<p>Hey everyone!</p>
<p>I am an Indian female in my senior year. I’m in a CBSE school (the most popular national board in the country, considered one of the most rigorous).</p>
<p>GRADES:</p>
<p>• Freshman year – 10.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average (10 point scale)
A1 grade in all subjects
First Rank in my batch of around 200 students.</p>
<p>• Sophomore year – Scored 98.2% in the Std X ‘Board Exams’ (Countrywide school leaving public exam conducted by CBSE)
10.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average ( A1 in all subjects)
First Rank in the city (tied with 2 other students)</p>
<p>English : 98
Social Science: 99
Maths: 95
Science: 99
Sanskrit: 100</p>
<p>I changed schools after sophomore year, as is the norm in India. Joined the Arts stream (the choice is between Arts, Commerce and Science streams) in another CBSE school. </p>
<p>Subjects – English, Math, Sociology, Political Science, Economics</p>
<p>• Junior year – 91.8%
First Rank in my batch of around 130 students (including Science and Commerce students)</p>
<p>• Senior year – Consistently receiving As till now. Expecting well above 90% in my mid-terms as well as Std XII Board Exams (school leaving exam).</p>
<p>SAT – 2300 (CR 800, W 790, M 710)</p>
<p>SAT II – Taking Eng Lit and Math IIC this October. Expecting 700s in both.</p>
<p>TOEFL – Taking it this Oct</p>
<p>EXTRACURRICULARS</p>
<p>1.Leadership:</p>
<p>Freshman : School Assistant Overall Incharge
Sophomore : School Overall Incharge
Junior : Elected Junior School Captain
Senior : Elected Senior School Captain </p>
<p>(All the above were the highest possible posts available in the School Council for students of that grade level)</p>
<p>2. Sports : Was on the school swimming team in 9th and 10th grade
Won 1 gold and 2 silvers at the district level, 1 bronze at the zonal level, and participated at state level both years.</p>
<p>3. Debate : </p>
<p>• Won the first prize in the Group Discussion event at International Youth Festival of History and Civics
• 2 first prizes in state level debates (adjudged Best Debater)
• 3 first prizes in local level debates</p>
<p>4. Other extracurricular achievements</p>
<p>• 2 local level first prizes in inter-school Science Talk contests
• 1 local level first prizes in interschool English Speech contest
• 1 first prize in intra-school extempore speech contest
• 1 first prize in district level Spell Bee
• 1 first prize in state level English Play contest – Wrote the play and played the lead role
• Participated in state level Science Talk</p>
<p>5. Work Experience (150 hours) : Did a summer internship at the local Times of India office. Wrote newspieces and was credited in the byline.</p>
<p>**6. Community service:<a href="Started%20a%20short%20while%20ago,%20should%20log%20in%20about%20%5Bb%5D60%20hours%5B/b%5D%20by%20the%20time%20applications%20are%20due">/b</a>
• Volunteering as a teacher with an NGO that teaches homeless children who live on railway platforms.
• Volunteering at a centre run by an NGO for women subjected to domestic violence and other family-related social problems. </p>
<p>ACADEMIC HONOURS RECEIVED</p>
<p>• 18th Rank in State in the International Olympiad of English Language</p>
<p>• School awards :</p>
<p>a) C. Subramaniam Award for Excellence in Character<a href="2010-2011">/b</a>
b) Shri A. S. Sharma Memorial Award for **All Round Excellence in Academics<a href="2010-2011">/b</a>
c) Smt. Umadevi Rathod Memorial Award for Excellence in **Academics. (2010-2011)
d) Won 3 school awards for Excellence in Mathematics
3 for Excellence in Science, and
2 for Excellence in English.</p>
<p>Though I’m still a bit unsure, I plan to major in Eng Literature and minor in one of the social sciences (Political Science/Sociology/Economics).</p>
But other than that, you’re incredibly impressive and stand a good chance.</p>
And I know, I’ll be totally honest, I did start doing that just for college apps. I’m from a relatively small town, and we really don’t have a culture here of students doing community service in high school… the workload in high school is pretty large and doesn’t leave much time, plus there aren’t too many opportunities either. But I AM honestly passionate about social work (that’s one of the main reasons I’m into the social sciences) and want to get deeply involved in it in the future. Do you think my community service stats may affect my chances adversely? I really want to apply, Princeton is the one reach college on my list that I really really would love to get into. Would it be worth it to try?</p>