<p>-White, male, Connecticut
-Prospective School: Engineering</p>
<p>Stats:
Top 8% of class. I would be much higher but my Freshman year grades were not very high, but my sophomore and junior grades probably would have me in the top 4-5%.
GPA: 4.22 W (school has a weird system of weighting, doesn't report unweighted) Junior year grades were by far the highest of my high school career. 4.75 weighted GPA second semester junior year
SAT: 720 CR 730 Writing 740 Math
SAT II: 750 Biology, 790 Physics
Course load: All honors freshman, All honors and 1 AP (Biology) Soph, All honors and 3 APs (Physics, US History, Psychology) Junior, All honors and 4 APs (Calc, Chemistry, Spanish, English) Senior.
AP Exams: two 5's (Biology, Physics), one 4 (Psychology)</p>
<p>Essay: Common app essay was very unique, showed a lot of personality and my interests.
Recs: One from my physics teacher, which showed my academic abilities. Other from an english teacher which was much more personal. Counselor rec was excellent as well. </p>
<p>E.C.'s
-Very involved in community service. Officer in Youth Service Action Group which is similar to Key Club.(9-12)
-Big Brother/Big Sister Liaison for Junior and Senior year. Oversaw about 10 big brothers and sisters.(11-12)
-Very involved in my church group. Youth fellowship since freshman year, go on mission trips every year to New Orleans (9-12)
-Camp Counselor. Extremely selective program. First year I was one of 40 kids, it's now down to 8 or so total from that group. (9-12)
-Volunteer at the Connecticut Children's Medical Center reading to patients in the waiting room and keeping them occupied. (9-12)
-Volunteer and board member for town's Safe Rides program, which provides rides home for kids who are too drunk/with a person who is too drunk to drive themselves. Part of a board of 8 or so people. (10-12)
-Volunteered as a counselor at Camp Sunrise, a camp for mentally challenged kids, for two years (10-11)</p>
<p>Awards
-AP Scholar with Honors
-National Honor Society
-Science National Honor Society
-My high schools high honor roll, which requires a GPA of 4.0 or higher, for every quarter of my high school career.</p>
<p>I know my GPA is a little low, but hopefully they will see that I have been steadily improving since a slow start my freshman year.</p>