<p>(I know this is a bump from another thread)</p>
<p>I'm planning to major in French, music, or public health or anything related (premed)</p>
<p>Middle class suburban white Jewish South African male, junior applying from Science and Engineering STEM inner city magnet school (Hartford)</p>
<p>ACADEMICS
SAT: 1940 (superscore)
Math: 590
Writing: 680 (Essay: 11)
Reading: 670
SAT II Math II: No idea, Just took it today.
SAT II Math I: No idea, just took it today.
SAT II Biology M: Ditto, but I know I beasted it. High 700 definitely.
GPA: 4.1 Weighted, no idea unweighted
Rank: Top 5 out of a little less than 60
AP Biology: 4</p>
<p>AWARDS/RECOGNITION</p>
<p>2006 French National Exam 5th place score CT, 7th place score Nationally
Brain Bee 2nd Place
2008 CAPT Scholar Award
High Honors</p>
<p>EXTRACURRICULAR
Farmington Recreational Basketball League (1 Year)
Track Long Distance (1 year)
Math Team Team A (3 years)
2001-present String Bass, Electric Bass since 2006
2004-present Bass Player- A Touch of Klez West Hartford Intergenerational Klezmer Band Organized performance at retirement/convalescent home
4 years teacher's assistant at Sunday School part-time job, next year full teacher part-time.
Founder/President Podcast Club- 4 years
Community Division Hartt School of Music Composition Class
Vice President of Junior Class
National Honor Society (2 years, Senior year forthcoming), am also running for NHS President on NHS Advisor's recommendation (so I think I have a shot)
Nominated Programming Vice President of NFTY Northeast Regional Board
Accepted to the AIM program at the Coast Guard Academy</p>
<p>COMMUNITY SERVICE
I worked for bunch of places... came out to be over 400 hours thus far. Ranging from lab volunteer work to juggling for hospital patients to National Honor Society</p>
<p>Advanced Classes</p>
<p>While I am still a junior in high school, I have taken college classes through both the Early College Experience through the University of Connecticut and through actual classes at the University of Hartford, with more planned for this coming year:</p>
<p>University of Connecticut:
(AP/ECE) Biology C+
(AP/ECE) Language and Literature A or A-
American Studies A
Calculus I B+
Calculus II A so far</p>
<p>University of Hartford-
Intermediate French 200 A
World Religions A</p>
<p>Senior Schedule</p>
<p>University of Hartford Classes:</p>
<p>Linear Algebra with Matrices (needs Calculus I as prerequisite) Fall
Creative Writing (Fall)
French Language/Literature 300 (Fall)
Calculus-based Physics I (Fall)</p>
<p>Differential Equations (Spring)
Principles of Chemistry I (Spring)
French 301 (Spring)
French Cinema (Spring)
Arabic I, if possible to schedule</p>
<p>My GPA has increased every year so far, and next year I will be taking many classes at the University of Hartford (most of my classes). All of my other classes (Chemistry, etc.) have been honors (my school is only honors and above), and I have had a solid B+/A- or higher in all of them, except that AP Bio (that was killer :P) I am also planning on taking the ACTs in June to make up for my SATs and then in the Fall ACTs/SAT II's if necessary. </p>
<p>I'm applying Vanderbilt (top top choice). My other reaches are Middlebury, Emory, McGill, Northwestern, Cornell (1 generation legacy). My matches/safeties are Tulane and UConn.</p>