<p>Hello and thanks for checking out this thread!</p>
<p>I am from a tiny town of 7,700 people in good ol' Wisconsin. I have not cured cancer or built homes for orphans in Africa or anything along those lines, but this is me.</p>
<p>White Male
Income: 70-90; but a lot of medical bills
GPA: 4.26
Rank: 3/131
ACT: 34E, 31M (different test), 33R, 32S</p>
<p>AP's:
-APUSH: 5
-AP World: 5
-AP Chem: 4 (damn)</p>
<p>EC's:
-Basketball: four years; varsity letter; 20 hours/week, 18 weeks/year
-Tennis: three years; varsity letter; 15 hours/week, 9 weeks/year (not nice enough weather in Wisconsin!)
-Lifeguard: teaching swimming lessons/lifeguarding; two summers; 35 hours/week, 8 weeks/year
-Aquatic Invasive Species Instructor; two summers; 12 hours/week, 15 weeks/year
-AAU basketball; two summers; ~20 hours/week, 12 weeks/ year</p>
<p>Honors/Awards:
-Bausch and Lomb Science Award
-NHS (should I even list it?)
-Multiple Academic Bowl awards--7 team/individual first, 2 second (again, should I even list these?)
-varsity letters--most likely finishing with either 4 or 5
-Badger Boys State (does this go under awards?)</p>
<p>Essay will be about my sister's attempted suicide and its effect on me.</p>
<p>Senior Schedule:
-AP Spanish
-AP Calc AB
-Communications 111
-College Writing
-Anthropology 110
-Philosophy 120
-Philosophy 321
-History 130 </p>
<p>Prospective major: (hopefully) either history or possibly philosophy, or even possibly English. I'm indecisive. </p>
<p>Schools:
-Yale (gigantic reach, I know)
-UW Madison
-Macalester
-Carleton
-Beloit
-I need other schools to apply to!</p>
<p>Thanks for reading this, I apologize that it's so long, and thank you for chancing me!</p>