<p>So I'm a rising senior from North Carolina, I'm looking at some pretty competitive colleges and I want to know if I'm being realistic or if this is all a pipe dream. So, without further adieu, my stats:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.98 (unweighted, last time I checked, it could be just slightly above 4 now that junior year is over)</p>
<p>Class Rank: N/A, school doesn't rank, but if I had to guess, I'd put myself in the top 10 to 15 in a class of 110</p>
<p>ACT Composite: 34
Breakdown
English: 33
Reading: 32
Math: 35
Science: 36
Essay: 11</p>
<p>SAT II:
US History: 760
Math I: 690 (I'm probably going to retake)
Lit: 700 (also probably going to retake)</p>
<p>Rigor: I took 3 AP classes this year, Economics (Macro and Micro), APUSH and AP Lit (Composition).
AP Test Scores
Macro- 5
Micro- 5
AP Lit- 5
APUSH- 5</p>
<p>School has a pretty strict rule about taking more than three AP's junior year so I compensated by taking Honors Pre Calc and Honors Physics as well as a 4th year, non AP Spanish class</p>
<p>My Senior Year Schedule:
AP Lit
AP Euro
AP Gov
AP Spanish
AP Stats</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars
National Forensics League: 4 year Speech and Debate team member, National Forensics League All- American, 1st Place in International Extemporaneous Speaking (everything else is also in extemp, I just don't want to write that out again) at the University of Florida Blue Key tournament, 1st Place Myers Park tournament, 5th Place Wake Forest tournament , 38th place (out of 224) at the NFL national tournament, 24th place (out of 215) at the CFL Grand National Tournament <These are my biggest accomplishments in debate, but I have a number of other tournament wins and placings.
Boy Scouts of America: Eagle Scout, Philmont in the summer of 2010
Music: I've played saxophone for the past 7 years, no big honors though
Beta Club- Member 2009-2011
Amnesty International- Executive Board Member 2010-2011
COEXIST- Member 2009-2010
Varsity Wrestling- Starter at 103, 112, 119, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010
Varsity Cross Country- 2008-2009</p>
<p>Leadership:
National Honor Society: President
First Books (child literacy group) high school advisory board: Founder and Chairman (goal to raise $2000 dollars in 2011)
Students Against Destructive Decisions: Co-President 2011-2012 Executive Board Member 2010-2011 (Planning a mock crash in May 2012)
Catholic Affinity Group: Founder and Co President (2009-2010, 2010-2011)
Student Council: Class Representative all four years of high school
Speech and Debate: Leadership position</p>
<p>Work Experience:
Page for the North Carolina State Senate- Summer of 2010
Interning at UBS Americas in Coral Gables, Florida- Summer of 2011
(During this time period, I am living alone for about a month, I'm not sure if I should include that, could that help me at all?)
Working for Ivy Insiders, test prep company- Summer of 2011</p>
<p>Random info:
I'll have a pretty good essay, I'm a very good writer. I saw in another post someone asking about whether or not market activity (stock trading etc.) should be included, market activity is a geniune interest of mine, I currently have a few shares of a company and I'm looking to buy more when I finish up my internship, so I'm curious if I should include that?
I don't really have any hooks, I'm Catholic, but I don't think that will help, I'm also from North Carolina, so that gives me a mild amount of state diversity, but nothing huge</p>
<p>I'm looking to major (or double major) in one (or two) of three areas right now; journalism, political science and international relations</p>
<p>My College List:
Princeton
Columbia
Georgetown SFS
UNC Chapel Hill
Dartmouth
Tufts
William and Mary
Duke
George Washington
Davidson
UChicago</p>
<p>This isn't my full app, I may have forgotten some things, but this is the bulk of it.</p>