-Junior
-Wanting to go to Vanderbilt through NROTC
Strengths:
-GPA 3.95 unweighted 4.2 weighted
-GPA going up at the end of this year
-Top 10% of class
-School is one of the most prestigious in TN
-Squad leader in band
-Strong trombone player with many achievements
-Gone to all state, top of my high school section, gone to Indianapolis and have made finals 3 times (top 12 marching bands in America), gone to Carnegie hall, st Patrick’s day parade, and next year I am going to the rose parade in Pasadena.
-Safety manager/builder in robotics
-Beta club (volunteer work)
-Very active in a youth group
-Lacrosse
-Black belt in martial arts: learned a lot of leadership from the class. The guy was an Army veteran who ran the class almost like the military. The 6 years I spent getting my black belt taught me many lessons in life/leadership. There was a lot of hard work put into getting my black belt.
-Took a leadership class this year that really influenced me as a person. Here’s a basic lay out: Monday’s-tutored a kid, Tuesday’s-Speaker shared their philosophy on leadership Wednesday’s- volunteered Thursday’s-studied leadership for our own philosophy Friday’s-Worked on student led projects
At the end we had to write a paper on our philosophy, and we also had to give a Ted Talk to the class/school admin about leadership.
Weaknesses:
ACT- I got a 27 this previous July. I am confident it will go up because I am in tutoring, I have had trig/pre cal, and I do English/reading practice in my English class. While I am sure my ACT will go up, I don’t know if I can get to the 33+ range.
AP classes- this year I am in AP biology. Next year I am taking AP physics 1, AP Calc, and AP English 12. That adds up to 4 AP classes at graduation. The majority of my transcript is “honors” and “pre ap” classes.