Peculiar Qualifications

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Ok, so I'm a junior from suburb (no option for minority scholarship programs)</p>

<p>My academic record is bizarre--all honors freshman year but did poorly, two AP sophomore year plus 3 "A-level" courses (school has from low-->high levels: R, A, H/AP) in which I did not fare much better. This year, with 3 AP courses and 2 A-levels, I have an A-average in everything but AP Latin in which I have a middle B. So my unweighted GPA for the first five semesters of high school is only 3.08, but weighted on a 7.0 scale it's about 5.55.</p>

<p>My SATs, taken only once:
Critical Reading--750
Math--710
Writing--790
(12 on essay)</p>

<p>Also, I have been a section editor on my school's award-winning newspaper since sophomore year and have a solid chance of being editor-in-chief next year. I won first place for opinion writing in the state during my freshman year.</p>

<p>So my extracurriculars are solid (I'm also holding a job), my SAT scores are great, and my cumulative GPA is lousy. But I've shown improvement this year in a big way, and demonstrated that I can absolutely excel in a rigorous courseload...at least, I hope admissions will see it that way.</p>

<p>NYU? Tufts? Johns Hopkins? Swarthmore?</p>

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<p>Quick add-on, founded Sean Connery Fan Club at school which has merged with another club to become very popular</p>

<p>Also, likely for National Merit for PSATs</p>

<p>And, will be taking this year AP tests for Latin, US History, and English Language–predicted scores, 3, 5, 3/4 just going with gut. WIll be taking SAT-IIs</p>

<p>Plus, did volunteer work sophomore year with radical bookstore-collective, but probably wont list it, even though it’s a registered nonprofit thats been around for a few decades…</p>

<p>Play guitar.</p>

<p>Did the Johns Hopkins CTY Summer Program two summers ago, took a course in existentialism. I aim to double-major in Journalism and Philosophy at NYU, ideally–though I’ll probably get LS’d.</p>