<p>I've been reading through these forums for months now, smiling, laughing, even giggling every once in a while. All the while thinking "wow, it must majorly suck having to apply to colleges." Well, my time has come, and, yes, it does suck. </p>
<p>Sorry to post a "chances" directly into the Swarthmore forum, but I really wanna get the skinny directly from people at the college, and people who have just recently got in. So, I ask you to, for my sake, bare with this thread pollution. </p>
<p>Here it is:
Standardized tests:
SATi: 2280
SATii's
Bio: 760
Mathii: 740
US: 640
I plan on taking the Lit satii in the fall, so that I don't have to submit that US score.</p>
<p>In New York, everyone is required to take these silly tests called Regents. I've scored a perfect score on almost all of them, and 95+'s on the rest. </p>
<p>Grades:
I go to a very competitive (rich) public High School on Long Island.
u/w: 3.1 w: 3.2</p>
<p>APs (taken four so far, taking four more next year)
English Language: 5
Biology: 5
European history: 4
US history: 3</p>
<p>Like most other people, I have quite a few extra curriculars, but I'll spare you having to read them by posting just a few of my personal favorites.
Drama: I've been in a total of 4 plays (1 was a musical) in my High School career, a lead in all of them.
STAC: Student Television Arts Company. A program started about 30 years ago that is unique to my school. It's an audition-only multidisciplinary arts class that has taken up a great amount of my time and passion. Got in for Writing.
Was on the ping-pong team for two years. Never managed to win anything, but I had a helluva great time.
Code. I have a few websites, all coded by me in CSS. I've "dabbled" (if even that) a little in C.</p>
<p>Volunteering. (~500 hours total)
This is where I've devoted an incredible amount of my passion the last year. This is what I feel should be one of the most important things when applying to colleges and jobs, if for no other reason than to make this crazy mixed up country a little less crazy and mixed up.
Missionaries of Charity, Kolkotta, India (summer '07): 1 month
Habitat for Humanity, New Orleans (summer '06): 3 weeks
Interned at the regional Peace Corps recruiting office: 2 weeks</p>
<p>If all goes according to plan, my essay will be the brightest part on my mucky, dusty little resume (me hopes to be an english major!)</p>
<p>Oh, and I can yoyo really well, and I can solve a Rubik's cube in 37 seconds (current best time).</p>
<p>Also, I'm male and Indian (sadly, not the Native American kind).</p>
<p>Hm. That ended up being a little longer than I was hoping it would be. Sorry 'bout that.</p>
<p>Thanks and be as brutal as you would.</p>