<p>Background: I'm a junior in high school in a family of 4 and go to a competitive high school in San Jose, California. I honestly haven't been able to do as much as I wanted to this year, and in high school in general. Partially because when I was a freshman, I started unintentionally hanging around some slackers at my school and some of their habits inadvertently rubbed off on me. Even when I wanted to do more, I have an older brother w/ autism and two younger siblings that I often have to take care of because both parents work late. Both parents are immigrants (Dad from Canada, Mom from Mexico) and I spent a lot of time struggling with moving around a lot in my life, battles with ADD and Depression and overall, I just feel like I really didn't do as well as I could have in high school, some things were beyond my control and a lot of just stupid mistakes/slacking probably have seriously cut into my chances at some college I wanted to go to. Furthermore, my school doesn't offer any AP's for sophomores/freshmen and my teachers intentionally tried to scare some ppl off from them since we at one point had too many ppl signing up at our school, even though we really don't offer that many. But I don't wanna waste your time, just alittle background before we get to the good stuff, so here goes;</p>
<p>Current Grade: 11
Unweighted 10-12 GPA: 3.62
Weighted: Unknown (No idea how the weighting system works, if someone could explain it in detail that would be lovely)
Ethnicity: Hispanic/Mexican</p>
<p>Advanced Classes taken: 5 (Accl. English/History and Honors Chem sophomore year, APUSH and AP Eng. Language junior year)
Advanced Classes taken by graduation: 9 (the aforementioned ones plus AP Calc AB, AP Gov/Econ, AP Lit, APES all senior year)
Total AP's I plan to take by graduation: 6 (possibly 7 if I can do AP Psych/Comp Sci online)</p>
<p>School-related Extracurriculars by graduation:</p>
<p>Cross Country team 3 years, Varsity one
Wrestling Team 3 years, Varsity three
Track team 2 years, Varsity one
Journalism 2 years, Page editor for two sports pages
Paid internship/job as a sports writer for prepsportsdok.com
Speech and Debate one year
Peer Tutor: Will hopefully obtain junior peer tutor award for 30+ hours by first semester senior year.
School clubs: Surf and Board Sports club, hip-hop club, rock n' roll club 3 years each
School Jazz band bassist, 1 year
Non-school related Extracurriculars by graduation:
Internship at local church in media/video department
Independent Bassist, guitarist and pianist
150+ hours of community service at Special Olympics, Angels on Stage, College of Adaptive Arts and other special ed-related organizations, 6 years serving at these organizations, started in middle school
Will be a student director at Angels on Stage next season.
Will get president's award for community service next year.
Took summer classes Academic Connections at UCSD and got A's</p>
<p>This summer:
Summer Classes at De Anza Community college (still waiting to see what I can get)
young scholars program at Santa Clara University (ditto)
Church internship
Congressional Youth Leadership program at Washington DC
Asian Youth Leadership Foundation program at De Anza College
Job at Maximum Health organization for special needs children
Volunteering at Middle School wrestling camp</p>
<p>Next Year's schedule:
Spanish 7-8
AP Gov/Econ
AP Lit
AP Calc AB
AP Enviornmental Science
Media Arts 3-4
Sports
Journalism
Jazz Band</p>
<p>Also founding two clubs and will be president of both</p>
<p>Schools applying to:
Santa Clara University
All UC's
USC
NYU
De Anza
Foothill</p>
<p>Something you can probably tell, I was alittle bit scattered. Except for my community service involvement, one of the stupid mistakes I made is that I tried to diversify myself by trying a bunch of different things rather than sticking with one or two. Hence why I'm trying to make up for it by doing a bunch of stuff this summer/first semester senior year.</p>
<p>So wadda ya think?</p>