<p>I'm currently a hispanic high school Junior in Atlanta, but am very interested in attending Tufts. I know it's still fairly early, but I'm think of double majoring in Political Science(or IR) and philosophy. Here are some objective stats: </p>
<p>School
weighted gpa: 3.9
unweighted 3.69 (low I know, but for freshman year I attended a pre-IB program which heavily weighted difficult classes before transferring to parochial school for financial reasons)
AP classes classes: 8 total, AP World, (5 on exam) APUSH, AP Comp Gov (senior level I'm currently enrolled in as a junior), AP English Comp, AP English Lit (Sr), AP Psych (Sr), AP Euro(Sr), AP Macro Econ (Sr)
Honors Classes: English, Chemistry, and Spanish 3 as a sophomore
Honors: Principal's list (weighted cumulative gpa of 95% or greater) 2 semesters, 1 semester of Honor Roll (weighted cumulative 90% or greater)</p>
<p>Scores
ACT: 28 (first time without extended time to which I'm entitled, retaking in April)
SAT I: not yet taken but with 203 on PSAT probably Hispanic Merit Scholar
SAT II: World History 800, Literature and Chemistry (later this summer) </p>
<p>E.C.'s and scholastic involvement
Newspaper Staff writer, Captain of Model U.N./ Model Arab League team (I have participated in MUN since freshman year, and have attended international conferences and won a delegate award) Co-Captain Debate Team and letterman (since sophmore year, finalist at a local tournament and broken in 5 others), Academic Honor Council (student body which is nominated to judge honor code violations), tutor at a local elementary school in English, volunteer at another local school library, was a lead in training at my summer camp in 2008, member of my school's human rights club, and have been published in my school's award winning literary magazine </p>
<p>Extra: I am Mexican American, an excellent student in the humanities and english, and am dyslexic. I'm a fairly good writer and have overcome my learning disability to achieve a fair amount of scholastic success. My great grandfather also received his M.D. from Tufts as a second generation immigrant from Ireland (I know it's a tenuous connection to the school, but still worth mentioniong) </p>
<p>I'm sorry if I have written alot, but if anyone can give me feedback on my stats thusfar I would very greatly appreciate it, as well as being more than amenable to providing feedback on other "chance" threads.</p>