<p>Background:
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[<em>]Biracial (White/Hispanic)
[</em>]~5000 hours of community service total for four years (:[list]
[<em>]Helping 2nd graders write advanced stories: 4 years
[</em>]Tutor for elementary schoolers: 4 years
[<em>]TeenLine: 2 years
[</em>]Going to El Salvador to live with a family in poverty for a few days.
[<em>]Lots of others in between![/ul]
[li]Currently working for the Congressional Award![/li][</em>]Languages spoken: English, Spanish, Arabic, German, some Japanese, and some Hebrew.
[<em>]School doesn't rank.
[</em>]I have an incredible art portfolio to use as a supplement.
[li]Here's some background on my school situation: I suffered with a disease that kept me incapacitated throughout my whole ninth grade year. As a result, I did poorly and failed many classes. However, this was just because of the illness because my teachers had bragged about me previously. This was also a rigorous private school that expected me to behave as a normal student when I clearly wasn't. I asked to be removed from the school because I didn't want to jeopardize my chances for college. Since I didn't finish the second semester, I only had credit for the first semester of most of those classes.</p>[/li]
<p>However, I switched to a very flexible alternative school that uses a one-on-one approach to teaching (which worked perfectly with me because while I don't have a learning disorder or trouble learning, I'm gifted and always felt held back in my classes). I've fixed my GPA and it's been up since, and I'm ready to apply for college!
[li]I have excellent teacher recommendations because I'm friends with all my teachers. :D</p>[/li]
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<p>Grades:</p>
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[<em>]Freshman GPA: 4.0 [not counting my first school].
[</em>]Sophmore GPA: 4.0 [all honors]
[li]Junior GPA: 4.0 [all honors][/li][li]Senior year will be all honors.[/li][LIST]
[li]This school doesn't have an AP program. I mention this because I obviously couldn't take APs, and all honors is extremely rigorous at this school... in fact, I'm the only one to have ever done so.[/li][/ul]</p>
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<p>Test Scores:
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[<em>]PSAT: 210
[</em>]SAT: 2300
[<em>]ACT: 35
[</em>]SAT II:[LIST]
[<em>]Math: 700
[</em>]US History: 760
[<em>]Biology: 700
[</em>]Spanish: 800
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[<em>]APs:[ul]
[li]Psychology: 5[/li][</em>]Chemistry: 4
[li]Spanish: 5[LIST][/li][li]These were all self-studied, as my school doesn't have APs![/li][/ul]
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<p>Extracurriculars:
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[<em>]Tae Kwon Do: 8 years
[</em>]Intensive Art: 5 years
[<em>]Self-studied Piano: 4 years
[</em>]Self-studied German: 4 years
[<em>]Guitar: 2 years
[</em>]Student Council: 7 years [middle school and high school!][LIST]
[li]President during Senior year![/li][/ul]</p>
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<p>Applying to:
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[<em>]Brown
[</em>]RISD[LIST]
[<em>]Brown/RISD Dual Degree
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[li]UCLA[/li][</em>]UCD
[<em>]Stanford
[</em>]University of Chicago</p>
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<p>Anything I should add or leave out? Advice for the essay, personal statement, or anything else is 100% appreciated!</p>
<p>Thanks, and remember to leave a link!</p>
