i’ve been reading lots of chance me threads, and i’m super nervous. i don’t know if i’m doing enough right now. i plan on majoring in linguistics
the colleges i’m looking at now are swarthmore, haverford, indiana university bloomington, purdue (i would be in-state for these), usc, wellesley, and mit as a big reach
my gpa right now is 4.377 weighted, and i’m not sure about my unweighted gpa. this year i’m taking honors physics, latin 2, ap spanish, ap lang, ap calc bc, and apush.
next year, i’ll be taking ap gov, ap latin, ap bio, ap lit, ap calc bc, and spanish classes at my local state university.
i haven’t taken the sat yet, but i got 1490 on the psat with no studying. i’ll be taking it for the first time in march
extracurriculars:
member and secretary of gsa for the past 4 years. we also create presentations on cultural competency for youth serving professionals around the nation.
captain of english academic superbowl team, past 2 years.
job 15 hours/week as page at public library, since august 2017
volunteer with program that provides free books to incarcerated people 3 hours/week, past year
intern at language conservancy, helping to build level 1 textbook for acoma keres language (3 hours/week, started jan 2018!)
member of operation smile (raises money for oral surgery for people in impoverished countries) since this year, because it was just founded this year
latin club member
participant in immersive spanish program summer 2017 in spain
participant in college-level swahili education program summer 2015
awards:
best linguistic student in aforementioned spanish program
achievement in honors biology, honors chemistry, honors world history
high honor roll for all years of high school
demographics:
i’m white, but i’m a lesbian. my family makes ~80k annually, but my parents are both college educated and my mom has her masters
thank you all for any help!