I’m currently a junior in a public school in Pennsylvania and George Washington is one of my top choices for college. I would guess I’m on the right track, but reading some other threads on this board made me wonder about my chances. For Freshman and Sophomore year those were the only AP Classes I could take. I’m worried that I haven’t made myself look good enough with challenging math classes. I’m hoping to major in Political Science. Thanks in advance! :^)
GPA:
-Weighted: 4.1
-Unweighted: 4.0
-Top 10% of my class of somewhere in between 500-600 people
Test Scores:
SAT
Reading: 760
Writing: 610
Math: 580
(Possibly could improve with my scores coming out this weekend from the last test)
I plan to take the lit, US History, and World History subject tests.
Course Load:
8th Grade:
Chinese 1
French 1
Freshman Year:
AP US History (4)
Honors Intro to Engineering
Honors English
Honors Biology
CP Algebra 2
French 2
Drama 1
Health
Chorus
Sophomore Year:
AP World History (3)
Honors Chemistry
Honors English
Drama 2
Chorus
CP Statistics
French 3
Junior Year:
AP US Government and Politics
AP English Language
Honors Physics
Honors French 4
CP Pre-Calc
Drama 3
Chorus
Senior Year(scheduled):
AP Microeconomics
AP English Literature
AP Statistics
AP European History
Honors French 5
Senior Acting and Directing(Drama 4)
Chorus
Extra Curricular:
Theater Company:
-4 Years
-Publicity Officer Sophomore Year
-Historian Junior Year
-Awards at state and local levels
-Tech Crew Chief Positions
-Multiple acting parts
Chorus:
-4 Years
-Part of after school auditioned small group select chorus for all 4 years as well
Model UN:
-3 years
-Historian/Publicity Officer Junior Year
Track and Field:
-3 years
Water Polo:
-1 Year
Mock Trial:
-2 years
-Writing for Local Newspaper Teen section
-Over 30 published articles
-Member of executive board
-Participation in Saturday morning radio talk shows about current events
-Probably will be one of two interns with the organization next year
-interns work 10 hours a week, edit the paper, lead meetings, and conduct interviews
-Writing is paid but barely(does this make colleges look at it like just a job?)
-radio shows are not paid and entirely volunteer based
National Honor Society Induction Ceremony next month, I was just accepted into the group today.
Next year I plan on becoming a chorus officer, running for theater company president, and running for a class officer position.
Community Service:
-20 hours with suicide prevention music festival
-Multiple hours helping at middle school musicals
-Next year I plan on helping out with a local political campaign
-This year I was a counselor at my school’s 6th grade camp and plan on being one again next year
-community theater
-involvement in local youth group
I’ve also been working as a lifeguard each summer since freshman year.