<p>I've been dreaming of going to Gtown's McDonough School of Business for some time now. Please be honest-- any opinions are greatly appreciated! Other schools of interest are George Washington U and The American University. Hoping to pursue international business. Probably applying EA to Georgetown.</p>
<p>School Stuff
-Female, 1/2 white 1/2 Filipino (I've been checking the Pacific Islander box on the ethnicity question though..? Would that help?)
-Definitely do not qualify for need-based financial aid :/
-One of the top 5 students of ~600...not sure which of the 5... but my percentile is 99.07%
-Weighted GPA 4.75, UW 3.975 (one B, junior year)
-Frosh/Soph year: full honors course load
-Junior/Senior year: full IB course load (+CAS, Extended Essay, etc)
-30 ACT, 2000 SAT, 680 Spanish SAT II and 620 Math I (I don't like these numbers; just retook the ACT last week and retaking SAT/IIs next month... but apparently a 30 ACT number falls into the mid 50 of GU's range?)
-Current senior year course load: IB English 7-8, AP Calc BC 1-2, IB Bio 5-6, IB Design Tech, IB Theory of Knowledge, and IB 20 Cent World His
-I took the IB Spanish exam last year and got a (6) but this unfortunately was an SL test... all of my other AP/IB tests will be taken at the end of my Senior year, so colleges won't see any of em</p>
<p>Extracurriculars
-Concert pianist (played for 14 years), graduating Level 12 of the Arizona Study Program in spring 2012
-Founder/Co-President/Main Accompaist of North Canyon Music Co., a club that goes to various retirement facilities around the valley and performs community service (it's actually really fun haha)
-4-Year Varsity tennis player and Co-Captain, won some small junior USTA tournament a couple years ago
-Pianist for Phoenix CityJazz, a jazz group that plays for a bunch of city events downtown for community service
-President of Spanish Honors Society
-Vice Prez of the Young Democrats club at my school
-Frosh volleyball, captain of JV Soccer
-member of NHS (but who isn't?)</p>
<p>Work Experience
-Gymnastics Coach for a few months of 2009 (worst job ever)
-Currently a piano instructor to mostly little kids (done this for ~4 years now)</p>
<p>Summer Stuff
-Took a Macroeconomics course at UCSD summer 2010
-Took a Global Business course at Brown University summer 2011</p>
<p>Other
-I organized a benefit recital with my best friend for the Japan Earthquake Relief and Pacific Tsunami Fund shortly after those horrific earthquakes hit Japan. We organized everything through a site called Citizen Effect. Planning it all took an extensive amount of time, but the hardest part was getting our repertoire up to par (it was a piano concert) because we each had to perform ~45 mins of memorized pieces. We held 5 different concerts at 4 different venues. Our original fundraising goal was $3000, but after the first 2 concerts, we upped it to $5000. At the end of the whole thing we managed to raise $5,060 for Japan. I'm really proud of what we did and I had a wonderful time doing this all in the process. If I have no other hook, I'm hoping this will be it...</p>
<p>I am also currently learning French via Rosetta Stone. Besides music, language is my greatest skill and true passion! Hoping to learn as many new languages as I can so I can travel everywhere in my future business endeavors. ;)</p>
<p>Thanks so much for reading over this, and again, I value all input greatly!</p>