<p>Stats:</p>
<p>18% out of 1140 students at a competitive high school in texas.</p>
<p>Weighted GPA: 4.1-4.2-ish
Unweighted: 3.0-3.6 (no clue how to calculate this)</p>
<p>SAT: 1320 (700v 620m)
SAT IIs: Not sure yet...</p>
<p>ACT: Taking on saturday, hoping for a 32+</p>
<p>AP Classes taken:</p>
<p>AP European History: 5
AP U.S. History: 5
AP Human Geography: 5
AP World History: 4
AP English Lang/Comp: 4
AP Music Theory: 3
AP Government: (Taking this yr)
AP Economics: (Taking this yr)
AP English Lit/Comp: (Taking this yr)
AP Psychology: (Taking this yr)
AP Statistics: (Taking this yr)</p>
<p>E.C.s:</p>
<p>---Music---</p>
<p>-Guitar:</p>
<ul>
<li>Placed 1st in my heat in the Guitar Center sponsored "Guitarmageddon" and placed 2nd in the north houston area. </li>
</ul>
<p>-Received a scholarship to attend a 5 wk summer program at the Berklee College of Music - Placed in all level 4 classes (4 is the highest) and received predominantly "As"</p>
<ul>
<li>Will be sending in an excellent demo.</li>
</ul>
<p>-Violin:</p>
<p>-Concertmaster in 9th grade
-Played in full orchestra in 11th grade</p>
<p>---Hockey---</p>
<p>-Played on the AA Jr. Aeros - led the team in assists one year, travelled all over north america, drove 2+ hrs round trip 5 nights a week to practice.
-Been on the Varsity roller hockey team for my high school since 10th grade, our team won the city championship twice.</p>
<p>---M.U.N.---</p>
<p>-Nominated to be the co-ambassador for France.</p>
<p>---Amnesty---</p>
<p>-Coordinator of the "governmental affairs" section of our school's amnesty group - participated and wrote letters for all sorts of issues (Darfur crisis to the death penalty)</p>
<p>---Literary Criticism Team---</p>
<p>-Asked by my AP english teacher to be 1 of 3 on the school's state-ranked literary criticism team. </p>
<p>---Council of International Affairs/Houston World Affairs Council---</p>
<p>-Internships at Vasmark and Utilipoint, 2 public relations firms in houston - served as a "research analyst."</p>
<p>-I'm applying ED II to Vassar and 2 alums and former admissions officers wrote me a letter of application.
-My other 2 letters of recommendation will be from my AP english teacher (the one who asked me to join the literary criticism team), and my AP European History teacher who is a georgetown admissions officer and former CIA.
-My counselor rec will be excellent
-During my junior year, I severely broke my leg in a hockey game and was required to wear a halo with 13 external pins for 4 months. Because of this, I missed 3 weeks of school (on block scheduling, so this is equivalent to approx. 5 wks). Thus, I got an 83 and 84 in AP US History (5 on the AP exam) and a 73 in pre-ap physics... My counselor will address all of this in the letter.</p>
<p>*I'm looking for liberal arts schools, preferably in the northeast. Im looking for somewhere that manages to maintain a decent social scene in conjunction with top notch academics. I'm not opposed to public schools though, and while i tend to favor the northeast, its not a big deal - i'll go anywhere.</p>
<p>Schools i've looked at so far:</p>
<p>-Vassar (applying ED II)
-Macalester
-Middlebury
-Wesleyan
-Kenyon
-Oberlin
-University of Texas (Austin)
-University of Washington in St. Louis
-University of Vermont</p>