<p>Your thoughts after reading through my ramblings will greatly assuage my neuroses (what if I don't get in anywhere ---> a slippery slope of imaginative synaptic firings similar to those DirectTv Don't ... commercials.)</p>
<p>I appreciate it.</p>
<p>Chancees:
["Thee"] Colorado College
Carleton
Columbia
Reed
U Chicago
McGill
Oberlin
Rice</p>
<p>Number stuff:
GPA: unweighted 4.0, weighted 4.6
Rank: 1/350
ACT: 32, 33 superscored, will probably retake
AP tests:
5 AP US
5 AP Chem
5 AP Lang
4 AP Lit
4 AP World</p>
<p>Senior Courses/Rigor Assurance:
Took English over the summer through University
AP GP
Calculus II (AP Calc not being offered, Dual Enrollment instead)
AP Physics C
AP Bio
Honors French 4 (no AP French, Dual Enrollment)</p>
<p>Took most rigorous available, skipped ahead 1 yr in English + Math...</p>
<p>Awards, What Awards?:
Scholastic Art/Writing regional awards (one of each, gold, silver key, honorable ment.)
AP Scholar (of some distinction, maybe not, forget the number thresholds; also don't know how much of an "honor" this really is...)
Best Advocate at Mock Trial regionals
Top Scorer on Quiz Team in the season x2</p>
<p>Extracurrics:
Academic Worldquest (10, 11, 12)
The regional variant of It's Academic (11, 12) 2nd outta 88
Academic Quiz Team (9, 10, 11, 12), regional finalists, 1st place tourney 1st place season various times, JV Captain (10) and hopefully Varsity captain (12)
School Newspaper (10)
Mock Trial (9, 10, 11, 12)
Marching Band (9, 10)
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (11, 12)
Published in school's lit mag special feature (11)
Member of NHS (11, 12)
Creative Writing Group (10, 11, 12)
Do local readings/events for poetry, writings (10, 11, 12)</p>
<p>Volunteer:
VA (11)
LGAR home (11)
Library (12)
Special Olympics (10)
Helping to run Middle School Science Bowl (10, 11, 12)</p>
<p>Extracurricular sales-pitching to middle school kids (11)</p>
<p>Demograph:
White, female, 80k income, semi-rural public school, mid-Atlantic (Alas, no Dakota)
US-Canada dual citizen</p>
<p>Teacher, Guidance Recs:
Hopefully fantastic... but objection, speculation</p>
<p>Thanks much in advance</p>