<p>okay. i've done this three times now because my dumb computer logs me out every single time. i'm lazy at this point so here's everything. post your thread and i'll chance back!</p>
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<li>caucasian male attending prestigious private school in CT</li>
<li>no financial aid necessary</li>
<li>starting junior year soon (class of '13)</li>
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<p>gpa:
3.59 (89.75%) UW. i know it's really low. bad freshman first semester.
frosh year: spanish 2h (b-, a); algebra 2h (b-, b+); history (b, b+); english (b-, a-); biology (b-, a); band (a-, a-).
sophomore year: spanish 3h (a-, a); english (a-, a); history (a, a-); chem (a+, a-); geo/trig (a-, a-); choir (a, a-).</p>
<p>(frosh and soph year, only more rigorous classes i could've taken were: ap modern euro- may take senior year instead of p, f & pwriting... necessary?, honors bio, honors chem, honors geo/trig)</p>
<p>junior year: ap envi sci, ap us history, honors english, pre-calculus, honors spanish 4, choir, international relations.
senior year: ap spanish, ap english, fundamentals of calc & ap stats, poetry fiction & playwriting, global thesis seminar, physics, chamber choir.</p>
<p>high honors society both semesters sophomore year and second semester freshman year.</p>
<p>headmaster's list (contributes most to overall classroom learning environment) both semesters sophomore year.</p>
<p>inducted into foreign language honors society at the end of sophomore year.</p>
<p>class rank:
due to sucky freshman year, about 10/75. (no official rank)</p>
<p>sat's (taken recently without sat prep other than vocab studying- will be getting lots of prep):
700 cr
670 m
670 w</p>
<p>psat's (beginning of sophomore year):
670 cr
640 m
590 w</p>
<p>intended major is business unless not available, in which case i will attempt to major in economics (cas).</p>
<p>extra curriculars (in order of importance):</p>
<ul>
<li><p>founded literary magazine at beginning of sophomore year that donates proceeds to organization that works to alleviate child labor in third world countries; remain founder and editor-in-chief; expanding project to include around 20 associate staff editors.</p></li>
<li><p>runner-up for 2011 elizabeth bishop prize in verse sponsored by the blue pencil online- attended their inaugural ceremony to read work; they published my poem</p></li>
<li><p>2011 scholastic art & writing awards- gold key for five poems</p></li>
<li><p>editor of high school literary magazine starting junior year (earliest you can do it); staff member sophomore year.</p></li>
<li><p>writing in over 115 independently-owned publications (some are extremely selective); featured on my school's website, being featured in school's annual report magazine this year</p></li>
<li><p>will graduate high school with concentration in global studies (will have taken global service trip, up to 4h of language (spanish), will have analyzed current global issue and written thesis about it (senior year seminar).</p></li>
<li><p>leadership position in global education community service club at my high school starting junior year.</p></li>
<li><p>bass/bairtone in all-male a cappella group at high school starting sophomore year; won 3rd place in all-state a cappella championship sophomore year.</p></li>
<li><p>played piano in young musician's festival (competitive musician program in march every year) freshman year-- intermediate 10/10 stars.</p></li>
<li><p>model un- travelled to georgetown's naimun conference sophomore year, will again junior year.</p></li>
<li><p>attended middlebury's new england young writers conference as a sophomore (meant for juniors)</p></li>
<li><p>stanford epgy sophomore summer (studied creative writing intensively, three weeks; no college credit)</p></li>
<li><p>volunteer camp counselor freshman summer- took care of autistic child for six weeks</p></li>
<li><p>member of columbia university's student film actors pool (act in student films there)</p></li>
<li><p>in-depth research of cuban poetry scene sophomore spring (they are silenced due to cuban rule; wrote up short thesis/report about it complete with interviews and analyzed data, in spanish)</p></li>
<li><p>two improv groups (will lead both senior year)</p></li>
<li><p>perform songs often at coffeehouses and school performances</p></li>
<li><p>played piano in band freshman year; sing in choir sophomore year through to senior year.</p></li>
<li><p>photography in dickinson college's foreign language magazine.</p></li>
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<p>essays and recs and interview will be great.</p>
<p>connections (are these even useful?)
- very good relationship with someone on board of northwestern, willing to help me with rec.
- very good relationship with someone very very involved with brown (alumni), willing to help me with rec and possibly interview.
- tufts creative writing professor submitted to my literary magazine.
- legacy @ georgetown.
- student at columbia involved in my literary magazine staff.
- sought out all-male a cappella groups from amherst and hopkins-- getting arrangements from them.
- getting lunch with uchicago creative writing professor when i visit the school.
- good relationship with alumni from cornell willing to write rec.</p>
<p>OKAY. so after all of that information (sorry!), here are the schools i'm very interested in:
brown ed
georgetown
amherst
johns hopkins
columbia
tufts
usc
northwestern
uchicago
cornell</p>
<p>and of course some safeties (perhaps suggest some more?):
american
kenyon
uconn
umiami</p>
thanks guys!</p>