<p>I'm a junior at a competative private school.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.8 unweighted (mostly As and A-s)
Course Load: 4 honors, 1 ap so far... (next year will have 3-4 more honors/aps)
ECS:
President/Founder of Political and Creative Writing Club at school
Features Editor of school newspaper (since freshman year)
Member of Mu Alpha Theta, national honorary math society
Member of French Honors Society
Member of SADD, Social Justice Club, Diversity Club, and Itenerary(school's literary magazine)
Photography
CREW
Part of a Persian organization in the city
Opened my own online boutique (manage the business, create inventory, take care of public relations, designed website/line, take photographs/make ads)
Advisory Representative in Student Council FRESHMAN YEAR ONLY</p>
<p>Work/INternships
Interned at a law firm
Math tutor
Dance teacher/babysitter
Took a summer art history course in Italy
Attended the Columbia Scholastic Press Association at Columbia University</p>
<p>Awards/Recognitions
Best Algebra Student Book Award
2 Journalism Awards from Dallas Morning News</p>
<p>HOOKS: 1st generation Persian. Passionate about writing, philosophy, architecture, and photography.</p>
<p>SCHOOLS
Penn State
University of Penn
USC
UCLA
Stanford
Brown
Duke
UNC-chapel hill
Notre Dame
College of Charleston
Pepperdine</p>
<p>Props for being 1st gen Persian! (me too:) )</p>
<p>Because you are a junior, you are going to get a lot of crap for having a chances thread on CC. This is a warning because frankly, people get kind of nasty, and I don’t think half of the things they say are at all necessary. But I will say that you are well on track. For Brown, Duke, UPenn, and Stanford try to get a good ACT/SAT score-like above a 31/32 or a 2100. The higher the better, but do not do what a lot of us did and stress so much about test scores that you forgot about other things, like your sanity. It did me no good. </p>
<p>Start thinking about which SAT Subject Tests you want to take, instead of doing what I am doing and taking them at the very last minute with minimal studying. If you just finished world history-freshen up and take the test in December for example. Think ahead so you can take them on separate test dates. </p>
<p>the fact that you have already had internship/work experience is awesome. do more of that next summer. this year, focus on your GPA, take as many honors/ap courses as you think you can handle, but don’t exceed your limit. </p>
<p>Be awesome in your classes to get some good recs:)</p>
<p>And most importantly, do not get hung up on what CC says about everything. I am. The best advice I could ever give is that you should keep a perspective outside of this little highly concentrated community of overachievers. We are all insane. And the obnoxious (no offense guys) kids on here who are freaking out about their 2350’s not being 2400’s are not the types of people you want to model yourself on. They should know that they can get into great schools based on more than a perfect SAT score.
Most of your chances lie in what you chose to do with the next year of your life. Make it count. But as for right now, you have a solid base for an awesome application!</p>
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