<p>I am a freshmen in high school, and I am very worried about high school. Is this resume good enough for ivy league/top 20 school? Thanks.</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 (unweighted), 4.26 (Weighted). Expected GPA after Senior Year (If I keep it up) 4.6-4.8</p>
<p>PSAT (Is this good? Any advice?) 164. 66% of sophomores.</p>
<p>Resume:
Academic Achievements:
-Principal's Award- Highest recognition for written story as chosen by principal for sixth grade students.
-Academic Excellence Award- Highest academic recognition given by principal (based on nominations by a panel of teachers) to seventh grade student (two awards each for male and female students).
-President's Education Award- For maintaining an "A" average throughout middle school.
-National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) member and Vice President (William Mason Chapter)- Became a member by maintaining an "A" average, showing leadership, and demonstrating service. Nominated through an interview by a panel of teachers to be Vice President of the NJHS.
-1st chair Euphonium for the highest middle school band, and high school intermediate band (Middle school band was winner of several awards).
-Superior rating for Solo and ensemble competition 3 years in a row- District competition, highest rating.
-Director's Award- Best musical talent for sixth grade band, as selected by musical director.
-Area Honor Band- Top euphonium player for county school district, as chosen through an audition and recommendation by music instructor.
-State Select Band- Invited to participate in a Virginia state select band to perform in Europe during Summer 2010.
-Mr. Mac Orbeth Physical Education Award- Annual award given by physical education instructor to sixth grader who demonstrates dedication and character through athletics.
-Battle Books Team Captain- In 5th and 6th grade I was selected to a reading competition (through a test) eight consecutive times where I was named captain all eight times (by my classmates). Our sixth grade team won one of the four competitions held that year.</p>
<p>Personal Achievements:
-Nominated to freshmen executive board- part of student government, one of 5 members selected.
-Freshman basketball team - made the team with no previous experience.
-Big Buddies- Participate in program through high school that gives mentally challenged students a friend to have.
-Travel Hockey- A/AA/AAA level hockey since age 7.
-Baseball- Named to Little League All-Stars for three years, All-Star team District runner up for two years, Majors team town champion for one year. Played age 13U and 14U travel baseball for the Vienna Mustangs who were ranked top ten in the nation for 13U age.
-Lacrosse- Learned a new sport at age 14 for a U15 county travel team. Team finished as District runner up.
-Football- Learned a new sport at the age of 13 in the humility of not winning any special titles.
-Swimming- Swam for Country Club team for 4 years with no special individual recognitions, but for a team that won the league championships 3 years in a row.
-Debate Camp- Attended one Summer of debate camp, and was chosen as team captain for the affirmative argument side.
-Community Service- Was a "Big Buddy" for the Friday Friends Forever organization through my Elementary School (program was to develop mentors for mentally and socially challenged students).
-School Vice President- Elected by my elementary school to be Vice President during grade 6.
-School 5th Grade Senator- Elected by my elementary school to be Senator during grade 5.</p>
<p>you are doing good keep the good work, wow freshman in high school and you have done so much good job and do community service (its fun) well depends what you spent your time doing</p>
<p>Just to be clear, college do not give a damn what u have done before freshmen year. When u look at the commons app, when it asks for ur EC, it asks for years of participation and the 8th grade bubble is non existent.</p>
<p>you look like you’re on the right track. but it’ll depend on how you’ll do in high school cuz they don’t look at anything you’ve done in middle school and below</p>
<p>Get off CC. Keep your grades up, cultivate relationships with teachers with whom you click (for example, I help my French teacher tutor kids every other Monday and have asked her to mentor my graduation project), explore a variety of ECs and then really invest yourself in those that interest you (2, 3 max), do not sacrifice a social life for any of these things (keeping in mind that you may very well have to sacrifice a party or two), and do not freak out about (P)SATs now. Your scores will naturally go up over the course of two years. </p>
<p>In two years, get back on here and then we can more accurately assess your chances. Well, as well as any random anonymous Internet figure can. Without concrete stats, we have nothing to gauge your chances on, and getting on here too young, being surrounded by incredibly motivated and accomplished people (some of whom may or may not be fictional) can be soul-crushing when you’re a freshman. Now go!</p>
<p>honestly, it is a bit too early to say but you seem like you may have started on the right track… if you want to get into top privates such as Columbia, Duke, Emory, Brown and the like… you should aim for 2200 on the SAts but you don’t have to worry abt this for another two years.</p>
<p>FYI, you are in your freshmAn year. FreshmEn is plural. </p>
<p>You seem like a hard worker with a lot going for you. Calm down, don’t stress yourself out - keep working hard but keep your perspective and ENJOY high school! You only get to go to H.S. and be a teenager once - don’t spend the whole 4 years looking past it to college. There’s a lot more valuable about h.s. than just being a means to get into college. Many life lessons that you will carry with you forever will NOT come from your classes. </p>
<p>Also, you have a nice resume, but you can throw it out. I have never heard of a college that will consider anything that happened before 9th grade. ESPECIALLY not 5th and 6th grade!</p>
<p>Hahaha. I found this thread to be absolutely hilarious.
Middle school awards… are you serious? (just a preview? no one cares.)
Also I loved how everyone just started pointing out her mistakes. This site has tough critics.
Oh and thanks hahalolk for calling her out. Why would you even say that on someone else’s thread? Rude much?</p>
<p>Sorry, didn’t intend to be mean! Just corrective, for future knowledge… better to be corrected on CC than to have it seen on a college app.</p>
<p>But when you do your college resume, unless you’ve won a national award in something in middle school, your resume should start with 9th grade. :)</p>
<p>When I was a freshman, I was on track to attend the local ASU (and prob. not even the honors college). My rank was barely in the top 30% of my class, and I had a TON of Bs and A-s for 2 whole semesters. </p>
<p>But, I suddenly cared about school, got practically all A’s (a few A-s) and I got into Chicago EA last week even though I’m barely in the top 20% of my class.
Yes. Freshman year doesn’t dictate anything. And, middle school is not a “preview” of your future potential. Good luck!</p>
