<p>Location: Washington State
School: average public school, no one goes anywhere special really. two years ago a girl went to USC and that was a big deal. Few years before that someone got into berkeley and thats pretty much been it lol.</p>
<p>Academics:
GPA: 3.97 (UW)
6 AP's out of 7
all honors possible
toughest schedule possible
rank: top 1-2% </p>
<p>freshman year: straight A's, took two possible honors classes
sophomore year: B/A- in AutoCAD, then all A's in honors classes and others
junior year: all A's (AP USH, AP Language, honors chem, etc)</p>
<p>senior year:
Medical Terminology
AP Calculus (AB)
AP Literature
AP Statistics
Physics (no honors or AP available)
AP Government</p>
<p>Tests:
SAT: 730 CR, 680 Math, 670 Writing: 1410/2080
SATII: 730 US History, 720 Math II, 680 Spanish
*im planning on taking chemistry in december and w/ brush up expecting: 700-740ish
AP Language: 5
AP USH: 4</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Swimming: 4-year varsity, team captain, 3-year districts qual, 1-year state qual....biggest ec with countless hours in both high school and club
Water Polo: 3-year varsity, team captain...6th place at state sophomore and junior year....also huge time commitment (AKA two-a-days every day)
Church: deacon at a coptic orthodox church, youth group leader, plenty of time put into that
Hospital Volunteering: 150 hours or so at local hospital at post anesthesia care unit
Habitat for Humanity: 100 hours at Restore where we sell donated stuff to help build home</p>
<p>Awards:
Masonic Outstanding Student
Molecular Biology Award
Honors Chemistry Award
swimming/polo stuff
nothing really significant...</p>
<p>*i shadowed a nanotechnology grad student at the University of Washington so ill mention that, and ill be doing an internship soon, something my biology teacher will set me up with but it wont be till after i send in my apps (ill probably mention it though)</p>
<p>*how much will my lack of academic extracuriculars hurt me? i feel confident with my passions in athletics/community service, but i feel like the lack of academics is glaring, but i dont feel its worth my time to join some meaningless academic club and i never took the initiative to do anything major either since i was too involved in athletics</p>
<p>Subjective:
hooks?:
1st generation college student
extremely low income- <20,000/yr
immigrant (came to US at age 7, im fluent in portuguese)
ethnicity: my mother is from brazil, my dad is from egypt
(under apps i put hispanic/latino and other)</p>
<p>essay: well its about my ethnicity obviously...and religion...kinda an amazing strory: im coptic orthodox and i tell my story of how my mom told me she was jewish...i never knew until i was 16..so it talks about my whole background and all that jazz...should be pretty solid and probably my hook as a brazilian jew/egyptian coptic...and i was born in london</p>
<p>recs: "top students ive encoutered in my career" is what ive come across so they should be strong</p>
<p>schools: HYP- (not really a big dream at all, but id like to see my chances)
Stanford- heres the dream school...
Duke- other top school (i think diversity will help me big time here?)
WashU
JHU
UCB/UCLA (OOS)
University of Washington (thats my safety)</p>