<p>I'm a junior right now. </p>
<p>Objective:
* I take my SAT's for the first time next month
* GPA: cumulative, 4.2 out of 5.0. Junior year, 4.9 out of 5.0.
* Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 12%
* IB Diploma Candidate: SL Economics, SL World Religions, SL Environmental Systems, SL Math Studies, SL Art History, HL English, HL Spanish 6 (native-level Spanish literature), HL History of the Americas
* Senior Year Course Load: SL World Religions, SL Math Studies, SL Art History, HL English, HL Spanish, HL History, AP Government, Speech & Debate
* Major Awards : My school has not yet distributed PSAT scores but i have a good shot at the National Hispanic Recognition Scholarship</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Speech & Debate (competed at State), Model UN, Young Democrats (Vice President), Spanish Club </li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: Ten Thousand Villages (I work at a nonprofit organization. Technically counts as volunteer work. 100% fair trade retail organization that provides thousands of artisans with consistent, fair wages).</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: lots of CAS Hours, Amigos de las Americas (nonprofit through which I am volunteering this summer)</li>
<li>Summer Activities: This summer I am spending eight weeks in a rural Latin American community teaching children about hygiene and the environment, organizing development projects within the community, and studying the effects of microfinance firsthand through work with women's groups</li>
<li>Essays: Very Good</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: They love me. </li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Knows nothing about me, my school's college counseling program is a joke</li>
<li>Additional Rec: Debate Coach - should be good. </li>
</ul>
<p>Other</p>
<ul>
<li>State: Texas</li>
<li>School Type: Large Public School </li>
<li>Ethnicity: Hispanic</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
</ul>
<p>I want to study International Relations, Political Science, and Spanish, join the Peace Corps, and become a Foreign Service Officer. Please chance me for George Washington, American, NYU, Northeastern, Boston University, Georgetown (I know it's a huge stretch!), etc., and other schools you think are relevant. Thank you!</p>