<p>GPA: freshman and sophomore year- UW 3.8 W 4.1
junior year- UW 4.0 W 4.5 </p>
<p>SAT: 2100 (superscored)
cr- 720
w- 730
m- 650</p>
<p>*SAT II's
Literature- 650
U.S. History- 640
Are these going to hurt my chances a lot? I know they're pretty weak. </p>
<p>Rank: 30/280 (this is probably the weakest part of my app... it's because of kids taking easy classes to boost their rank)</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars:
President and founder of the Young Democrats Club
Vice President of the Diversity Club
Editor of the Literary Magazine
Newspaper Book Review Columnist
varsity tennis team (9,10,11)
volunteer all the time at church
volunteer at the library twice a week (10 hrs. a week approx)
College Misericordia Diversity Camp
I'm also heavily involved in the Obama campaign.
I organized a voter registration drive at my school. </p>
<p>Awards and Achievments: (pretty weak)
AP scholar
2nd place in a poetry slam (sophomore year)
honorable mention in a poetry slam (junior year)
ambassador for change (it went along with the diversity camp thing)
member of the national honor society
High Honor roll (every quarter freshman and sophomore year)
Principal's Honor roll (every quarter junior year)</p>
<p>Summer Activities:
volunteering at the library
I also took 2 college courses at wilkes univeristy:
Pschology (I got a 4.0)
Governments of the World (4.0 as well)</p>
<p>Course load- I took two out of the three AP's that my school offers, pretty much the "hardest" courseload I could... even thought it's not that difficult.
Freshman year:
spanish II
physical science
academic english
advanced algebra II
world history I
phys. ed</p>
<p>Sophomore year:
spanish III
advanced geometry
bio I
academic english II
speech/writing (both half year electives)
world history II</p>
<p>Junior year:
U.S. history
spanish IV
academic english III
AP European history
Algebra III and trig
chemistry</p>
<p>Senior year:
AP Spanish
Physics
Economics
Shakespeare and the Novel (I took on an extra elective)
Pre-Calc (dual enrollment)
Calc I (dual enrollment, next semester)
Composition 101 (dual enrollment)
American Lit (dual enrollment, next semester)</p>
<p>AP grades:
euro- 3
us- 3
gov't and politics- 4
Not so great, but two I self studied for. </p>
<p>Essay: very good. </p>
<p>Rec's will also be very positive, except I'm not sure how good the quality of the writing will be. I'm getting one from on of the college professors I had during my summer courses. He's head of the political science program and I want to major in political science. </p>
<p>here are the schools:
american university
smith college
mount holyoke college
villanova university
bryn mawr college
saint joseph's university (EA)
college of the holy cross
Bates (pretty much my number 1 choice!)
Fordham University (EA)
University of Scranton (EA)</p>
<p>other schools i'm considering that are a bit reachy:
NYU
Boston College
Wellesely</p>