<p>Im white, live in Los Angeles, and go to a pretty terrible high school :p
Ive only taken 2 APs, and recently took exams for both of them, and think I scored well.</p>
<p>My GPA is low though, a weighted around a 3.4, the reason being my home life mostly, as well as some internal issues.
My parents separated, so my mom and sisters and I moved in with my grandparents in a really nice neighborhood. when my grandpa died, we had no money, moved out, and then my grandma essentially took a year to die of lung cancer on my living room couch my freshman year of high school. my sister ran away from home, so I moved in with my aunt, who struggled financially as well. My moms autoimmune disease worsened as well. Its been really tough these past four years.</p>
<p>On top of that, in 10th grade, I started studying nihilism, and started to believe that I didn't exist, and was kind of caught up in, well, nothing. I stopped doing alot of my work because I couldnt find meaning, and still sort of struggle with it sometimes. But I started studying existentialism, and different typed of philosophy, and that really saved me. </p>
<p>I have also struggled with math throughout high school (I got a D first semester Alg. 2, and a C second semester, and then a C first semester for Math Analysis, and its really up in the air right now whether I will get a C or not this semester), but I want to pursue a political science major.</p>
<p>Also, I took a grip of honors courses, but the UC system doesnt count my schools honor program in a weighted GPA (bull). </p>
<p>Anyway aside from that, I scored a 31 on the ACT</p>
<p>Here are my extracurriculars</p>
<p>Volunteer</p>
<p>400 Service Hours from LAUSD All District Honor Band
60 Hours from SPHS Marching Band
40 Hours from JROTC
So like, 500 hours total. </p>
<p>Leadership</p>
<p>Section Leader in SPHS Marching / Concert Band (Senior Year)
Founder / President of SPHS Philosophy Club (Junior Year)
Founder / President of SPHS Political Activist Club (Senior Year)
Vice President of SPHS Physics Club (Junior Year)
I have a really high shot </p>
<p>Extracurricular</p>
<p>People to People Student Ambassadors Trip to Europe (6 Countries) (Summer of 2012)
LAUSD All District Honorary Marching Band (All of HS)
SPHS Jazz Band (Junior Year)
California YMCA Youth and Government Model Legislature and Court Program (All of HS)
-Co Authored/Sponsored (and passed through assembly) a highly controversial bill on the implementation of hybrid vehicles into all state sponsored organizations.
-Worked as a lobbyist.
-Applying for Governors Lobbyist next year (will probably get it)
USC - California Youth Think Tank (Summer of 2012)
SPHS Marching / Concert Band (All of HS)
-Playing Trombone for 6 Years
Knights and Knightettes Honor Society (Senior Year)
Mabuhay Culture Club (1 Year)
Armed Forces Club (1 Year)</p>
<p>Senior Schedule, if it helps
AP Biology
AP Environmental Science
AP Gov / Econ
AP Literature
AP Psychology
International Relations
Adv. Band</p>
<p>I'm also taking an online course this summer with U. Penn on the Fundamentals of Pharmacology, and the another with either U Penn. or Princeton on Introduction to Sociology. There's no credit, but there is documentation, if that helps. </p>
<p>Also, on that People to People trip to Europe, I'm getting high school credit for Ambassadorial Studies.</p>
<p>Im applying to UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSB, UCSD, and I'll probably apply to USC.</p>