<p>Hey guys,
Looking for chances at the following schools:
-Tufts
-Swarthmore
-MIT
-Yale
-Amherst
-Williams</p>
<p>Currently a Junior</p>
<p>Freshman GPA: 3.96W (2 out of 3 possible honors)
Sophomore GPA: 4.04W (4 out of 4 possible honors)</p>
<p>Junior Classes:
AP Biology - A
AP Chemistry - A+
AP Calculus AB - A+
AP USH - A
AP Lang - A-
Honors Chinese III - A+ (no AP Chinese here)
These are only Q1 grades, but all of my senior friends say that the beginning of the year is the hardest. These grades equate to a 4.78GPA. I am the first person to ever take 5 academic (non art and not including languages) APs, and the current senior class's valedictorian had a lower GPA last year (not sure by how much).
Hopefully admissions gets that this ^ is the work I am capable of, and that I simply slacked off freshman and sophomore years.</p>
<p>Testing:
SAT I: 2300 (first sitting, plan to take twice more)
ACT: 35 (first sitting, no studying, also planning to take twice more)
Math II - 800 Chemistry - 790 (going to take bio and ush, considering lit)</p>
<p>ECs:
-I'm a full-fledged EMT, and will have upwards of 500 hours of service by application day next year.
-Captain of the school's science team. We have great chances of making it to nationals this year.
-Have written for the school paper, and currently write for the PTO and the town paper
-Involved in self-started/taught/guided science projects (science faculty basically has enough confidence in me to let me take stuff from the storage rooms and do cool stuff; currently synthesizing materials to create a ferrofluid and teach the class about it (search "Homemade Ferrofluid" on YouTube; great videos online))
-Other stuff that doesnt really matter</p>
<p>Other things:
-Taking an anatomy course at a community college second semester
-Made it to final round of state chemistry competition last year, planning on entering the ACS tournament this year
-Was my freshman year bio teacher's aide last year
-Official AP bio teacher's lab setup helper (I go in on the mornings before our class does labs and help her set them up)</p>
<p>Have some nice essay ideas... Recs will be stellar, main ones coming from freshman year science teacher/teacher who runs the science team/really good friend and this year's AP bio teacher, will get others from AP Calc teacher/AP USH teacher incase schools only accept one from science/math and one from english/history</p>
<p>hopefully the strong science and math grades (only A's freshman and sophomore years)/science ECs/EMT/anatomy course will show a focus towards science/medicine</p>
<p>phewph... Thanks guys!</p>
<p>P.S. will chance back</p>