<p>Schedule:
Freshman:
AP World History (5)
Geometry Honors
Pre-IB Spanish II (honors)
Pre-IB English I (honors)
Advanced Reading (only non-honors, required one semester)/Integrated Science (honors) Pre-IB Biology I (honors)
Pre-IB French I (honors)</p>
<p>Sophomore:
AP English Lang (5)
AP Human Geography (4)
AP Biology (4)
AP European History (4)
Algebra II Honors
Pre-IB Spanish III (honors)
Pre-IB Chemistry (Honors)</p>
<p>Junior:
IB Pre-Calculus
IB Spanish IV SL (6)
IB Biology II
IB Geography SL (7)
AP US History (5)
AP English Lit (5)
AP Psychology (5)</p>
<p>Senior:
IB Calculus SL/AP Calculus AB
IB Spanish V (took the IB test but continuing studies)
IB Biology IV HL
IB English Literature HL
IB History of the Americas HL
AP US Gov/AP Macroeconomics
Theory of Knowledge</p>
<p>GPA through junior year:
UW: 3.97 (All As and 1 B in IB Pre-Calculus)
W: 5.0 (.025 per semester of honors)
Rank: 2/350, top 1%</p>
<p>Test scores:
1st SAT, end of sophomore year: 2060, 600 M, 700 R, 760 W
1st ACT, end of sophomore year: 31: 30 M, 28 S, 32 R, 35 E (won't send if don't have to)
2nd SAT, March of junior year: 2230, 670 M, 760 R, 800 W
SAT IIs: 800 USH, 760 Bio E, 740 Math II</p>
<p>Major awards:
National Merit Semi-Finalist (will be - 219, comfortably above my state's cutoff)
National AP Scholar
1 gold and 3 regional Scholastic Art and Writing Keys
Some History Fair at the County level, went to state, school awards, etc.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Academic Team, school level: 4 years, Secretary as sophomore, Vice President as junior, President as senior. Organized (40 hours of work) a middle school tournament in my area to encourage kids to learn outside of the classroom and become interested in academic team as an activity.
Academic Team, county level: 3 year member, finished 2nd at state as a sophomore and junior
8 hours per week total
Literary Magazine: 3 years, Junior editor as a junior, Editor-in-Chief as a senior. We create and sell a publication of student writing and artwork. Proceeds benefit charities of our choosing.
2 hours per week
National Honor Society, Co-President senior year: Head up club activities and charitable outreach as well as administrative work.
3-5 hours per week
Spanish National Honor Society, Co-President senior year: Same as with NHS, but with an emphasis on learning about and discussing Spanish culture and language and encouraging our members to do so (I also studied abroad in Spain for 3 weeks between sophomore and junior year. Really eye opening and important in my interest in economics and political science).
1 hour per week
Drama Club/International Thespian Society: work in Publicity bringing people to shows and publishing show material, such as playbill, tickets, etc.
as needed, usually 10-15 hours per show, 3-4 shows per year</p>
<p>I also compete in dog shows from time to time and have earned some titles and awards.</p>
<p>Service:
I do various activities with a local teen volunteer group and have volunteered at a theatre/drama camp in the summer, but my focus is really with animal rescue groups. I work with several groups in my area doing 1-5 hours of volunteering (depends on schedules) per week with cats, dogs, and horses, and also fundraising; just over $1000 for one so far (doesn't sound like a lot compared to what some kids have raised but it's a big boon to them and I'm proud of it). Since becoming Co-President of NHS I have also organized activities with these charities. All told, about 300 hours of volunteering.</p>
<p>Essays and rec letters will be very good. 1 rec will be from my Bio teacher who is also the NHS sponsor and very passionate about animal rescue. The other will likely be from my AP and IB Geography teacher who loves me and whose classes I really enjoyed (7s in IB Geography are really, really rare at my school).</p>
<p>Intended Major(s): Economics and Political Science with a minor in Spanish/Political Economy and Spanish where offered.</p>
<p>Schools:
Stanford (reach for everyone, I know, but am I in the ballpark? Also secondary legacy but don't think I can put that on the app)
Yale (Same as Stanford)
Oxford (I'm pretty familiar with the process and know the difficulty)
Georgetown SFS (#1), EA
UChicago, EA
Penn: Huntsman, then CAS for preference
Northwestern
Williams
Washington in St. Louis
UVA (OOS), EA
UNC (OOS), EA
Washington and Lee
NYU
George Washington University
UMiami
LSU (safety)
Working on finding some more safeties and deciding how to trim this list.</p>
<p>School setting: Really poor, urban, underperforming school with a high-performing IB program inset. We usually send a couple of kids to the Ivies and a few others to top 20 schools every year.
Demographics: White, female, won't be applying for financial aid. Parents both went to college, dad is a doctor.</p>
<p>Finally, thank you for reading my ridiculously long thread! :D</p>
but as you are wanting to major in economics/political science you should probably emphasize your background there</p>