Thank you for clicking on my post and please chance me. I am stressed and desperate.
Possible schools: NYU, Barnard, USC, and Syracuse. (USC and NYU are my tops)
Major: Journalism and most likely a double major in political science. Barnard does not offer journalism so I would apply as a political science major.
High School: large public school in Illinois, ranked around 75 in the state
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Mexican
First generation college student
GPA(my school does a 5.0 scale): 5.05 weighted, 4.7 unweighted
SAT score: 1400 (700 on both sections)
Honors/AP classes I’ve taken:
Honors/AP math all 4 years (geometry, algebra 2, pre-calc, AP calc)
Honors/AP sciences since my sophomore year(honors chem, AP physics)
Honors/AP English classes all 4 years(honors English 1&2, AP language, AP literature)
Other APs: Human geography(freshman year), AP gov & econ (senior year) AP Spanish (Senior year, after taking Spanish 2, 3 & 4 my other years)
I have gotten B’s in some of the math and science classes I’ve taken, but all As in the English/Social science classes, which I figured would help me given my major.
Activities:
Newspaper: I have taken the journalism class since sophomore year. Beginning in my junior year, I was appointed Editor-in-chief. I have also won awards at regional conferences.
Medill Northwestern Journalism Institute: I spent five weeks at Northwestern before my senior year studying journalism under Northwestern faculty and prominent journalists.
Eastern Illinois University Journalism camp: Before my junior year, I spent two weeks at EIU studying journalism under EIU faculty and local journalists.
National Honor Society: Inducted junior year
Spanish Honor Society: Inducted junior year
Spanish club: Member since sophomore year
Student Council: Member since junior year
Crew: created/painted sets for plays and musicals, was one of the members chosen to work backstage during the actual shows. Since freshman year
Math team: since Sophomore year
Founder of Model UN: My school didn’t have a chapter of Model UN so I began to work on creating one in my junior year. It is a hard to generate interest so it most likely won’t take off until after I graduate, but at least I got it going.
Thanks for reading/chancing and you can post a link to your chance me post with your response and I’ll chance you back!