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<p>White Female from Michigan
12/521 (I believe.) Somewhat competitive school.
Both parents went to college but never graduated.</p>

<p>GPA
Fresh-Junior UW- 3.89 W-4.03 (Sick 2nd semester of fresh yr... grades suffered, 3 b's)
Soph-Junior UW-3.96 W- 4.17</p>

<p>ACT- 33
Haven't taken SAT yet but my PSAT scores were really ihigh although I can't remember exact scores though.</p>

<p>AP Classes (including next year's)
Calc AB
Calc BC
European History
World History
English (Lit and Comp)
Chemistry</p>

<p>AP Tests: All of the above plus Psychology (5), Biology (5), Government (5), Statistics, and Spanish.</p>

<p>Recs: Teachers: Great. All of my teachers love me.
Counselor: Don't know because it'll be a new counselor next year. Which is good because mine hated me for some reason.</p>

<p>ECs (weak)
Debate Club (10th-12th)
Model UN (11-12). Many trips to Model UN at U Mich.
National Honor Society (11-12)
Basketball (9. Injury, could only do city sports after.)
City Sports (Basketball, softball, volleyball, swimming)- 11 years.
Volunteer Coaching- 5 years. 3 teams a year for inner city kids. 3 hours at least a day. g
Well over 300 hours of community service (Not something I kept track of =[)
Basketball Referee- 2 years. 6 Hours every weekend.
Volunteer Umpire- 3 summers.
Part-time Job.
2 summers at CTD program at Northwestern.
Piano 6 years. Self-taught but never did any concerts or anything. Just entertained children at my community center at an after-school program.
One strange fact: Technically I am an plumbing apprentice. I could get my journeyman's before I go to college. Hey, women plumbers get paid at lot of money. =] Haha.</p>

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<p>obviously your sats are the only thing missing. you have done a lot of ecs especially basketball coaching/refing etc. and you should talk about that in your essays. I am assuming you are a sophomore right now? or a junior? when do you plan on taking bc is my main question</p>

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<p>I am a Junior and the only thing missing is my SAT because we haven't taken them yet. I am taking BC my senior year.</p>

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<p>You have a high GPA and have done very well on the tests you have taken so far. You will likely do well on the SATs. And your EC's aren't that weak. You need to present them in your application in a compelling way. For example, what jumps out at me from a quick read of your stuff is that volunteering is your main passion. You have vounteered in sports as coach/referee/umpire and by playing piano to kids after school. So perhaps you can write an essay about working with younger kids as a passion. And I find the fact that you are a plumber's apprentice a very intriguing thing. Writing about this might make a great essay. It certainly would stick out in an adcom's mind because it would likely be unique.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>Lol thank you. Yeah, my father wanted me to be a boy so I could take over his small plumbing business. Instead, he just got a very tomboyish girl.</p>