I’m currently a junior but I really really want to go to Newhouse for journalism but I don’t know if I have a great chance of getting in 
-3.5 gpa at a very rigorous high school (my GPA so far this year is like a 3.7 so hopefully it will go up)
-lots of honors classes and planning on taking 3 AP’s next year
-published a book freshman year, working on another novel now
-attended Journalism conference in DC which I was invited to (now I’m a member of their Youth Advisory Board and hopefully will become a paid intern next year)
-co-founder, submissions editor and northeast manager of online Newspaper called the Glass Box News
-writing for the school newspaper (currently running for chief editor of the paper but if not I’ll get some sort of position)
-tutor at an afterschool program in boston, helping kids with homework and creative writing (also on editorial board of their creative writing projects)
-president of multicultural club
-led book drive to get books for a bilingual spanish-english school
-president of spanish club
-“Above and Beyond” in Spanish award last year
-published in multiple literary magazines
-national honor society
-spanish national honor society
-chosen to represent my school at an overnight leadership conference at Bentley
-varsity field hockey and varsity track since freshman year
-works at a burger place and an after school program
-I’m hispanic and I’ve heard this helps a bit but I don’t think it’s that significant? haha
Also I’m waiting to get my psat results back but I’ve done a practice SAT and got a 650 on lit and 600 on math but I’m getting a tutor so hopefully my stats will go up
please let me know any advice or information you have about newhouse- I really appreciate it!!!