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<p>Hi to all,</p>
<p>I'm a junior at a top Illinois public school. I skipped the second and third grades but went back a grade for athletics when I transferred to a public middle school.
My mother's a second-generation Puerto Rican/Spaniard and my father's a complete mutt--Eastern European/Russian/Ashkenazi Jew, etc.
I've got ADHD and one other slightly distracting compulsion that I tend not to discuss in public, but I'll probably write an essay about it.
My freshman year was completely mediocre, with a 3.80/5.00 while in all honors classes. I think that was mostly due to an elongated acclimation period and my immaturity compared to my peers. My sophomore year was improved to a 4.10/5.00. This year, my first semester GPA was 4.80 and thus far in second semester I have a 5.00...let's just see how finals go haha.
Currently, I'm in AP English Lang. and APUSH. Next year, I'll be in AP English Lit., APUSG/Comp Gov't, AP Psych, AP Physics C, and AP Calculus BC.
My EC's are solid: class council member, baseball and swimming (both highly competitive sports, and I have a chance to play div. I baseball), 1st chair saxophone in band all three years, production editor on the school newspaper and editor-in-chief next year, writer for two other news organizations (including the teen newspaper of the Chicago Tribune), member of Tri-M music honors society and Spanish club, as well as participating in Project Lead the Way pre-engineering courses. I've volunteered for Habitat for two years and I have an internship at a major engineering company next year. I also distribute Communion to the sick at a local hospital, attend Saturday and summer courses at Northwestern University, and play in a highly competitive honors band in Chicago.
I just received my ACT scores two weeks ago and my SAT's two days ago: 36 comp on my ACT; 780 M, 800 CR, 800 W on the SAT. Though I achieved a 236 on my PSAT, I don't think my frosh/soph grades will be good enough I haven't taken any SAT subject tests...should I?
Chance me for Northwestern, UNC-Chapel Hill, Boston College, Vanderbilt, MIT, UIllinois, and UCLA?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>