Well let me start telling you about me. I am an orthodox Jewish teenager with a large family. I go to school 6 days a week, sunday-friday from 7:30 AM through 9:15 PM (except Friday’s), and on Thursday’s we go till 10:15 PM. YES, THIS IS NOT A MISPRINT! And you might be thinking what might we be doing for all these hours. We pray, have breakfast, learn Jewish studies, lunch, Jewish studies, and then english(secular-not Judaism related) and then more learning, dinner, then more education. I maintaned a 3.9 gpa in freshman year, a 3.7 gpa in sophmore year due to taking the most advanced classes available and struggling with my porn addiction, which thank God I overcame( by the way do you reccomend writing about this in my college admission essay on the college application). And then right now in my Junior year I am taking the most advanced classes available( I’m taking Calculus!), and so far this year i have a 4.0 gpa. Also, this is the first year we are allowed to take AP’s, and we have to self-study them in our free time, WHICH IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE! So, when i come home at 9:30 i have to stay up finishing schoolwork, and also doing AP’s. I got 81% on PSAT(didnt take SAT yet).I am taking(self-study) AP psychology and AP english language and composition(which i have no idea how to do, please help!). Also, in my freshman summer i went to camp, and helped my mom with her work. Somphmore summer, our school offeres us summer school so i went there.( also planning on going there junior year, and these are the only two years they allow us to take it, I’d take more if they let). I also when i had like winter break, and other breaks in school i helped my Temple raise money(charity). I also spent my summer with our temple in a program where we help young Jewish boys and girls come closer to judiasim. AND our school does not have a counseler so I do not have anyone to really guide me(my parents are too busy) and i am the first child in my family going to college so do you think with all my background info, especially my school hours which restrict me from doing alot of extra-curriculars(also our school doesnt have any groups, and clubs we can be into, the only thing we have is a librarian and i volunteer there for my school), so any tips on what to do, how to do, all the who’s what’s and why’s, just please help me! i am also trying to get into UCLA, i wnat to become a pharmacist. So please help THANKS ALOT! have to get back to studying…</p>
Paragraphs grasshopper. If your school has no clubs start some. Simple as that; ask your principal what you need to do to get started and just do it. Looks good on college apps because it shows you have initiative. Also while your GPA is okay UCLA is starting to get really competitive so try to raise it. Porn adiction? hmmmm… i can’t really say if you should write an essay about that, maybe it would be good or not. your decision. goodluck.</p>
P.S. you should put this on the “chance me thread” instead of the social science ap thread.</p>
First off, breathe :). Second, I’m not sure how porn addiction would fly as an admission essay, but maybe if written well it would work. Third, obviously you have special circumstances so make sure that’s included in your application. Every app has that section for a reason. Just explain your school day and I’m sure UCLA will take it into consideration. About the no counselor thing, you must have a dean of students, principal, someone who has your academic information who can help you in sending out your recommendations and transcript. If not, maybe ask a friend who goes to another school if you can talk to their counselor who can answer your questions. AP Language and Comp isn’t that hard, it’s just a bunch of terms and how to recognize them in the text. Plenty of help books in barnes and noble. About UCLA itself I can’t help you, as I’m not applying there. Sorry :(</p>