Hi! I’m currently a junior in VA high school interested in majoring in Journalism, Gov, or Russian. Main concern is that I struggled a lot during sophomore year because I had undiagnosed ADD, junior year is going fine now but I’m worried about how it will affect me in the long run since my grades were not amazing. Thank you !
Objective:
Background: Upper-middle class white female, very competitive public school
Current grade: Junior
Class Rank: School doesn’t rank
AP Classes: AP World (sophomore) AP Lang, AP Physics, APUSH, AP Human Geo (junior) AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Russian, AP AB Calc, AP Micro/Macro (senior anticipated)
GPA: Weighted: 4.0/Unweighted: 3.6 (all A’s freshman year, 2 B’s and 1 C sophomore year)
SAT (new): 1400
ACT: (will take in the fall)
Major Awards: NAMI 2019 Youth Leadership Award, UNA Global Service Award, Silver Medal on National Russian Contest, NSPA Honor Roll, 9 Model UN Awards
Subjective:
Extracurriculars:
- Political writing/editing for international magazines - international politics, social justice, and economics magazines, one has been featured in HuffPost, Teen Vogue, etc. and has a 35% acceptance rate for writers. Wrote pieces on specifically social issues and politics.
- Classroom UN mentor for United Nations Association - worked with inner-city students through a program called Global Classrooms DC to teach them Model UN as a catalyst for diplomacy, research, and writing. Was also the youngest and only sophomore selected to moderate proceedings at their annual Model UN conference.
- Intern for state democratic committee - worked alongside high school and college students to help elect Democratic officials into local, state, and national office.
- Taught a community course in journalism - proposal was accepted to institute a new journalism class at my community center, that I individually created, designed, and taught to a class of 15+ students on the fundamentals of journalism, youngest program director and teacher.
- Quill & Scroll U.S. Student Advisory Board - chosen as 1 of 13 students in the U.S. who would advise the NSPA/JEA through the Quill & Scroll advisory board on issues like censorship, student rights, and freedom of the press.
- Regional coordinator for an international journalism project - coordinated this initiative for the east coast of the U.S. to foster greater youth involvement in the field of journalism.
- Youth Board Director for Smithsonian Libraries - 1 of 2 freshman selected to serve on a youth board that advised the Smithsonian Directors on the issue of augmented youth engagement with the library.
- School activities/leadership - Model United Nations (Under Secretary-General, Logistics Coordinator, Committee Chair), VHSL Journalism (Editorial Board) Student Government (Class Officer) Student Advisory Council, Quill & Scroll Honor Society, English Honor Society, Orchestra
Volunteer/Community service:
National Alliance on Mental Illness (Youth Leadership Council, won a handful of awards for it including a fairly prestigious VA one, involved talking on lots of panels + Q&As and I occasionally was invited to guest speak at events)
International OCD Foundation (basic volunteer work, article published on website, nominee for IOCD Youth Hero Award)
Miscellaneous (photography for town events, volunteer at some political events in DC, teaching community course, hospital volunteer at Inova Fairfax)
Summer Activities:
- Yale Young Global Scholars (Politics)
- Freelance journalism + magazine writing
- Political Internship with state committee
I have legacy at Georgetown (I’m not sure if they consider legacy) if that changes anything. Thanks in advance!! (I am also awaiting results from 2 subject tests).
thanks !