<p>name: x1397
residence: MD
school: VA (i travel 45 min max everyday)
nationality: filipino (first generation american)
gpa: either 3.2 or 3.5. unweighted, since i've never taken an hnrs/AP til sr. year.
grade: senior 2010</p>
<p>-course load: all regular, no honors/ap until senior year. reason because my school has prereqs that i didn't meet, & the only reason i made hnrs. courses senior year is bc i had to fight for it. the teachers @ my school for reg. classes screwed me over.
ap us government
ap comparative government
ap macro economics
ap micro economics
ap environmental science
ap psychology(self study)
ap human geography (self study)
ap world history (self study)
ap art history (self study)
ap music theory (self study)
ap computer science (self study)</p>
<p>-SAT's & ACT's are bad. like below 1400 bad.
took the spanish SAT subject test, confident about that, but didn't receive scores yet.</p>
<p>-community service: 100+ hours
work experience: zero.</p>
<p>-extra curriculars:
student government (3 years; jr/sr year counselor)
newspaper editor in chief (3 years)
literary magazine editor in chief (2 years)
HUGE fundraising event co-chair (2 years; only available for jr/sr year)
sadd president (4 years)
eco president (3 years)
spanish club, running for president next year (3 years)
model UN, running for president next year (1 year)
photo club (2 years)
health services president (2 years)
unity club (1.5 years; started in 2009)</p>
<p>-out of school extra curriculars:
hallowgreen event winner - 2008
piano - 12 years
flute - 1 year
clarinet - 5 years
community college dual enrollment: philosophy, plan on taking more during the school year.</p>
<p>major: double major in international relations/journalism
minor: environmental studies (photography?)</p>
<p>my school doesn't rank.</p>
<p>-OTHER:
personality-wise i'm REALLY hardworking; i'm not lazy at all. it may not show with my gpa, but like i said, the regular course teachers really screwed me over. the reason i didn't opt for honors/ap courses since senior year is because of the prerequisites at my school; i had to FIGHT and pull a few strings for my senior ap's. i KNOW i could handle the honors/ap workload, but like i said, my regular course teachers COMPLETELY screwed me over. i'm always taking the chance to show my leadership qualities and enhance my people skills. </p>
<p>**at my school i'm a year younger than everyone because my school is in a different state & their kindergarten age was different than my residence age, so i couldn't legally take a job or drive until i was a junior.</p>
<p>since i go to a private catholic school my religion classes would be considered history classes, so technically when i graduate i would have 5+ years of a history, not including my asian history & ap psych.</p>
<p>i think my "hook" would be that i live in maryland but attend an out of state school for six years? i don't know if that's "intense" enough.</p>
<p>i don't speak tagalog, but i understand it. completely.
i understand only a little bit of 2 filipino dialects (kapampangan & ilocano)
i'm taking other language courses outside of school, in addition to my 4 years of spanish in hs. spanish 4 honors senior year.</p>
<p>i can get some awesome, awesome letters of recommendations.</p>
<p>schools:
george washington ED
towson
george mason
american</p>