<p>dont worry the initial screening in the ivies…your essay has to be inspiring…really really good…like it should make you stand out of the applicant pool. and your ec’s should be conveyed to the adcoms and in the supp. app. easily…because my cousin who had a 3.2 gpa and mediocre ec’s got there because of his extraordinary life experience. he went to afghanistan to help the people there who were badly affected by war. he was then unable to leave afghanistan because of the taliban(long story)…he wrote about how, for a good education, he got away from them. remember inspiring moments from yur volunteering etc and write them…
shahrez</p>