<p>Hello,</p>
<p>My name is Prince, hahaha, and no I am not the singer. But I am new to College Confidential and I feel that it would relieve my nerves if I went on a forum where other people experience the same thing as myself. My question is over the admission into the Burnett Honors College at the University of Central Florida. Some background information, my mother is German and my father is African American and they met each other in Germany and had me in Germany, so I am native born German, but I have Dual Citizenship and a current resident in the state of Florida. Fast forwarding a bit, I am now a Senior in high school and neither of my parents have gone to college and so the whole process and admission is brand new to me. I have, fortunately, already been admitted to the University of Central Florida (Wooohooo!) for their Summer Term and now to take an even bigger leap, I am going to apply for their Honors college. I feel this would be a great opportunity and I just want to be given the chance to prove how much I want it and how it could benefit my future academic success.</p>
<p>Here is some information about my academic/extracurricular life:</p>
<p>Class Rank: 23/210
Unweighted GPA: 3.700
Weighted GPA: 4.400
SAT Reading: 590
SAT Math: 620
SAT Writing: 560</p>
<p>AP Exams Taken:
AP Environmental Science
AP English Language and Composition
AP Psychology
AP United States History</p>
<p>AP Exams Taking(this year):
AP Calculus AB
AP Microeconomics
AP United States Government and Politics
AP Biology
AP English Literature and Composition</p>
<p>Senior Schedule:
AP Calculus AB
French III
AP Microeconomics/AP United States Government and Politics
AP Biology
AP English Literature and Composition
Administrative Office Technician</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities:
Marching Band
-Drum Major (Director position of the band)
Symphonic Band
Jazz Band
National Honor Society
-Member
Senior Men Organization - An organization of Senior men who strive to help their local community and charities
-Member
YMCA Day Summer Camp
-Volunteer Counselor</p>
<p>Community Service Hours Accumulated: 1,000+ (spending my summers of high school to the YMCA Summer Camp, it meant a lot to me)</p>
<p>As you can see I do quite a few things outside of school and take a relatively high course load but I just do not feel confident that I will get it. If someone has any ideas on my chances, I would love to hear them. I plan to take the SAT once again and to take the ACT soon to hopefully have improved scores. I know I seem very average as a student but this year is my year of redemption, I improved my SAT composite score by 70 points and I plan to do it again to qualify for the highest medallion for the Bright Futures Scholarship. I have gotten straight A's so far this semester and I plan to get it again for the rest of the year and hopefully do well on my AP exams. The ones I have taken so far I have passed with 3's and I know that seems lame but I plan to improve greatly this year. I just hope it is enough. If anyone has any comments about the information that I have now, that would be great to please reply. I am keeping faith though for my score. I come from a place where I was never offered much but I continue to try my hardest, and if it is something I want, I strive to get it, my scores and grades would have been better if I known how the college system worked sooner but I didn't and so I am hoping that I can make it all work out this time. Please even if you think I won't make it in, please have a bit of prayer for it and some faith. Some reassuring words would be nice, but be honest as well, I can accept not getting in as I am a realistic person. I just want some opinions and take it from there seeing as the college only really gave me a midrange for things.</p>