Just want your opinions before submitting my applications...

<p>Final List
1. George Mason // INSTATE
2. James Madison // INSTATE
3. Virginia Tech // INSTATE
4. Northeastern
5. U. Washington
6. Lehigh
7. U. Maryland
8.William and Mary //INSTATE + ALUMNI RECOMMENDATIONS (WORK) + COUSIN ALUMNUS</p>

<p>May or may not apply here...
9. U. Virginia // INSTATE (Easier to get in UVA or W&M?)
10. U. Southern California //LEGACY (DREAM SCHOOL)</p>

<p>SAT: 1285 (690 Math, 670 Writing, 570 Verbal)
VA (NORTHERN) RESIDENT
RECOMMENDATIONS (Smithsonian + Work)</p>

<p>ACTIVITY SUMMARY
• Offices held and activities and organizations in which you have participated (athletics, debate, academic decathlon, community service, cultural and religious organizations, etc.):
ACS
o Model United Nations
o Community Service Technical Support Staff Project
o Community Service Construction Project
Habitat for Humanity, American Embassy La Paz
Centreville Regional Library
Volunteer Fairfax
BITS Instructional Tutoring
Smithsonian Institute
Captain of Junior Varsity Basketball Team
SYA Centreville All-Stars Soccer
• Honors and awards received (list title), including National Merit Semi-Finalist, National Achievement, Westinghouse, Girls/Boys State, Alpha Gamma Sigma, etc.:
Magna Cum Laude throughout junior year.
Reflections Contest Award
• Work experience:
CDS Web Services, Inc
Janmedia Interactive
• Summer programs, conferences or special events attended, travel experience:
Summer college course in English at George Mason University
Lived overseas in Korea and Bolivia; traveled throughout South America including Peru and Argentina.
• Other special experiences or background, or unusual hobbies:
- Had a microsurgery on my right index finger and another surgery on my left.
- Skateboarding, even though I popped my left elbow joint open and got six stitches.
- Have eaten cow heart, also called anticuchos.
- Have talked to and met many interesting people during conferences while working for Janmedia including a 45 year old who wanted to create website and online children’s gaming site like Neopets, and two music producers, one of whom produced Cisco and Jennifer Lopez’s albums.</p>

<p>GPA? I will get back to you on those essays ASAP :)</p>

<p>3.0
Low, which is why I'm trying to write an outstanding essay!
I really want to get in USC, Lehigh, or William and Mary...</p>