<p>Junior year of High School completed (Male Student, white)- Planning to Major in Political Science. California Resident</p>
<p>Overall unweighted HS GPA: 3.36 Upward trend from a 2.8 freshman year. Class rank is a horrible 38 of 68.</p>
<p>Senior classes: (With grades, but those grades are not included in the 3.36 average unfortuately)</p>
<p>Jazz Band - A
English 4 - A
Chemistry - A
Physics - A
Christian Living/Bible- A
Trig/Precalc - B
PE - A
Academic Decathlon - A</p>
<p>For the schools with application dates after dec 13, these grades will count and put me at around a 3.44 GPA average and a top half class rank. But it won't count for the UC schools and Cal Poly. </p>
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<p>SAT Reasoning Scores: Critical Reading- 690 Math- 650 Writing- 640
Overall- 1980</p>
<p>SAT Subject tests: Literature- 670 Math II- 540 (I'm retaking this, I was off by one question number on over half the test and thought I fixed it but I guess not) US history- 560 (Same deal, also retaking)</p>
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<p>ECs:</p>
<p>Jazz Band 9th grade, 12th grade (first chair tenor saxophone.</p>
<p>Varsity Golf- Junior year, Senior year</p>
<p>Varsity Soccer- Sophomore year</p>
<p>National Honor Society Member</p>
<p>CSF member senior year</p>
<p>Journalism/Publications for two years, and continuing senior year and throughout college. High school online newspaper won the NSPA national Pacemaker award for high school newspapers while I was a staff writer. Pacemaker finalist my junior year. Featured on the High School Journalism "National Edition" junior year for a published article (meaning I have an article published on a national medium, and many published pieces of writing on my high school's online and print edition newspapers). One of my articles recieved Honorable Mention at the NSPA competition.</p>
<p>Opinions Editor of above mentioned award-winning high school newspaper</p>
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<p>Refs:</p>
<p>Excellent refs from English teacher and councilor stating that "my GPA in no way reflects by academic ability." </p>
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<p>Essay: Very good essay</p>
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<p>Please chance me for NYU, Boston Uni, UC Irvine,UCLA, UC Berkley, Northeastern, Cal Poly San Luis.</p>
<p>If you have any other suggestions for schools in California, Boston, or NYC (Manhattan), please suggest. </p>
<p>I already have my State University safety schools in order. NYU is my first choice.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>