Chance me!

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<p>Here are my stats and other things of that sort:</p>

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<li>White lesbian female from Long Island. Average public school.</li>
<li>SAT: 2160
V: 760
M: 650 (unfortunate, I know.)
W: 750
ACT:
31 first time, 32 second time (28/29 math, 36/34 reading, 30/31 science, 31/32 english, 32/32 writing)
GPA: about 96 u/w, about 117.5 weighted (all APs and honors courses)
Rank: 2/427
APs: 5 on European History, 5 on US History, 5 on English Lang. and Comp, 2 on Physics B (heh...I made a really nice doodle of a house on that test)
SAT IIs: 690 on Bio E, 770 on US History
All APs senior year (B/C Calc, French, Biology, Literature, Government)
EC's:</li>
<li><p>Massive political stuff (youngest member of a group Responsible Wealth, member of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, started my own 501(c)3 online youth activist org. during the 2004 election cycle, had congressional briefings with 10 congressmen and senators, held two press conferences on preserving the estate tax and was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor and all publications on Scripps-Howard news service, worked on a friend's dad's congressional campaign, lobbied congress twice on the estate tax, and did Model Congress. Whew.)</p></li>
<li><p>First US Senate Page sponsored by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. I was a page for the Fall semester.</p></li>
<li><p>Have been involved in every theatrical production at my school since freshman year. We do three shows a year...I've gotten leads for two shows each year since 9th grade, and been house manager for the remaining show for three years solidly.</p></li>
<li><p>Worked on outside children's theater productions as well as acting as lighting manager for a show a friend wrote and had produced.</p></li>
<li><p>Secretary (10th), Treasurer (11th), President (12th) of my school's Drama Club</p></li>
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<p>Community Service:
- Rebuilt houses over a week in Pittsburgh with the Pittsburgh Project
- YSOP in DC and NYC (served in soup kitchens for a week in DC, a weekend in NYC)
- Sunday School helper freshman year
- Food for Soldiers Project (the Senate Pages created and assembled care packages for soldiers in Iraq)
- Crop Walk for Hunger</p>

<p>Honors: US Senate Page Program, National Honors Society, French Honors Society, English Honors Society, Social Studies Honors Society, high honor roll and high honor roll with distinction all quarters, and I received the Harvard Book Award.
Work Experience: Page Program, was a camp counselor one summer (pssh.)</p>

<p>Recs are really good from two teachers and guidance counselor, as well as really great supplemental rec from Senator Clinton herself. Essays are pretty good too, but they need a little tweaking before I send.=D</p>

<p>Chances?</p>

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<p>And...I decided to propose my major as Social Policy.</p>

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<p>I would say pretty good chances.</p>

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<p>Looks good! Don't underestimate the power of the essay, though; do the tweaking you mentioned, and I'd say you've got a great chance.</p>

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<p>Good chance, I'd say.</p>

<p>BTW, you were a senate page? Was it just this or last year?</p>

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<p>Last fall. Were you a page too? (Your sn seems to indicate something like that...=D)</p>

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<p>I also paged, spring and summer 2006 in the House! Which senator was your sponsor?</p>

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<p>Senator Clinton. Who was yours?</p>

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<p>Ooh, Clinton. I delivered something to her office once. :)</p>

<p>My sponsor was Congressman Stark, California 13th district. Did u ever have lunch or anything with Clinton?</p>

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<p>sorry to butt in but how old to you have to be to page???</p>

<p>Do you have to do it in the summer?</p>

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<p>Yeah, I got to have lunch with her and her COS once in the Senators' Dining Room...it was awwwesome.</p>

<p>You have to be at least 16 to be a page, and a junior in high school (for school, for summer you can be entering senior year I believe). You can do it in on the House or Senate site for either of the summer sessions, fall semester, or spring semester. I was a fall semester page, and going during the school year gives a much better experience of being a page. School year is kinda like camp congress, but if that's the only experience, you can have, take it! It's completely worth it!</p>

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<p>Yeah, you can be going to your senior year for the summer page job. I was a summer page as a junior going into my senior year.</p>