<p>It's excruciating, to wait for college decisions. Can you chance me for these schools?
:)</p>
<p>Harvard
Stanford
Brown
Penn
Dartmouth</p>
<p>Columbia
Duke
UChicago</p>
<p>Cornell AEM
NYU Stern
Emory
GWU
UMiami</p>
<p>Williams
Middlebury
Bates</p>
<p>UC (UCB, UCLA, UCSB, UCD)
CSU (CalPoly SLO, SDSU, CSULB, CSU Chico)</p>
<p>Academic</p>
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[li]Rank: top 5%[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>[ul]
[li]"Cumulative GPA": 3.906[/li]This is the GPA that LAUSD reports. It's a mix between unweighted and weighted. AP classes are given the "bonus" but honors are not. It starts from 9th grade, and includes the first semester of 12th grade.</p>
<p>My 10th grade was a difficult year so I had a couple of Cs and Bs. We didn't have a place to sleep etc (see essay info below).
On the flip side, I had straight As during my Junior year.
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[li]SAT:[/li]Take 1: 740M, 670CR, 670W (10 essay)
Take 2: 730M, 690CR, 680W (9 essay)
Super-score = 2110
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<p>[ul]
[li]Subject Tests:[/li]French 800
Math IIC 750
Math IC 750
US History 730
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<p>[ul]
AP Tests:
AP Euro: 3
AP US: 4
AP Psych: 5
AP French: 5
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<p>[ul]
[li]Senior year course load:</p>[/li]
<p>1ST SEMESTER--
AP Macroeconomics (A) -- 1 quarter
AP Government (B) -- 1 quarter
AP English Literature (A/A)
AP Calculus BC (B/B)
AP Physics B (A/B)</p>
<p>2ND SEMESTER--
AP Physics
Drawing
Live Concert Production</p>
<p>I am taking the most rigorous course-load in my class. Total APs taken by graduation: 9
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<p>Background info on me
[ul]
[<em>]White caucasian male
[</em>]Income: $17K for 2009; it's usually around $20K
[<em>]First-generation college graduate hopeful. Single mother household. Mom is widow.
[</em>]European and Middle-Eastern background. Fluent in French and dual citizenship.</p>
<p>Permanent address is still in UT since my mom still lives there, but I'm currently/temporarily living back in Los Angeles with Grandma. My permanent address on applications is in UT, while my temporary address is the one in CA.
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[ul]
[li]Descriptions of my high schools:[/li]---9th and 10th grade: commuted to a reputable upscale public high school in Los Angeles.
---11th grade: in Utah, near Salt Lake City.
---12th grade: back in Los Angeles, but at a different High school; it's very urban and predominantly hispanic (9% are caucasian). AP classes are offered but most kids end up at CC or no college at all. In the school there is only one classroom of about 30 for Calculus. We run on a 4x4 block schedule.
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<p>EC Activities and Leadership
[ul]
[<em>]Cross Country (3 years) "MVP", Varsity
[</em>]Track (4 years) 1600m, 800m, long jump; "Most Improved", Varsity
[<em>]French club (3 years) (President, Treasurer) Organized events; in charge of coordinating dates, finances, trips...
[</em>]Service Club (2 years) We raised over $15,000 for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. Also was the "Respect Campaign Organizer", raised awareness for drunk driving, raised funds for leukemia, held raffles, assemblies, invited guest speakers.
[<em>]Debate Team / JSA (2 years) Oratory speeches; head defense attorney for Mock Trial.
[</em>]FBLA club (1 year) 3rd Place in State competitions
[li]Church youth leader (5 years) Organized camping events, movie nights, service opportunities...[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Awards and Honors
[ul]
[<em>]Questbridge Finalist
[</em>]Questbridge CollegePrep Award Recipient
[<em>]Cross Country: "MVP"
[</em>]Track: "Most Improved"
[<em>]3rd place in FBLA State competitions (UT). Team event: "Business Decision Making"
[</em>]High School Academic Letter I; and consistent Honor Roll.
[<em>]AP Scholar with Honor
[</em>]Nominated by high school teacher for "Keys to Success"
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<p>Work Experience
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[<em>]Educated an autistic boy for a family (1 year) I educated a 9 year old autistic child, [</em>]Spencer during all of 10th grade on my own time twice a week. I taught him how to speak correctly, write, think and express himself.
[<em>]Organized neighborhood project. (2 months) During the summer after 11th grade, I scanned over 2000 old 35mm picture slides to CDs for people in my neighborhood.
[</em>]Designed, created, and maintain the e-commerce website located at earthcrossroads.com.
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<p>Essay and subjective matter</p>
<p>I talk a little bit about my first "business" selling wasted chestnuts in France when I was a small kid and relate that to helping the autistic child that I taught to reach his potential.</p>
<p>I mention my experiences tutoring that autistic child during 10th grade. I juxtapose this with how my father helped an autistic child when he was a teenager, but how I didn't know about this until afterwards. I compare the autistic child's obsession with a train set to my obsessions of helping him.</p>
<p>During 10th grade I slept in family friends' houses, and in our car with the family for a couple of times. 11th grade was stable. Then during the beginning of my senior year, we spent 3 weeks with no running water. We sustained ourselves by filling containers with the neighbors' hose water, and used that to shower etc.</p>
<p>I briefly mention that my dad took his life in college before my mom knew she was pregnant with me... and it connects to the other stuff and how I am taking my life forward etc etc... (My essay is extremely optimistic and I don't dwell on negative things at all. It's not a sob story.)</p>
<p>My counselor and my two teachers wrote very good recommendation letters.
I already interviewed with many of these schools, and they went great.</p>
<p>----> I can chance you back if you put a link. Thanks! <----</p>