<p>I hopefully want to major in nursing .. ive had a lot of background in this field by volunteering at the ER in my local hospital .. any ideas of what schools i can get into .. i was looking at Udel, drexel, SeattleU ... prolly would only get into Seattle from those three .. any advice would be greatly appreciated !!</p>
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<li>male</li>
<li>white</li>
<li>PA resident</li>
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<p>GPA : 3.0 unweighted
SAT : cr - 530, m - 640, w - 540
(i will be taking the ACT in sept. because SATs were not for me at all)
Class Rank : 30/225 (top 15%)</p>
<p>the order of our classes go CP, Honors, AP being the top .. no IB</p>
<p>9th grade:
english 9 CP
algebra 2 H
global studies CP
spanish CP
biology CP
cumulative GPA: 3.2</p>
<p>10th grade:
english 10 CP
geometry H
US history CP
spanish H
chemistry H
cumulative GPA: 2.9</p>
<p>during my 10th grade year, i went through a hard time, hopefully which i am going to explain in my essays to college. my mother went through have a major surgery on her pancreas, and at the same time my father had an undiagnosed illness that lasted over a year .. the doctors thought it was a herniated disk, to a tumor on the brain, but in the end they found out it was MS .. during this time, we had lost everything, my dad not working we lost health insurance for a year, parents in and out of a divorce, still now parents have no insurance and my sister and I have CHIP ... so i didn't do so well in sophomore year ..</p>
<p>11th grade:
english 10 H
pre-calc H
physics CP
anatomy and physiology H
AP gov. and politics
Cumulative GPA: 3.0</p>
<p>12th grade:
AP calc AB
AP biology
English 12 H
AP statistics
Allied Health (counts as 2 sciences H)</p>
<p>Extra-Curriculars:
SADD (students against destructive decisions) 3 years - Vice pres. 10,11,12
TATU (teens against tobacco use) 3 years
Student Government 3 years - Treasurer 11
Student Council 4 years - Homeroom Representative
Rotary Youth Leadership Conference 2008
National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine 2008
Move Ahead Tutoring (elementary kids) 4 years
Jumpstart Youth Mentoring (at-risk children) 1 year
Hospital Volunteer (100+ hours) 2 years
National MS walker/volunteer (50 hours) 1 year
Relay for Life walker/committee 4 years - Captain 2 years
Boys Tennis 4 years - 1 letter
Boys Soccer 2 years
Volunteer Youth Soccer Coach 2 years
Marching Band 1 year
Church Youth Group 4 years
Chester County Futures (college bound students with great financial need) 4 years (scholarship program)</p>
<p>That is about everything I think, Im doing all of this off memory cuz my transcript isnt finished yet... I want to major in nursing because of what happened with my dad .. its what gave me the drive .. i know i have to work on the ACT extremely hard and ive been putting in at LEAST an hour every night ... please be honest and give any advice you can .. also any schools that you think i would match for ... Thanks</p>