<p>I'm currently a sophomore at a high school in Florida. I am not a minority, but I am Catholic female, if that does anything(?).</p>
<p>3.7 GPA (By the end of the semester I'll have a 4.17, and by the time I graduate, a 4.45 if I continue to get all A's.)
National Honor Society (aiming for President by senior year)
Key Club - (been involved for 2 years)
Color guard - (2 years, and I will be captain for the next two - junior and senior year)
Weightlifting - 2 years (will continue throughout)
Track & Field - 2 years (will continue throughout)
French club - 2 years (will continue throughout)
Interact club - 2 years (will continue throughout)
Girl Scouts - 10 years
250+ Community service hours
I will have more ECs by the time I graduate, it's just that most of them aren't offered to us until junior year.</p>
<p>I have taken AP World History, and I received a 4 on the test. Next year I am taking APUSH and AP Chem. In math, my only honors class was Honors Geometry, but right now I have a 98% average in Algebra 2, and my teacher told me he was recommending me for an AP Pre-Calc class. I'm currently taking Eng. Hon. 2. I will be taking 4 years of French, and most likely AP French.
I go to a public school and there are only around 5 or 6 AP classes offered.</p>
<p>SAT: My SAT score was around 1900, but I'm still only a sophomore. I have been studying like crazy and I'm definitely retaking it next year.</p>
<p>I am very interested in Political Science and Government. I was also thinking about maybe majoring in Political Science and minoring in French, or something along those lines. </p>
<p>Schools:</p>
<h1>1 choice - Cornell (My uncle is the lacrosse coach. I don't know if that can help me at all, though.)</h1>
<p>Syracuse U
Dartmouth
NYU
Georgetown
Rutgers
Vanderbilt
Northeastern
Brown
Duke</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>You need to get your SAT over a 2250 to be really competitive, and keep working on your GPA. Your ECs are good, but in the next two years you need to focus on getting leadership positions. Be sure to load up on all the APs you can. If you can pull all of that off, you’ll have a shot at every school on your list, but you won’t really be a sure thing at any of them. Having an uncle who works for Cornell is a big advantage, too.</p>
<p>On a side note, if you’re thinking PoliSci, I would suggest Georgetown, NYU, and Duke all over Cornell.</p>
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<p>Religion doesn’t matter; being a white female is a pretty crappy situation to be in as a college applicant (welcome to the club lol). </p>
<p>Come back to CC next year with a solid SAT score, and in that time, work on your ECs. Focus. A smattering of school clubs means less than one serious, upper level accomplishment, whether that be a state officer of a club or an award winner. Not having ECs available until junior year is not an excuse (not to mention really weird), since you can pursue your interests outside of school. Honestly, I’d cut the majority of your clubs and go searching for something more compelling–what are you interested in?</p>
<p>…There is no such thing as AP Pre-Calc. </p>
<p>Work the SAT. Find a good, solid EC that you’re passionate about. Try and get some demonstrated leadership. </p>
<p>Good luck. :)</p>
<p>There’s no such thing as AP Pre-Calc? My teacher told me there was. Haha, interesting.</p>
<p>And I really have no clue what I’m interested in. I do enjoy politics (obviously), but seeing as I live in a super small town, I’m not totally sure how I’d get involved in them. I’ve been talking to my parents about maybe volunteering at the courthouse or something, but I don’t know how I would go about that.</p>
<p>Anyways, thank you for the advice. Yeah, about not having ECs available to us until junior year is weird. I will definitely take everything you have all said :)</p>
<p>Thanks again.</p>