Hi everyone, I am going to list my application here and I wanna know my chances of
getting into a top college
Grades and Scores
GPA: 4.96 unweighted (school is on 5.0 scale) and 5.64 weighted
SAT: 1410 first time (taking again next week and have scored in the 1500s in practice)
Classes
By the time i’m done with high school, I will have taken 11 AP classes (score listed to right)
-AP Euro (5)
-APUSH (5)
-AP Lang (4)
-AP Seminar (3)
-AP Macro
-AP French (Illinois State Seal of Bilingualism)
-AP Literature
-AP Calc BC
-AP Statistics
-APES
-AP US Gov
Have taken most challenging classes available and have gotten 2 B’s, one first semester of freshman year, and one first semester of junior year
Extra Curriculars
-Marketing job at mall for 1.5 years from sophomore year to junior year
-Camp Counselor to children for summer (40 hours a week)
-Soccer: Played freshman year, got pulled up, and played varsity until junior year until i had to quit due to concussions, academic all conference, club soccer captain both freshman and sophomore year
-Tennis: Played freshman year, got pulled up sophomore year to varsity and will play all four years, state qualifier, x2 conference champ, academic all conference
-Golf: Varsity junior and senior year, academic all conference, teammates chose me as captain
-School newspaper contributor
-Scholastic bowl junior and senior year
-Planning on starting own plotical club at school
-Attended leadership conference in chicago where i had to apply and all expenses were paid by organization
-Member of every honors society at my school (5)
Recommendations
One from my three year tennis coach who is also my math teacher, holds me in good regard, developed close and meaningful relationship
Other from APUSH teacher who is like a second father to me and am on his list of all time favorite students, taught me more about life than anyone
Essay
Writing about an eye opening experience after watching a certain movie that i feel answered two important questions: “what does it mean to be an american?” “what is the purpose of life?”
Miscellaneous
-Speak 4 languages
-Eastern European immigrant after living there for five years
-Mother put herself through college after coming to
america and is getting doctorate
-Father will soon get bachelors degree