please chance me, calm my nerves

<p>Ok, so this is honestly my first post, and i'm only a junior, but i want to know where i need to improve/ right now.
oh, and i'm not using the silly acronyms, i'm not that lazy.</p>

<p>white female
i go to a prep school on scholarship
honor roll since 10th grade
GPA: 3.3 unweighted (low, but due to an unexpected family illness, complicated)</p>

<p>SAT: projected score based off of sophomore psats (bear in mind I hadn't completed the necessary math for that test) M: 520, CR: 570, W: 610
I take the PSATs again in a week or so
I'm taking the real deal this spring, along with the ACT</p>

<p>junior schedule
-AP biology
-English 11 (honors is overfilled, i decided to take regular for the smaller class size)
-Alg/Trig
-Spanish II
-US History
-theater electives</p>

<p>senior schedule (as of now)
-honors physics
-English electives
-AP stats
-honors precalc
-AP microeconomics or History electives
-Spanish III</p>

<p>Academic Honors/Achievements
-Awarded the Barbara Jaffe-Stahl '48 scholarship
-Hudson Valley Community College-Successfully completed Intro to Web Design and Development, received an 'A' in the course, at the age of 15.</p>

<p>for the record, my school doesn't offer honors languages, or honors humanities until 11th grade, i was recommended into them at my old school, but i transferred to the prep school with their generous scholarship.</p>

<p>anyways
extra-curriculars (with projected senior year and pg choices)(i believe this is my strong point)</p>

<p>Athletic
-Varsity Ice Hockey; (Captain) 11, 12 (15 hours per week/12 weeks)
-Club Ice Hockey; (founding player) 9, 10 (10 hours per week/12 weeks)
-Modified Soccer; 9 (10 hours per week/12 weeks)</p>

<p>School Clubs
-Academic
-working on starting a national honors society chapter here.
-Services
-Gay-Straight Alliance; 9, 10, 11, 12; Elected co-head junior year, expect to be head
for senior year. (2 hours per week/school year)
-Schools4Schools; 11, 12; Founder and Head junior year. (2 hours per week/school year)</p>

<p>Fine Arts
-School Plays; 11, 12 (4 hours per week/8 weeks)
-Regional Plays; 10, 11 (12 hours per week/summer)
-TV Holiday Special; (Featured Soloist) 9 (3 hours/1 day)
-Israeli Dance; 9, 10, 11, 12 (2 hours per week/school year)</p>

<p>Religious
-United Synagogue Youth (USY); 9, 10, 11, 12; held various positions on regional general board ranging from web services to social action. (4 hours per week/school year)</p>

<p>Volunteer
-USY on Wheels: Mission Mitzvah: 12 (7 weeks)
-GuluWalk: 11, 12; Team Captain (5 hours/ 1 day)
-Equinox Dinner Volunteer: 11, 12; (5 hours/ 1day)
-Hockey Clinic for Kids: 10, (2 hours per week/9 weeks)
-Israeli Army Soldier: PG (2 years)
-Jewish World Watch Darfur Walk of Anaheim; 10 (3 hours/1 day)</p>

<p>Work Experience
-Extended Daycare Counselor; 10 (5 hours per week/school year)
-Vacation Care Counselor; 10 (40 hour week/school year vacations)
-I plan on finding a new job as soon as I turn 16, the school i worked at no longer hires students.</p>

<p>Essay Topics
-Ice Hockey, the challenges it posed and the rewards it reaped
-Everything I need to know I learned in USY
-"From here, girls can go anywhere" the school motto and how I uphold it.</p>

<p>Recommendations
-College Counselor, she's also my advisor, great relationship with her
-English 11 Teacher, establishing a good relationship with him
-American History teacher, he's a jolly old man, he'd only write good things about me.
-Supplementary Recs: Ice Hockey Coach, Club Advisor, USY advisor, my ex-boss.</p>

<p>Intended Major: Marketing</p>

<p>Colleges
-Cornell (Reach, but family ties)
-Brown (Reach, but family ties)</p>

<p>-Bentley (Match) (ED)
-Ithaca (Match)
-McGill (Match)</p>

<p>-i haven't decided on safeties yet.</p>

<p>I think test scores are a bit low, but I assume you are retaking. Have no clue on family ties issues, might be all you need depending.</p>

<p>Colleges like to see growth. So if you do like do well this year, it can masks your current 3.3. For example if you got straight A's this year and still only managed a 3.5 GPA, it would look better than say someone with a 4.0 dropping to a 3.8.</p>

<p>Still though, Cornell and Brown are still going to be hard as well as Bentley. Ithaca and McGill can be safeties, if you manage to raise your GPA and SAT's.</p>

<p>And don't bother taking the PSAT's. Go straight for the SATs, you'll get more chances to re-do it.</p>