<p>I am a Hispanic junior from northern New Mexico, where I go to a fairly competitive school and I am in the top 10% of my class with my class rank being 7th/140. I maintain an UW GPA of 3.8, and a weighted GPA of 4.4. I am technically speaking a first generation student, in terms of my biological family, who are a bunch of drug addicts. However, if one considers my adoptive family my father went to UPenn. I WILL be applying early decision to UPenn next year.</p>
<p>My current class schedule; Culinary Arts (Dual Credit), AP Calc AB, AP US History, AP Biology, English III (H), Psychology (H), Spanish III (H), Speech and Debate II (H).</p>
<p>My class schedule for my senior year will be: AP Calculus BC, AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Physics, AP Chem, Spanish IV Honors, Pro-Start 2 (3rd year of Culinary class), Speech III Honors.</p>
<p>I have not taken either the SAT or the ACT. My PSAT scores were mid 70's across the board.</p>
<p>In the extra curricular department I am the President of our schools Gay Straight Alliance, which I founded as well. I help connect our GSA with local gay friendly businesses and other organizations, so I am the student representative to our local PFLAG (Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) chapter. I am the captain of the Speech team. I am captain of one of the competitive Culinary Arts teams at our school. I will be co-captain of the chess team, who took 3rd at Nationals last year. I am in National Honors Society. I have been in all these clubs since I was a freshmen, except for National Honors Society which I joined as a sophomore.</p>
<p>In the community/volunteer department, I have gone to and spoken at several anti-drug, anti-violence, and other types of marches. I volunteer at the animal shelter in the summer and have amassed about 150 hours of volunteer service. I have volunteered at the local soup kitchen as well for the past couple of years, especially during the holidays. I have helped to restore the clubhouse out by the golf course near where I live as well. Lastly I have been going to elementary school classrooms and teaching kids chess since the 9th grade.</p>