<p>Chance me? and I promise to return the favor</p>
<p>Gender: F
Location: NY
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Public
High School Type: sends many grads to top schools
URM: Hispanic </p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.7/3.8 ish (I had mono this year and missed over a third of the class days... something like 13 weeks. My GPA from freshman and sophomore year was a 3.96)
GPA - Weighted: 4.70
Class Rank: top 10%
Class Size: 600</p>
<p>APs:
AP Lit (I accelerated English and took this as a junior, something not done in my high school. I got A's all year and most likely got a 5)
AP Chem
AP US
I've taken the hardest schedule possible all of high school and have never taken anything but honors courses.</p>
<p>Senior schedule
AP Bio
AP Spanish
AP Human Geo
AP Econ (by correspondence, not offered at my school)
AP Calc AB (i took BC this year)
I am also taking English and Creative Writing at the local Ivy league university (it's not Brown; I wish)</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT I Math: 710
SAT I Critical Reading: 730
SAT I Writing: 800
(definitely definitely retaking)</p>
<p>SAT II Literature: 800
SAT II Chemistry: 800</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Significant Extracurriculars:
-Co-founder and president a women's organization at my school that serves two purposes:
1. Increases awareness about issues regarding women in general: we bring in lecturers; hold free self-defense courses; have a pamphlet stand in our school library; have discussions about movies, books and articles; go see speakers, exhibits, plays, etc.; go present at middle schools in my town about important issues; and the like
2. Raises money for a hospital that provides care to women in the Congo who have experienced sexual violence. I feel really, really strongly about this and plan on doing an independent major that has a heavy focus in the Africana studies department. I also wrote one essay on this but I don't know if it's the one I'm going to submit for the common app.</p>
<p>-Sole founder and editor in chief of my school's literary and arts magazine. I have been doing creative writing on my own since I was tiny and I realized there was no outlet for students to do creative writing at my school... So I just created one! It's legit though, we have a publisher and an entire staff that includes 6 editors and then those working under them.</p>
<p>-I run a mentorship program for middle school girls through the women's community building in my town. This is a well known program that used to be organized solely by adults but after being a mentor for one year I told the leaders that I really wanted to help plan. I ended up instructing all the mentors (like 40-50 girls) and doing a lot of other planning things that used to be adult work. </p>
<p>I'm also the Student Representative to the Board of Education in my town... pretty self-explanatory. I spoke often in meetings and even gave a presentation to the board and town. Some of my suggestions for budget cuts were actually included in the budget.</p>
<p>I'm really involved with the freshman orientation program at my high school (which is a really big thing there); I was in charge of one of the major events and also was in charge of many subcommittees for events throughout the year. </p>
<p>-I am a member of a select committee of students that helps plan a memorial lecture series that's been going on for the last 26 years at my high school. This requires us to call professors and important community members and do a lot of convincing, badgering, nagging, among other annoying but effective behaviors to get them to come say to high schoolers what they would normally say to lecture halls full of notable adults or at least Ivy leaguers.</p>
<p>-Spent the summer after 10th grade working for an NGO that helps those who are HIV positive. This wasn't through some kind of program, I lived in my grandparents' home country with them and volunteered on my own with a group that doesn't normally hire teenagers.</p>
<p>Athletic Status
Ski Racing. Since I was 7, have qualified for states almost every year. 4th at states this year (in a very competitive state with many ski academies)</p>
<p>Varsity Crew (since summer after freshman year) my boat won states this year... I get up at 5 every morning to go row for 2 hours... I love rowing?</p>
<p>Honors and Awards: scholar athlete awards (for skiing)
national merit something
local community service awards
won a county-wide leadership award
Rotary Youth Leadership Award
I'm lacking here a lot</p>
<p>College Summer programs: Brown University summer college, doing a creative writing workshop for four weeks. </p>
<p>Major: I want to do an independent major that combines the human rights aspect of international relations (revolving mostly around Africa/Africana studies) while taking several languages and also creative writing courses. However, if I can't do that I would double major in Creative Writing and International Relations.</p>
<p>Colleges of Interest:</p>
<p>College: Brown University, Choice #: 1, ED/EA: Yes,
I really want to go to Brown. Not because it's an Ivy, but because it has the curriculum structure that fits my learning style best. I am someone who is interested in a million things at once and wants to be able to take classes about Rastafari and Old English Lit at the same time without it hurting my chances of meeting all my conecntration/major requirements. A school like brown has the strengths of a research university with the curriculum of an LAC and it seems like an absolutely perfect match.</p>
<p>Other Schools:
Columbia
UChicago
Northwestern
UC Berkeley
Pomona
Claremont-McKenna
Williams
Bowdoin
Tufts
Reed
NYU
Whitman
UCLA
Cornell
McGill</p>
That plus the fact that you’re hispanic makes all of the colleges that you listed seem like matches to me… you have GREAT ECs (esp on the rowing thing, colleges really recruit for Crew), good test scores, and a fairly solid GPA. Ordinarily I suppose it’s not amazing or the best or anything, but you seem very very well rounded and I’d be very surprised if you dont get into 90% of the places you listed 