<p>Hi, I'm a senior and I want to be chanced for HYP. Here's my stuff: </p>
<p>4.0 unweighted GPA
Rank: 2/100 </p>
<p>AP's taken during my four years: </p>
<p>AP World History (5);
AP Biology (4);
AP Chemistry (5);
AP English Language and Composition (5);
AP American History (5); </p>
<p>AP Physics; AP Psychology; AP European History; AP English Literature and Composition (N/A) </p>
<p>SAT: 2360
ACT: 35</p>
<p>EC's:
Founder & President, Environmental Club
Member of the National Honor Society
President, Book Club
Member, French Club
Member, Drama Club
Member, School Singing Ensemble (we have a name, I just can't post it!)
Member, Student Service Club
Was on Lit. Journal for three years (frosh-junior), but didn't do it this year. I spend a ton of time on sports and arts.
Student Gov. VP in Sophmore year; President in Junior; didn't run this year.
Founded my own charity in Sophmore year- raised over $300,000.
Captain of Varsity Field Hockey Team - attended several field hockey camps & intensives over the years. I've been playing since 7th grade.
Varsity Tennis Team
Played Soccer for 10 years but stopped in Sophmore year.
Volunteer Hours - 750 over these past four years. (all at similar places)
Summer pre-Sophmore year: service projects. I did one in France, because I speak French, and one in Ghana.
Summer pre-Junior Year: field hockey camp (5 days), summer math courses to skip a year (3 weeks, intensive), and acting/arts camp (3 weeks).
Summer pre-Senior Year: Yale summer session (Psych & Lit) + Field hockey intensive </p>
<p>My father went to Harvard, my mom went to Yale, and my brother goes to Princeton. My grandfather went to Yale, my grandmother went to Columbia, and my other grandparents both went to Princeton. I want to go to Princeton, but I'd count myself lucky to get into any of the above.</p>
<p>Actually, no. Now I feel even stupider. Wow. This makes me feel much less confident about the tests I’m taking tomorrow. I feel like I’ll miss the space that says
NAME: _______________.</p>
<p>EDIT - I used the edit button! I feel less stupid now! Whoo!</p>
<p>WOW, that sounds really great… i guess your chance are good. you seem to be perfect… maybe too perfect? No, probably not for HYP…
could you chance me?</p>
<p>Chances for an international student without money…</p>
<p>I don’t think I’m really perfect. I just like certain things. There was a while back there when I was struggling in school a bit (freshman year). I had a hard time adjusting to all the new subjects and work, and trying to do everything in addition to my sports. I just joined so many clubs because they’re fun. I love them so much and I have so much fun doing them. I never did anything with the intent of getting to HYP or anyplace else. Now, it seems I’m going to college based on my ECs. Particularly my charity. Every interview I’ve been on has asked me about it, and it makes it all feel so dirty… like I started helping people to get into college. I just do what I like and learned to manage.</p>
<p>Haha, why, but of coarse. How could I ever hope to get into a decent school without a 36 and a 2400? I might as well have just gone to community college… </p>
<p>I’m legit scared though. I have like … no safeties. I applied to all Ivies (- Cornell), Cambridge, Oxford, NYU, Vandy, Duke, Stanford, Georgetown, Barnard, and Vassar. Chance me for those too, if you’d like. I really want Prince - it’s where the princesses go Tell me I’m not the only one who saw A Cinderella Story …</p>
<p>Oh, just a quick add-on: I take Latin, and am studying on my own to take the AP test at the end of the year, and I speak fluent French, so I’m taking the AP test in that, too. I just never took the classes, I can’t take AP French because I’m in Latin, and there’s no AP Latin -.- My mom spent a couple of years in France as a teenager, and she speaks fluently, so she taught me and I took French 5th - 8th grade. I also spent a semester in Paris last year as an “exchange” type program. It was really great, so now I speak the language fluently. I did it in the winter/spring semester, so it didn’t interfere with field hockey :)</p>
<p>hhhhhh:
Just because you’ve obviously never made a single spelling mistake in your life doesn’t mean that no one else has. You can your superiority complex can leave any time now.</p>
<p>Excuse me for not caring about how I type. I spend too much time doing academic work to care about how I spell on a forum. </p>
<p>In any case, I type to quickly to spell everything correctly. I assure you, I can spell in real life. Thank God for all those 1st - 8th grade spelling tests. I now always learn how to spell new words. </p>
<p>I just want to be chanced. Like I said, I don’t really have any ‘safe’ schools. So, I just wanted to make sure I’d get in somewhere. Mostly, I wanted to know about Princeton. My parents tell me not to worry … but, they’re my parents. They also let me believe I could one day marry Prince Harry until I was 12. Not very reliable, those two. They always let me live in my dream world. </p>
<p>I promise, I will make a ton more spelling mistakes on here. I’m not worried about perfecting my grammar and spelling on the internet.</p>
<p>I don’t know. I just applied to the schools I visited (w. exception to Oxford & Cambridge), and I’ve sort of spent my whole life believing I’d go to Princeton. So, I never really thought about the possibility of not getting in until last year. I applied to non-Ivies, but they were good schools and hard to get into anyway. </p>
<p>I don’t know enough about any of the state schools to have wanted to go there, you know? I know everything about Princeton and I love it. I know all vital information about the schools that I applied to, and I visited most of them. I applied to the schools that looked like they’d make me happy. My school sort of expects “very selective schools” to be in our future, so they never really encouraged applying to state schools. They told me NYU was a “Safe” school for me … but, reading these boards, I’ve realized that there’s a very real possibility of not getting into any. I should have applied to EA somewhere. Gah.</p>
Tell me I’m not the only one who saw A Cinderella Story …</p>