<p>Alright, now that I have your attention...</p>
<p>White male, a junior from a competitive area in the Northeast, top income bracket. I don't think I'm getting any help from Affirmative Action to say the least. My school sends A LOT of kids to top schools relative to our class size, which is a tad under 200. I don't think our school's valedictorian has ever been turned down from a HYP school (no joke) and the top 10-20 students usually end up in a tip-top university or LAC. </p>
<p>UW GPA Cumulative: 3.88 for all high school classes I've taken, including two in 8th grade. I was an absolute and utter slacker until sophomore year but I did have so much fun. </p>
<p>UW GPA (grades. 10-11): 3.98 (one A-). I have also taken the toughest courses possible.</p>
<p>SAT: 2400 (second attempt, single sitting score)
PSAT: 231, well into NMSF territory</p>
<p>SAT II's: 800 on World History, scores pending on Math IIC and Physics, probably 760-780ish on Math II and 760-790 on Physics</p>
<p>AP's: 5 on World History, scores pending on English Language, Physics B, US History. I'm reasonably sure I got a 5 on APUSH and English but I'll have to hear my score on Physics to be sure. I go to a pretty small elite public school so the number of AP's I've taken is the most pretty much anybody takes without "skipping" a grade level. Next year I will be taking Calc BC, Spanish, English Lit, Econ, Psych. </p>
<p>EC's</p>
<p>-Editor of a creative writing publication at my school all four years
-Officer position in Speech and Debate (don't want to identify myself)
-Very high officer position in a peer-to-peer writing program at my school that has won state awards (again, don't want to give too many details)
-MUN and several other other EC's and honor societies that I don't hold an officer position in and am too lazy to list</p>
<p>-I've wrestled Varsity for four years, got some kind of honor/award for being good every year (All-County, All-Conference) but I'm not really talented enough or dedicated enough to wrestle well on the college level. </p>
<p>-I go to the gym regularly and have been working out consistently since 8th grade, if that counts for anything. From 8th-10th grade I would spend hours a day reading articles, books, etc. about weight lifting so I'm a walking encyclopedia about every different routine and scientific nuance of working out, although less so than I used to. Heck, I used to know the differences in the amino acid profiles of whey and casein protein powder and exactly what this meant for development.</p>
<p>Awards</p>
<p>-National Silver Medalist, Scholastic Writing Awards. Around 1% of applicants get a national award and the ceremony is in Carnegie Hall so I thought this was a pretty big deal.</p>
<p>-Gold Key Winner two categories of Scholastic Writing Awards.</p>
<p>-3rd in category, Brigham Young University Writing Contest</p>
<p>-Nominated for NCTE Achievement Award, status pending</p>
<p>-A boatload of local writing awards and contest winnings</p>
<p>-National Spanish Exam Silver Medalist</p>
<p>-Winner of a school math contest where, to the surprise of many people in my school, I dominated several people who have gotten these big regional math awards and are pretty much math/science geeks. </p>
<p>-Got a Book Award from my school's Social Studies Dept. they basically give to the junior who's best in history and social sciences</p>
<p>-Got a local science award in physics</p>
<p>-Will be going to Boys State in a week or so, this is a pretty big deal in my school.</p>
<p>If this means anything, I will be submitting a political psychology project to the Intel Competition this fall through my school's Social Science Research program and will also be applying for a Presidential Scholarship in the Arts in the writing division. Also, I'm still waiting on several national and regional competitions in writing and the humanities with my fingers crossed. </p>
<p>Summers</p>
<p>This summer I am traveling extensively in several Asian nations, some of which are pretty "rough". Through a student travel organization. Mostly it's for touring/cultural purposes but a week of it is community service based. I did something similar last summer and prior to that it was just wrestling camp. Traveling, along with writing, really is a passion of mine. Even though you do have to be in one of the upper income brackets to have the opportunities to do so, I'm hoping to show this passion in my application. </p>
<p>Rec's/Essay</p>
<p>I don't want to waste anyone's time by talking about what I think my rec's will be because that's just too subjective and speculative for the purposes of this thread.</p>
<p>My essay will most likely be centered around traveling or writing, as those are my true passions. Overall I think I've done pretty good in the EC world because I always remain true to myself and never really do anything just for the sake of doing it. Hopefully this will help my passions to show through. </p>
<p>Chance me for:</p>
<p>Stanford (I visited, fell in love, and will apply SCEA)
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
Brown
Duke
Dartmouth
WUSTL
Rice
Vanderbilt</p>