<p>Rising junior here at a prestigious private school in CT- frequently sends kids to ivies (top third of the class generally goes to a top 20 school).</p>
<p>GPA: 89.75%- i'm aware it's not great... freshman year i was transferring from another school, and found a lot of challenges and stuff (frosh: 87, soph: 93)- high honors at my school both semesters this year and second semester last year; head of school list (contribute most to classroom in terms of participation and diligence) both semesters this year</p>
<p>Rank: top 10 out of class of 75</p>
<p>Scores: i went into the psat cold not having studied at all, and didn't do very well BUT for sat's i'm looking at probably something like: 720/720/720-ish.</p>
<p>APs: next year (junior year) i'm taking AP Environmental Science and AP US History, but nothing so far.</p>
<p>Intended Major: Business, Economics, or Pre-Law</p>
<p>ECs:
- Volunteer camp counseling over the summer between frosh-soph year (worked w/ an autistic boy)
- 2011 Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards- five gold keys for poetry
- Runner-up for 2011 Elizabeth Bishop Prize in Verse sponsored by the Blue Pencil- attending their inaugural ceremony to read work; they are publishing my poem
- Editor of high school literary magazine next year (earliest you can do it is junior year)
- Running a literary magazine on my own for charity (helps charity that alleviates child labor in third world countries)- The</a> Adroit Journal
- Bass/Baritone and Arranger in award-winning all-male high school a cappella group
- Model UN
- Peform songs and whatnot at large variety of school events and school productions (very involved)
- Two improv groups (one a selection of the best from the other)
- Photography in Dickinson College's Foreign Language magazine
- Writing/Photography in over 100 independently-owned writing publications (online and in print)- some are very selective
- Stanford EPGY this summer, Summer@Brown next summer
- Attended Middlebury's 2011 New England Young Writer's Conference as a sophomore (meant for juniors)
- Starting a club next year designed to help Free the Children (basically supplying alternative, sustainable incomes to women in third world countries so that they do not have to take their kids out of school)</p>
<p>Caucasian/male (can you say rejected??)... my essays and recs (from teachers and people very involved with some of the listed schools) will be extremely good... and I interview well; dunno if that will really help me though. i do not need financial aid, also.</p>
<p>ED: Brown (probably)</p>
<p>Others (i'm not actually going to apply to all of these places, this is my list before i've eliminated basically any schools):
American University
Babson College
Boston College
Carnegie Mellon
Case Western
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
Georgetown
Kenyon
Northwestern
New York University
Oberlin
Princeton
Rice
Stanford
Tufts
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UCLA
UChicago
UPenn
USC (Southern Cali)
Wake Forest
Wash U in St. Louis</p>
<p>I realize that I am not the ~most qualified~ on this site, but I am trying very hard to improve my chances at these schools as time goes on because I know that my bad freshman year will hurt me. I hope I don't seem cocky! Thanks in advance, guys. :)</p>
<p>oh also, i forgot to mention: i have connections with a member of the board of northwestern, a creative writing professor at tufts, and two people veryveryvery involved with brown's financial committee- will this help?</p>
and the SAT I’s are just ballpark estimates… a 2160 would be ideal haha.</p>
but thanks for the luck!</p>