement. This class, for some reason or another, kills both of those requirements)
Standard English III</p>
<p>Senior Year (to be taken. No lunch unfortunately):
Calculus III (offered through a college at my high school. Have to show up an hour early)
AP Spanish IV
AP English/Literature
AP Physics
AP European History
AP Biology
Gym</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Freshman year: Began working out for school football team
Sophomore year: Actual football season. Workouts again in winter/spring
Junior year: Another football season (varsity). Left after the season due to team discipline issues. Also did math team that went to state. Model UN.
Senior year: Will be doing cross country, as I'm fairly good at it (top 4 out of a team of 80). Currently running with the team during the summer.</p>
<p>Other notable accomplishments:
~34 hours of volunteer work at local food pantry and public library (did a lot of tech support at the library as I'm skilled with computers)
Worked as an election judge during Illinois's primaries in February
Part of Spanish Honors Society
Honor roll freshman year, High Honors all other years
95th percentile on National Spanish Exam
Working at Target
I've done some tutoring, but not through any official channels and I often get paid</p>
<p>Some offtopic notes/me venting:
I did apply for NHS. The student panel did acknowledge my application and approved me. They have to send the application to the head of NHS (my freshman English teacher by coincidence), and the application was apparently lost in transit. Never was inducted, but I'll just have to get in this year, won't I? I'm also back in AP English on recommendation from my junior English teacher.</p>
<p>I wrote this up pretty quickly. If I remember anything in addition to this, I'll come back and edit it in.</p>