Ethnicity: Latino Jew
High School: Really diverse suburban school
Stats:
New Sat: 1310
ACT: 28
GPA: 3.95/4.0 (School has very odd GPA system, so weighted = unweighted, very confusing)
Top 15%
Took all Honor course throughout high school
Took APUSH, AP Physics 1 Junior Year
Taking AP Calc AB, AP Computer Science, and taking an independent study for AP Macro and Micro
Involved with a selective class with my school, its a teen mentoring class (I am a mentor, not sure if that class will help but doesn’t hurt to talk about it)
EC:
Jewish Youth Organization:
- Been apart of it since 6th grade
- Held multiple leadership positions (Freshman representative, vice president, co-president)
Junior Statesman of America
Over 300+ hours of community service (Gone on multiple service trips across the United States, Was apart of a Oral history program with a local elderly home my freshman year)
Worked as a camp counselor at a refugee camp for kids in Israel
Science National Honor Society Member
National Honor Society Member
Sophomore Student Council Vice President
Prom Committee
Diller Teen Fellow: Its a highly selective Jewish fellowship; its 15 months long, we basically do leadership and community service based programs and travel to Israel, also is international found in Argentina, South Africa, England, Australia, and Israel
Varsity Swim Team since Freshman year
Work Experience:
Lifegaurd working about 6-10 hours a week since Sophomore year
Hebrew Tutor at local Jewish after school program Freshman and Sophomore year
Skills:
Fluent in three languages; English, Spanish and Hebrew
Essays:
Honest Rating (1-10)
Common App: 8.5 Wrote about the significance of my name but in a way that like it represents my identity and what it means to be jewish latino and how my jewish friends perceive me versus school friends who are mainly black and latino themselves
Supps:
(Ill just write about the U Penn and UV.a supp)
U Penn: Strong 9 I worked on it for weeks with one of the top english teachers, I know U Penn is a super reach for me but a really good essay may help?
UV.a: I applied to Arts and Sciences, my essays were like a 7 and a 9 but the 9 definitely stood out, I also edited that with the english teacher
Chance Me for:
University of Pennsylvania (I know thats a super reach just wondering, specifically Wharton), University of Virginia, University of Maryland, American University, University of Delaware and Rutgers University- New Brunswick