<p>Hi! Thanks for reading this and for your opinions!</p>
<p>-Rising Senior
-first gen college student
-low income family, and divorced. (~$40K for my dad, ~20K for my mom, but I receive none of her income and don't see her, so I'm not sure what that'll be like for the FAFSA)
-Rank: 4/221 cumulative, 3/221 Junior Year
-97% cumulative unweighted GPA, 4.8 weighted GPA (I'm pretty sure. I'm not really sure how the whole weighted and unweighted thing works.)</p>
<p>-Freshman Year: All honors courses, no AP courses available
-Sophomore Year: AP World History (no others available), all other classes were Honors
-Junior Year: AP Bio, APUSH, Pre-AP Chem, Pre-AP English, Honors Pre-Calculus
-Senior Year: AP Chemistry, AP Calc, AP English, AP Mac.econ., AP Gov't, Honors Physics (no AP available)</p>
<p>--All A's for all of my classes, except for Honors Algebra II, which I got an 85% in.</p>
<p>-- Took spanish 2 at my high school freshman year(spanish 1 in eighth grade), but because of schedule constraints, I had to take french my sophomore year, but then that class was cut my Junior year, so I am taking spanish 2 at my local Penn State campus since spanish 2 at my high school was really a more difficult spanish 1. So overall, I have 4 years of languages, and three years of one language. </p>
<p>-Concert Band 4 years
-Marching Band 4 years
-Wind Ensemble 3 years
-Concertmaster of Concert Band and Wind Ensemble 2 years
-Section Leader(CB&WE) 3 years
-first soloist in clarinet section (CB&WE)2 years</p>
<p>-Currently in NHS, might be president next year! :D
-founded a language club Junior Year, President
-started a fandom club Junior Year, and am President (just for fun, and we want to help underclassmen find friends in their same fandoms!)
-FBLA since my sophomore year and will be a project representative senior year (this will include competition, community service, and writing a thirty page paper on the project). </p>
<p>-I work for my family business, which takes up A LOT of my time (usually more than thirty hours a week during the school year, about fourty during the summer). I am a manager there and have worked there (officially) since I was fourteen. My job and commitment to the business are the reasons my ECs are lacking.</p>
<p>-120 hours community service at nursing home, 70 hours working for a community organization, and about 30 hours between NHS and FBLA stuff. </p>
<p>-Awards: Department Award for Band (sophomore year and junior year) and Department Award for Academic Achievement in Science (Junior Year)</p>
<p>-Subject tests: 740 on Biology M and 570 on World History. I plan on retaking Biology M and taking the Literature Subject test, and will get better scores. </p>
<p>-SAT: I took them in March and got a 1980 (640 Math, 620 CR, and 720 Writing). I took them in June for the first time thinking I'd get a 2100.. eesh. I'm retaking them, too. Hopefully I'll get around a 2100; I'll study more this time around. But for the chancing, let's just pretend that I'm applying with this score. </p>
<p>The Colleges:</p>
<p>Wesleyan University (my #1, will ED1 in November)
Vassar College (#2, if Wes doesn't work out, I'll go ED2 in January with them)
Cornell (CAS)
Bates
Northeastern University
Skidmore College
Amherst
Haverford
UPenn
Williams
Carnegie </p>
<p>-Also, do any of you know how my languages will affect my chances (especially LACs like Wesleyan and Vassar)? My schedule for languages is pretty unfocused, and I only have three years of Spanish put in. I'm trying to take another Spanish Class at any local college, but they don't have any evening classes open (I've emailed all of them). I'm really worried about it. </p>
<p>Thanks for the input!</p>