I am a white male from NYS (not NYC) who goes to a pretty competitive Catholic High School.
I am applying to:
UCLA, USC, UCSD, UCSB, Cal, UCI, Santa Clara, LMU, Georgetown, BC, Fordham, Villanova, GW, American and Emory
GPA: Freshman Year - 88.7 Sophmore Year - 90.7 Junior Year - 95.6 (School does not rank)
AP Courses: AP Euro, APUSH, AP Gov/Macroeconomics, AP Lang, AP Psych
Honors Courses: Spanish 3H, Precalculus H
SAT - 1470 Composite (740 RW, 730 M) 1480 SS (750, 730) also taking again in October
Extracurriculars:
- Varsity Golf - Sophmore to senior year
- Varsity Squash - Junior and Senior Year - Won National Champipnship in our division Junior year
- Youth and Government - Junior and Senior Year
- Model UN - Junior and Senior Year
- Newspaper Club - Senior Year - a bunch of friends and I restarted the paper senior year - Head Sports Editor
- Young Democrats Club - All four years - Club President Senior Year
- Youth Leadership (Insert City Here) - Junior Year - 1 year program to help us learn how to be leaders in our community - Raised $1000 for my groups service project for a local charity
- Brady Campaign (Insert City Here) - Co-founder and VP - restarted my city’s Brady campaign chapter with my father
Service:
- 125 hours total
- Was Part of my schools service trip program - Spent a week in the inner city with kids from my class working at a soup kitchen, mission mall, and school.
- Various other volunteering jobs
One thing to note:
I suffered from pretty debilitating depression my freshman year and first half of sophomore year. I literally couldn’t do anything and my grades took a massive hit because of it. I didn’t get involved in clubs, didn’t do do homework, didn’t do anything. After many years and medications, I eventually beat it and my grades improved and I became more active outside of the classroom.