<p>White female from NJ
Competitive public high school -- about 250 in my graduating class
I want to study public relations.</p>
<p>Frosh & Soph year I had all A's & B's and a few honors courses.
Junior and Senior year: 2 APs (Tests: English Lang 5, US History 4), honors French, four Syracuse University Project Advance classes (Forensics, Psych, Sociology, and English), selected for NJ Teen PEP program (basically sex ed but we educate the community about issues and help the freshmen adjust to the high school)</p>
<p>I had a serious concussion before my junior year and as a result my grades plummeted and I have maybe five Cs on my junior year transcript.</p>
<p>Interview: Yes. It went really well and I explained all of the above.
I also attended one of their Fall Receptions.</p>
<p>My hooks are really my personality and resilience, and community service involvement.</p>
<p>At the end of the year I will have taken a total of 6 years of language -- 3 Honors french and Italian I - III (only levels offered in my school currently as it's a new program)</p>
<p>GPA - 3.4
SAT I: CR-680, M-630, W-700
SAT II: English Lit-670, US History-600
ACT: 27 </p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Girl Scout since second grade (pursuing Gold Award and I have my silver award), sent shipments of Girl Scout cookies to Iraq as an independent service proj, field hockey, lacrosse (soph yr only -- couldn't continue because of aforementioned concussion), track (jr year), Marching Band for 3 years, Interact club 10 11 12, Global Connections club 11&12, Italian National Honor Society (12 -- first year of this honor society in my school), 4 years volunteering at the hospital, tons of miscellaneous community service, and I have a part time job as a hostess at a local restaurant (15 hours per week), nominated for and attended the National Student Leadership Conference (Mastering Leadership), and I'm a team leader for a CCD group</p>
<p>Teacher recs: great
Counselor rec: also great (explains concussion predicament in detail)</p>
<p>Put Arts & Sciences as second choice college, and Newhouse first of course.</p>