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<p>LOLLLL. Sorry guys. I had to get your attention somehow. I actually have no idea how to get in.
Buuuut.
CHANCE ME PLEASE?
I'm applying SCEA.</p>

<p>Indian (the dot kind, not the feather kind) female from TX
Competitive public school compared to other schools in the area. Uh that really doesn't say much about my school. I'm in the first graduating class so I can't really tell you how other graduates from my school fared.</p>

<p>Stats:
UW GPA: 4.0/4.0
W GPA: 6.8/7.0
Rank 15/931 (top 1.6%. Ha)</p>

<p>Senior Year Classes:
AP Comp Sci A
AP Calc BC
AP Chem
Symphonic Band
AP Government/Economics
AP English Lit
AP Environmental Science</p>

<p>Past APs:
World History-5
Biology-5
APUSH-5
English Language-5
Spanish Language-4</p>

<p>ACT:
Composite: 34 (Retake?)</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning: (I'm done with this one. I'm not pariticularly fond of College Board)
CR: 730
Math: 750
Writing: 720
Total: 2200</p>

<p>Sat Subject Tests
Biology: 770
U.S. History: 790
Math Level 2: 760</p>

<p>Awards (order of importance):
-National Merit Commended
-AP Scholar with Distinction
-Girl Scout Gold Award (Pretty prestigious. Equivalent to Eagle Scout)
-President's Volunteer Service Gold Award
-Area All-State Band (Difficult to get that far)
-All-Region Band
-All-District Band 1st chair
-Freshmen Region Band
-2nd place in state in Science Olympiad Health Science event
-1st place in regionals in Science Olympiad Health Science event
-3rd place in district in Science Olympiad Disease Detectives event
-1st place in invitationals in Science Olympiad Health Science event
-UIL Solo and Ensemble: Division I all four years.
-National Honor Society
-Spanish National Honor Society
-Various school-wide awards that aren't really worth mentioning to schools like Stanford.</p>

<p>ECs/Leadership (Order of importance):
-BAND takes over my life. This is the EC that I've been the most committed to. (President in 12th grade. Section leader from 10th-12th)
-Science Olympiad (President from 10th-12th grade)
-Girl Scout for nine years. Received my Gold Award which is the highest honor a scout can get.
-Spanish National Honor Society (President in 10th grade)</p>

<p>Work experience/Summer stuff:
-Kumon (Math and Reading Mentor, Classroom Assistant). I didn't work for a very long time here. My schedule was just too crazy.
-Welch Summer Scholar Program: Conducted a research project under the direction of a college professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. The project revolved around organic peptide synthesis and its usage in treating cancerous cells and Diabetes Mellitus.
-Texas Honors Leadership Program: (previously called Texas Governor's Program) for three weeks in summer of 2007; attended seminars, made presentations covering community service and group dynamics.</p>

<p>Subjectives:
All recs should be really good. I'm getting an additional one from my troop leader who's known me for too too long.
Essays/short answers are pretty decent. Not like mindblowing. This might be a problem. I'm not the most articulate writer.</p>

<p>Any questions?
And if you've made it this far, I congratulate you.</p>

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<p>Don't retake the ACT.</p>

<p>You'll certainly be competitive.</p>

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<p>That's definitely not the answer I was expecting.
Thank you!
BUMP.</p>

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<p>I agree with docketgold, 34 is fine.</p>

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<p>looks comprehensive and a very competitive profile. just like everyone else though lol. its just the nature of the beast. SAT scores seem to be just about the Stanford average and I agree that the ACt is fine. GPA cant be any better and ur involved heavily in music and in science so theyll like that passion u show. Gluck, ill be competing with u and the other thousands of superqualified candidates. i have a thread up could u please respond to mine as well? thanks</p>

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<p>Yep. I'll do that.
Anyone else?</p>

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<p>what 5 awards and 7 ECs are u gonna post on the common app?</p>

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<p>The Common App website isn't working right now. Hm.
Let's see if I can remember correctly.</p>

<p>Awards
-National Merit Commended
-AP Scholar with Distinction
-Gold Award
-Science Olympiad Awards
-Band awards</p>

<p>ECs
-Band
-Science Olympiad
-Girl Scouts
-NHS
-SNHS
-Welch
-Some community service stuff</p>

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<p>"Indian (the dot kind, not the feather kind)" ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok that was classic</p>

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<p>HA. Thanks. I thought so myself.</p>

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<p>BUMP.
Anyone have any idea on how to make certain things stand out in my app?
Any help at all?
ANYTHING??
I'm sending it in tonight for sure.</p>

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<p>do u go to the woodlands?</p>

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<p>^^^^"the dot kind, not the feather kind"</p>

<p>if you have ever seen the blue collar comedy tour, they also refer to it as "slurpee indian, not casino indian."</p>

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<p>No I don't go to the Woodlands. I live in the Cypress area.
And woowski, that's pretty hilarious.</p>

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<p>I agree with pose716. You'll definitely be competitive. It's going to come down to your essays/letters.</p>

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<p>Uh oh. I'm pretty confident about my recs, but I'm not sure if my essays are that spectacular.</p>

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<p>You know you can add the other awards in the additional information section, that is what I did.</p>

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<p>wow, looks good.</p>

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<p>You're good but not outstanding.</p>

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<p>I know someone who got a 2400 on his SAT, and a 35 on the Act...hmm...I am pretty sure he got 800's on all his SATII's as well. He had a lot of extracurriculars and he won a national competition in academic decathlon. However, he got rejected when he applied to Stanford (he got into caltech though). The point is you never know if you are going to get into stanford or not...</p>