<p>Info:
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian
Location: northern NJ
Rank: 1/325
Grades: 4.0 unweighted, 4.836 weighted (2nd highest ever in my school?)
SAT II's: 790/790/790, chem, math IIC, bio
SAT I: 800 Math/740 Writing/660 Reading=2200
SAT I: taking October 6th
ACT: 35</p>
<p>Senior classes: I've taken almost all the AP classes that my school offers that fit into my schedule. 1 soph year (Bio- 5), 5 Junior year (Spanish- did not take AP, Chem- 5, AP Calc AB- 5, AP English language- 4, AP US- 5)</p>
<p>EC: </p>
<p>Pathways for Exceptional Children (I've been in this for like 6 years): a local organization that helps kids with special needs and their families. We have spoken at state-wide conferences, changed our community, and are working on a social change project to spread our small-ish organization throughout NJ and hopefully even further. I'm a lead mentor, which means in charge of all the mentors throughout NJ and was president last year (and officer positions this year will be decided soon). I have also put in approximately 50-60 hours of community service per year through this.</p>
<p>Forensics Speech/Debate (9th-12th): 2nd in JV Lincoln Douglas @ states, attended CFL nationals in extemporaneous speaking. Treasurer 11th, president 12th. lots of local wins at tournaments. Degree of Superior Distinction (highest on my team) with 885 pts. (as of 6/07; it will be much higher later this year). Academic All-American award. </p>
<p>Student Activities Council/class council (10th-12th): class treasurer (10th), SAC VP (11th), SAC president (12th). SAC president does morning announcements, plans our school's traditional activities, and represents the school at two board of education meetings a month.</p>
<p>Orchestra (9th-12th): Violin (9th; I sucked), Contrabass (10th-12th). Advanced orchestra in 10th. played contrabass in school musical. currently taking an independent study to learn even more. but i've played piano for 12 years, so it's more learning techniques than theory.</p>
<p>FBLA (9th-12th): treasurer (11th+12th). various state awards. A lot of time put in to do treasurer stuff. just spent 2 hours putting checks into our account and my eyes are incredibly sore. </p>
<p>Science club (9th-12th): Science league (9th-12th)- top 10% in the state in Earth Science. Participated in bio II, chem, etc. Science olympiad- various awards at regionals/states.</p>
<p>international concerns club (10th-12th): sending letters to countries to beg them to show amnesty to people. no leadership, i've just been in it for a few years.</p>
<p>Peers as Listeners (11th-12th): an organization that spends a couple hours a week for seniors only that helps freshmen adjust to the school. Various workshops, etc. a lot of trips, a lot of leadership stuff learned.</p>
<p>Awards:
academic all-american (forensics)
an essay contest
Nat'l merit semifinalist (so far...)
AP Scholar w/ distinction
principal's UPenn book award</p>
<p>Summers:</p>
<p>'06: program in molecular biology at Columbia for 3 weeks</p>
<p>'07: worked two jobs, 15 hour days ftw. camp counselor, busboy at a local restaurant.</p>
<p>Applied/applying to:
Yale SCEA
Harvard
Princeton
Columbia
Brown
UPenn
Johns Hopkins
Tufts
Northwestern
Duke
Washington U (St. Louis)
Rochester U
Rutgers</p>
<p>do I have any chances? looking at other forums scares me greatly.</p>
<p>and for your information, i had enough time to type this all out b/c i'm in school in a class and i finished all the work i had to do. just thought i should clarify that.</p>