GPA: 92.417 (weighted)
SAT: 1400
Intended major: Astrophysics w/ minor in Creative Writing
Nationality: Salvadoran
FA: yes
APs: AP Spanish Language (5), AP World History (3), AP Psych (?), AP English Language (?)
ECs: Animal Rights Club (founder/president), Arts Club (co founder/VP), Ecology Club (VP), Book Club (secretary), independent study (online astronomy college courses/books on astronomy), photography, writing blog (poetry/short stories).
Senior Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP English Lit, AP Spanish Lit, Astronomy (semester), Photography, Research and Lab Design (semester), Computer Science (semester), Comparative Government (semester), Latin History (semester), Environmental Science (semester).
(+ AP French independent)
Awards: Received a diploma for having a particular high amount of service hours, won poetry contest in my High School
Service: (750 hours so far but I’m still counting)
Service projects include teaching young children how to speak English, making textbooks for the impoverished schools, helping build wheel chairs, etc.
Recommendation Letters: AP Psychology teacher/sub director, Physics teacher
Summers: 9th grade- Intern as an assistant in an office
10th grade- Service Activities / Intern as an assistant in that same office
11th grade- Not completely sure yet but it is likely I will have an internship in the country’s Observatory or if not I will work for that office again. I will also do some service.