I’m applying to the School of Foreign Service EA, hoping to major in International Politics.
Demographics: Bilingual Hispanic male, Puerto Rican/Cuban; competitive public high school with about 130 people in my class; (HS rated top 10 in state, top 100 nationwide).
GPA: 4.58 Weighted, 3.98 Unweighted.
Class Rank: top 8.3%; My school puts the same weight on dual enrollment classes at a local community college and AP classes, though, so there are a few students above me that had a less rigorous workload. (I hope this is addressed in my counselor rec letter, and I’ll probably put this in the “additional info” section).
Course load/AP Scores: AP Human Geo (5); APUSH (5); AP Spanish (5); AP World (5); AP Lang (5); AP Gov (5); AP Macro (4); AP Micro (4); AP Capstone Seminar (3); AP Calculus AB (3).
Currently in: AP Euro, AP Lit, AP Capstone Research, AP Psych, AP Calculus BC
Standardized testing: SAT Superscore: 1420;
690 Math, 730 English;
SAT II: 710 US History, 750 Spanish
GT requires that all scores from existing tests be sent
ECs: Student Body Pres (12th);
Vice-President of my class (9th-11th);
Spanish Honor Society Pres. (10th-12th);
Academic Team officer (10th-12th, it’s basically a statewide trivia contest);
Speech/Debate team co-captain (10th-12th);
County-wide Model Senate winner 2 years in a row (10th-11th);
I’ve played piano since I was 6 so I wrote my activity essay on that;
Volunteered at an elementary school science camp over the summer (11th);
NHS member (9th-12th).
Varsity swim team (probably not mentioning since it was only 9th grade)
Honors: Selected as Boys State Delegate from my state last year, (sadly cancelled due to COVID);
National AP Scholar (11th);
Perfect Score, State U.S. History Assessment (10th);
County-wide Model Senate winner 2 years in a row (10th-11th) (not sure whether to put this in honors or activities).
I also got a perfect score on the state-wide biology assessment, but I’m not sure if I should mention it as it doesn’t pertain to my major, plus it was freshman year.
Rec Letters: AP Capstone Teacher: It brought tears to my mother’s eyes.
AP Calculus teacher: Great as well, but not tear-worthy lol
I just realized these were the classes with my worst AP scores, not sure if that’s good or bad
Essays: I think mine are solid, but I’m still tweaking them a bit in before I choose to send them. I think I struck a good balance between personal/analytical writing in my SFS essay (the topic is about a current global issue and your solution to it).
Sorry that this is so long, I wanted to make sure I didn’t leave anything out lol thanks