<p>I am a high school junior. I have a 4.3 on a 4.0 scale. I have won awards for my academics and a few of my literary works have been selected to appear in my school’s literary magazine. I am vice president of our school’s Diversity Club, corresponding secretary of History Club, and a member of Art Club (I will join NHS next year also). I participate in artistic roller skating, and practice about three hours everyday; with this I have won seven national and regional metals. For community service, I work as an assistant for my former chemistry teacher Wednesday’s after school, I volunteer at the Michigan Humane Society every weekend, I teach a roller skating for beginners class, and when I turn sixteen I will start volunteering and job shadowing at the hospital near my house. Also, this summer I am doing a medical program at Michigan Tech, next summer I will probably do a study abroad or something like that.
I know I will have great recs, and I am taking the ACT for the first time in September.
PLEASE PLEASE chance me</p>
<p>If you can answer why an artistic roller skater wants to go to Barnard, your chances would seem to be excellent. I suppose there are worse places to roller skate than Grant's Tomb, but I don't know.</p>
<p>I would suggest that you find a focus for your application. My initial impression is that you are a bit scattered in many different areas and I do not get a sense of what you are "about". Medical interests? Skating? Writing? Not that you have to be limited...you just need to chose a focus. You have some time to think about this. </p>
<p>Certainly your grades and such are good and Barnard tends to look beyond mere numbers (given that admission is, as you know, quite competitive). But the ad com at Barnard will want to know what makes you YOU and why that person would be a great fit for the Barnard community. For example, winning medals for roller skating in and of itself may not seem a "fit" for Barnard; however, the discipline and dedication needed to acheive to that level are significant. </p>
<p>Best to you!</p>