<p>State: CT
School Type: fairly competitive public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Hooks: legacies of varying importance at Yale, Amherst, Smith, Swat, Brown. no major donors.</p>
<p>SAT I - best in one sitting: 2330 (760 M 770 CR 800 WR), superscore 2360 (only difference is 800 CR)
SAT IIs - 740 Lit, 800 USH
APs - 5s on Lit, French, APUSH, Bio all in junior year
GPA -3.89ish UW
Class Rank: probably top 5%, school doesn't rank
Senior courseload - AP psych, AP lang, AP art history, honors choir, honors french, AP calc, APES</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
-recreational martial arts since grade 8
- audition-only choir since grade 5, though i quit that this year and joined the school honors choir instead
- recreational piano since age 5
- National Art Honor Society, historian last year, currently vice president (we actually do things, like putting on shows and hosting "Chalkfest" and helping out at art benefits)
- Co-president of Freethinkers club (philosophy, culture, politics, basically a discussion club for any and everything)
- class council treasurer
- Leo Club (a community service club) secretary
- Environmental Club publicity secretary
-I write for several sections of the school newspaper
- 100 hours of community service, mostly from Leo Club and Environmental Club
-debate team: qualified for states</p>
<p>Awards:
-Grand Concours 9th in state, 10th in country (grade 10), 4th in state 5th in country (grade 11)
-NMSF
-CAPT scholar (not that it matters)
-AP Scholar with Honor (not that it matters)
-National French Honor Society (I count this as an award as we don't do anything)</p>
<p>Summer programs:
-performing/ fine arts camp going into 9th and 10th
-Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy going into 11th (a French immersion program)
-RISD precollege program this summer</p>
<p>Interests: art, literature, world languages (especially French but looking to start another in college!), women and gender studies, history, lots of stuff
Recommendations should be pretty good from my APUSH and AP Lit teachers. Counselor rec should be decent. Essays should be quite good, hopefully.
Not asking for financial aid.</p>
<p>The List (this is pretty final. applied to 11/12; still working on Brown):
Yale
Brown
Amherst
Swarthmore
Middlebury
Wellesley
Vassar
Barnard
Smith
Bard
Mount Holyoke
Simmons</p>