<p>white amle, central florida
4.2 weighted gpa (3.85ish un)
top 7% class
sat 2120 (reading- 730, writing- 740, math 650),
sat2: USHist- 800 math2c and spanish were very very bad but i am going to submit lit when it ake it instead</p>
<p>2002 National Geographic Bee state champ, nat qualifier
freshman social studies award, also junior social studies award
most speaker point by a novice for debate- also some other small awards
outstanding delegate at UCF KNIGHTMUN (model UN) conf.
who's who blah blah...</p>
<p>-founder and prez of model un for 4yrs
-debate for 3yrs
-national hon soc, spanish nat hon soc, eng nat hon soc (i'll will be the -chairman of peer tutoring)
-was in Teengage republicans and volunteered for bush- but ive had a change of heart and im now a democrat (how to address that on the application?)
-numerous leadership postions in my Boy Scot Troop
-Eagle Scout
-Order of the arrow scouyting honer society (ceremonies team)
-junoir class council
jv and varsity tennis- (9, 10,)</p>
<p>part time job at YMCA in the child develptment area- working with kids ages 6 months to 11years old, about 15 hours per week</p>
<p>I am dying to go to PENN and will probably apply early (Ben Franklin is my hero- no joke) but if i can't go there- is it worth applying to other tough schools like Tufts, Duke, UVA, UNC Chapel Hill, or GT?
ALso- what are your opinions of Emory, George Washington or anywhere else for some one intereste4d in polisci, history or int. relations? What schools get kids into DC internships for congress or the white house etc...?</p>
<p>any constructive critiisizm or advice please! don't be a snob-- lol</p>
<p>Does don't be a snob mean you don't want an honest answer? I'll pass and just encourage you to consult scattergrams and averages.</p>
<p><em>this is not from himself--this is from a friend signed in under him--I know it's weird</em></p>
<p>Daniel, my advice is this: stop wasting your time stressing yourself out over whether or not you are going to get into college. You will get in. And you will like wherever you go. I've been there. I've dealt with the stress of applications (not a stress at all ameliorated by the fact I procrastinate until, quite literally, the last minute). ND was my safety school until it became my first choice, and then it could no longer be my safety, right? Don't worry. You will end up where God wants you, where you can grow the most, and it will all work out alright in the end. And if it doesn't work out alright in the end, well, you have no choice but to move on. My strategy for dealing with pain is to think of all the people whose pain I can't begin to fathom, whether I'm running or working or whatever, and to push myself harder so that I can understand maybe a bit of their pain and I can live in greater solidarity with them. And if that's made me a little masochistic, well then, I'll just take the bumbs and bruises. But think of it the same way. It's a great strategy for coping with life. When you don't get where you want to go, just think of all the people who are trapped without opportunity because of family obligations or the fact that their government ignores them or they were just born simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Think of all that pain. And then think about how good you have it that the worst of your dillemas is where you are going to spend an outrageous sum of money for an education that you really didn't have to fight too many battles to get. Hey, I'm in the same boat. But if you simplify your life just a little, and forget about all of these comments from people who really aren't qualified and don't know any more than you, you'll be happier, and you can spend more time doing things that really, truly make you happy. Becuase either you get in, or you don't, and after all that is said and done, you've lost 100 or so hours of good quality time to spend between friends, family or books, the first two of which you will be absent from once you actually go to college, and in my case and others in our group who are leaving with me in August, just a seven weeks, and the last which you will see too much of once you get there. But that time, otherwise is frittered away and lost. Will you be here for Thanksgiving?</p>
<p>Love, amanda.</p>
<p>Your friend Amanda is wise beyond her years...</p>
<p>aye yes but im still going crazy
and she did too this time last year. I WANT IT TO BE OVER!!!</p>