<p>Chance me please! Thanks for your help! Sorry about my inability to be brief!
UNC at Chapel Hill (my top, top choice)
UT at Austin
Penn State (University Park)
Virginia Tech
JMU--early action
University of Florida
University of Alabama</p>
<p>I want to double-major in journalism and political science.</p>
<p>My stats:
Live in Virginia (northern va-in case you are familiar)
GPA: 4.293 (weighted-my county does not give unweighted)
Class rank: unknown (my county does not have class ranks)
Class size: 650+ students in my grade. My school sends very few to top schools. Only one kid is going to Duke and Yale (both ED)</p>
<p>Schedule
Took Algebra I and Geometry HN in middle school (A and A- respecitvely as final grades)
and French 1A and 1B (both A's as final grades)</p>
<p>Freshman year: (class--final grade)
All honors- all As</p>
<p>Sophomore year:
All honors--all As
Including my school's sole AP (U.S. Gov't/Politics) 5 on exam</p>
<p>Junior year: (only 1 quarter of the way through)
IB Math SL I--A-
IB Physics I--A
IB English HL I--A
IB HOA--A
IB French I--A
IB Business SL--A (will take IB exam in May)
Journalism 3--A</p>
<p>*Not doing full IB Diploma. A ton of my friends are doing the diploma...just for the diploma. I'm taking IB classes for the learning experience. I love to learn and in the past I used to be a "perfectionist," and even though I still want to do well and achieve, I've adjusted my mindset to a healthier one. I'm doing what I want to do now, in courses and extracurriculars and I feel more in control my junior year. This may hurt my chances, but that is my decision!</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Student newspaper
freshman year: started as contributing writer, promoted to staff writer in second semester
sophomore year: copy editor, paper ranked 9th in country at NSPA convention
junior year: opinion editor
senior year: will take managing editor position</p>
<p>National Honor Society member since sophomore year</p>
<p>French Honor Society member since sophomore year</p>
<p>Camp Invention-an interactive science camp for elementary school students for 5 days in summer
summer before freshman year: junior counselor--worked with one teacher at a certain module and helped students complete tasks
summer before sophomore year: promoted to camp counselor--worked with one group of kids (fourth graders) and traveled to each module and monitored their safety during tasks/lunch/free time
summer before junior year: camp counselor role is now known as leadership intern or LI--same roles as camp counselor but I also mentor a counselor in training to help develop their leadership skills necessary to advance to higher position</p>
<p>"Taking Flight" Mentor
selected as one of 150 juniors and seniors through application process--I mentor a group of freshmen to help ease their transition to high school once a month. </p>
<p>GIVE tutor
since sophomore year I have volunteered at a local community center almost every Saturday for 2 hours and tutor younger children in French, reading, writing, and math.</p>
<p>Newseum Student Advisory Team
applied to position--only 30 students from metropolitan area accepted. We meet at the Newseum and help the outreach coordinator find ways to attract kids my age to the Newseum's exhibits. We review exhibits and give our perspective on how students will enjoy it/ what should be improved. Also act as student reps of the Newseum.</p>
<p>Test scores:
SAT: 1930 (570CR, 680M, 680W w/ 9 on essay) will retake in March (mostly to improve CR)
ACT: taking for first time in February--took a mock one and got 28 overall (31 english, 29 math, 26 reading, 25 science) w/o studying </p>
<p>I would also appreciate any other schools that you think would fit me and my interest in journalism! Preferably east coast!</p>