<p>Hello! I've been thinking about trying for a few schools out East, including UChicago, Georgetown SFS, Amherst, Williams, and Brown. I'd like to see if I should even bother applying. I'm mostly concerned about my rank. :(</p>
<p>A little bit about me:
Grade: 12
Ethnicity: Asian-American
Gender: Female
State: California
Intended Major: International Relations or Political Science</p>
<p>I'd also like to minor in Russian (or another equally cool language)</p>
<p>Possible Hooks: First Generation</p>
<p>I attend an extremely small(~240 kids), but fairly competitive, public high school in a not so good part of California. We don't have APs or sports, but we are on a college campus and we take college classes in addition to our regular high school classes.</p>
<p>Because we have such a small class size, my rank (percentile wise) is not too great, which is one of my main worries.</p>
<p>I have around 30 units from college classes I've taken, not including this year.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.92 UW</p>
<p>Rank: 8/56</p>
<p>ACT: 35 C
34 English
33 Math
36 Reading
36 Science
11 Essay
34 Combined English/Writing</p>
<p>I took Literature & US History subject tests last month; I hope those went well!</p>
<p>Senior Year Courseload:</p>
<p>High School Classes:
-English 12 CP
-AVID 12 Senior Seminar (all students are required to take AVID)
-Academic Decathlon
-Physical Education
-Government CP (fall)
-Economics CP (spring)</p>
<p>College Classes
-Intro to Psychology (Fall)
-Child and Adolescent Development (Fall)
-English Composition (Fall)
-Psychology Honors Program (Fall)
-Intro to Music (Spring)
-Intro to Sociology (Spring)
-English Composition: Critical Thinking (Spring)</p>
<p>Awards:
- _______ College Outstanding Student Award-Social Science</p>
<p>-______ County Academic Decathlon First Place: Music</p>
<p>-______ County Academic Decathlon First Place: Super Quiz</p>
<p>-______ County Academic Decathlon First Place: Social Science</p>
<p>-National Merit Commended Student</p>
<p>-Various school honor roll awards</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>-Academic Decathlon:
Captain (12)
Treasurer (11)
Starter (11)</p>
<p>-Speech and Debate Club
President (12)
Treasurer (11)</p>
<p>-Service Club (focused on fighting hunger in the community)
Vice-President (12)
Secretary (11)</p>
<p>-Student Government
Director of Student Activities (12)
-In charge of planning school events, such as prom and formals.</p>
<p>-Key Club
Member (10, 11, 12)</p>
<p>Volunteer:</p>
<p>-Congressional Campaign Intern
-I interned for a congressional campaign for around 30 hours last summer.</p>
<p>-Food Bank Volunteer
-I volunteer monthly at a food bank as part of my service club!</p>
<p>-Cookie Care Package Packer
-Our club also used to pack donated cookies into care packages for the homeless, although we stopped doing it this year.</p>
<p>Work Experience:</p>
<p>-Student Poll Worker
-I don't even know if this has any significance, but I worked at the polls for Election Day! It was very interesting, and it gave me a sense of civic duty, haha.</p>
<p>Summer Programs:</p>
<p>-Stanford PreCollegiate Studies- International Relations
-I know that these programs aren't looked very fondly upon by admissions officers, seeing as they're pricy. However, I was lucky enough to receive a scholarship to attend one, and I thoroughly enjoyed my experience! It cemented my desire to major in IR (or something related).</p>
<p>Thank you so much for taking the time to read through this! I know this is probably an extremely busy time for everyone, but good luck to all of you who are applying! I'm sure you'll all go far!</p>
<p>Thanks again! :)</p>
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