<p>Greetings.
I already posted one of these in the summer, but I have updates since then. </p>
<p>Race: Asian (International student)
Gender: F
Location: upstate New York
School: public, used to be in top 1000 but dropped by a lot in recent years
Family income: around $30,000 yearly (need financial assistance, but there could be complications since my parents own a house that's pretty valuable)
Not first gen. </p>
<p>SAT I:
1st time - 800 (CR), 670 (M), 800 (W); 2270 total
2nd time - 800 (CR), 690 (M), 800 (W); 2290 total
3rd time - 760 (CR), 770 (M), 690 (W); 2220 total
SAT IIs:
Literature - 760, 780
US History - 770
Math II - 700
ACT: 32 (composite)</p>
<p>unweighted GPA: 4.0 (95)
weighted GPA: 4.5
Rank: 4/481 (top 1%)</p>
<p>APs:
World History - 5
US History - 5
Participation in Government (currently taking)
Literature and Composition (ditto)
Spanish (ditto)
AB Calculus (ditto)
Biology (ditto)</p>
<p>I've taken maybe one less AP course than the maximum amount possible, and my school schedule has been totally full since 10th grade.</p>
<p>College courses:
Pre-calculus - A (Siena College)
Intermediate Spanish 102 - A (SUNY Albany)
Intermediate Spanish 103 - pending (SUNY Albany)
Latin 102 or 103 - pending (SUNY Albany)</p>
<p>Awards:
Honor Roll, High Honor Roll
Won gold medal twice in National Latin Exam
Won bronze medal in National Spanish Exam</p>
<p>Extra-Curriculars:
National Honor Society (11, 12)
Student Government (10, 11)
Amnesty International (11, 12)
Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Society (12) - token straight kid
Latin Club (10, 11, 12) - Keeper of the Sacred Chicken. Yes, that's an elected position...
New Global Citizens (11, 12) - no official position, but I've been in this club since the beginning and have contributed A LOT to it. Helped raise over $2000 for street kids in Belgrade, Serbia.
Youth Court (11, 12) - served as prosecutor, defender, jury foreperson, judge, and juror in real-life cases.
Peer Tutoring (12) - I tutor after school in Latin, Spanish, and Biology</p>
<p>The reason why I don't have a lot of extra-curriculars for 9th and 10th grade is because I skipped two grades and only started noticing the negative side-effects after entering high school. I got mopey and distracted and didn't sleep a lot because I wasted all my time "thinking" and websurfing instead of doing homework.
Plus everyone always thinks I'm a freshman. -_-</p>
<p>Essays: good. Maybe not stellar, but good.
Recs: Should be informative, flattering, and interesting to read. From my 11th grade English and Spanish teachers, plus the Latin teacher.</p>
<p>Career goals (as stated in my college apps): history, anthropology, linguistics, translation, creative writing, teaching.</p>
<p>Schools I've applied/I'm applying to:
UC Berkely
University of Vermont
UPenn
Cornell
Yale
Princeton
Williams
Amherst
Rice
Middlebury
UToronto</p>
<p>Please chance?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
Target.