<p>Senior, caucasian female from a public school in NY (sends 1-5 people to ivies, though it varies every year. last year there were 3, the year before there were five, and this year there was 1)
Middle class from the suburbs.</p>
<p>SAT: 1900 without studying. I'm retaking this in October but chance me at this score and a 2100 (I've been practice testing above this so I'm confident I'll get a score around here)
SAT II: Lit 700 (retaking, I didn't study for it) US 680 (retaking, I was pretty upset about this one when I got a 5 on the AP exam)
GPA: 3.9 unweighted, 4.0 weighted
AP Exams: AP English Language (5), AP Euro (4), AP US (5). I'm taking three more this year (Psych (independent study), Gov & Lit).
I'm in the top 5% (I'm not positive of my rank yet.)</p>
<p>ECs:
NHS for 2 years
Mock Trial for 4 years, lead witness (we went to the finals twice in the last three years, won first place once)
Youth and Government for 3 years (I was selected for Nationals & attended, I've won a lot of awards from this program.) I'm an executive officer.
Conference on National Affairs delegate (this is a youth government program run by the YMCA, delegates are selected from their state and it is very difficult to be selected in NY)
Quiz Bowl for 2 years
Foreign Language Honor Society for 2 years
FBLA (I've competed and placed and I plan on competing again next year)
I've written for the newspaper and lit mag and I'll hopefully be editing both next year.</p>
<p>Volunteer work:
I haven't done enough so far, but next year I plan to mentor at least twice a month. I've participated in the Junior Achievement program and won their essay contest, I plan to do this again next year.</p>
<p>Strengths: I'm strong in English, particularly writing. My essays will definitely stand out, I'm pretty creative. My recs will also be great, one teacher I've known through ECs and the classroom (I may even have him as a teacher for gov again this year) and the other was my AP english teacher who can describe my personality/talents better than anyone.</p>
<p>I plan on studying communications or double majoring in gender studies and psychology. I'll be attending grad school for journalism, I'd like to be an executive, creative director or editor at a magazine. The following is the list of schools I'm closely considering. </p>
<p>NYU
Northeastern
BU
Fordham
Emerson
Mount Holyoke
Eugene Lang
Wellesley
Barnard
Tufts</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>