<p>Alright, now that I have your attention...</p>
<p>White male, a junior from a competitive area in the Northeast, top income bracket. I don't think I'm getting any help from Affirmative Action to say the least. My school sends about a dozen kids to Ivies and half-a-dozen more from a class of about 190, we had three kids get into Yale this year. I don't think our school's valedictorian has ever been turned down from a HYP school (no joke).</p>
<p>UW GPA Cumulative: 3.88 for all high school classes I've taken, including two in 8th grade. I was an absolute and utter slacker until sophomore year but I did have so much fun. School doesn't rank but I'm pretty sure I'm top 10% at least.</p>
<p>UW GPA (grades. 10-11): 3.98 (one A-). I have also taken the toughest courses possible.</p>
<p>SAT: 2400 (second attempt, single sitting score)
PSAT: 231, well into NMSF territory where I'm from</p>
<p>SAT II's: 800 on World History, 770 Math IIC, 700 Physics</p>
<p>AP's: 5 on World History, USH, and English Language. 4 on Physics B. I go to a pretty small elite public school so the number of AP's I've taken is the most pretty much anybody takes without "skipping" a grade level. Next year I will be taking Calc BC, Spanish, English Lit, Econ, Psych. </p>
<p>EC's</p>
<p>-Editor of a creative writing publication at my school all four years
-Officer position in Speech and Debate (don't want to identify myself)
-Very high officer position in a peer-to-peer writing program at my school that has won state awards (again, don't want to give too many details)
-MUN and several other other EC's and honor societies that I don't hold an officer position in and am too lazy to list</p>
<p>-I've wrestled Varsity for four years, got some kind of honor/award for being good every year (All-County, All-Conference). I'm not really talented enough or dedicated enough to wrestle well on the college level. </p>
<p>-I go to the gym regularly and have been working out consistently since 8th grade, if that counts for anything. From 8th-10th grade I would spend hours a day reading articles, books, etc. about weight lifting so I'm a walking encyclopedia about every different routine and scientific nuance of working out, although less so than I used to. Heck, I used to know the differences in the amino acid profiles of whey and casein protein powder and exactly what this meant for development.</p>
<p>Awards</p>
<p>-National Silver Medalist, Scholastic Writing Awards. Around 1% of applicants get a national award and the ceremony is in Carnegie Hall so I thought this was a pretty big deal.</p>
<p>-Gold Key Winner, two categories of Scholastic Writing Awards.</p>
<p>-3rd in category, Brigham Young University Writing Contest</p>
<p>-Nominated for NCTE Achievement Award, status pending</p>
<p>-A boatload of local writing awards and contest winnings</p>
<p>-National Spanish Exam Silver Medalist</p>
<p>-Got a Book Award from my school's Social Studies Dept. they basically give to one junior for highest achievement, biggest bribe in history and the social sciences</p>
<p>-Winner of a school math contest where, to the surprise of many people in my school, I dominated several people who have gotten these big regional math awards and are pretty much math/science geeks. </p>
<p>-Got a local science award in physics</p>
<p>-Went to Boys' State and stumbled into a few county level positions</p>
<p>If this means anything, I will be submitting a political psychology project to the Intel Competition this fall through my school's Social Science Research program and will also be applying for a Presidential Scholarship in the Arts in the writing division. Also, I'm still waiting on several national and regional competitions in writing and the humanities with my fingers crossed. </p>
<p>Summers</p>
<p>This summer I am traveled extensively in several Asian nations, some of which are pretty "rough". Through a student travel organization. Mostly itwas for touring/cultural purposes but a week of it was community service based. I did something similar last summer and prior to that it was just wrestling camp. Traveling, along with writing, really is a passion of mine. Even though you do have to be in one of the upper income brackets to have the opportunities to do so, I'm hoping to show this passion somewhere in my application. </p>
<p>Rec's/Essay</p>
<p>I don't want to waste anyone's time by talking about what I think my rec's will be because that's just too subjective and speculative for the purposes of this thread.</p>
<p>My essays are works that will be in progress soon.</p>
<p>Chance me for the big Y!</p>