Rising Jr Seeking Help!!!!!!!!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi guys,
I'm a rising junior and beginning to freak out a bit about colleges :P
I'm putting my resume down and am really hoping some nice people with college experience can tell me how my resume is, what I can improve upon, and what schools are in my reach.
I want to double major in poli sci & econ with a minor in philosophy and potentially go on to law school </p>

<p>Class Rank: 11/179 (fairly competitive private school)
GPA: 3.7
SATs: still have to take those...</p>

<p>Freshman Year Schedule:
Advanced Honors Alg 1 >most challenging course available as a freshman
American History > most challenging course available as a freshman (no honors option)
Survey of Lit & Grammar Comp 1
Honors Physical Science > most challenging course available as a freshman
Theology 1 (I go to a catholic school) > most challenging course available as a freshman
French 1 > most challenging course available as a freshman</p>

<p>Sophomore Year Schedule:
Honors Geometry > most challenging course available as a sophomore
French 2 > most challenging course available as a sophomore
Honors Bio > most challenging course available as a sophomore
American Lit
Honors Sacraments & Morality > most challenging course available as a sophomore
Honors Western Civ > most challenging course available as a sophomore</p>

<p>Upcoming Junior Year Schedule:
Honors French 3 > most challenging class available as a junior
APUSH > most challenging class available as a junior
Honors Chemistry > most challenging class available as a junior
Brit Lit
Accounting 1 or Honors pre calc, i am still undecided
Honors Church History & Social Justice > most challenging course available as a junior
Marketing 1 - elective semester course
Business & Personal Law - elective semester course</p>

<p>I know my course load is pretty weak compared to other applicants, but my school offers very little :(</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Forensics (speech & debate):
-Congressional Debater
-team captain since sophomore year
-2 time NCFL national semifinalist
-NFL national semifinalist
-Pennsylvania state champion sophomore year
-Tournament of Champions Semifinalist
-Villiger Invitational (St. Josephs University) Champion
-6th place at GMU Patriot Games Invitational
-numerous local awards including many first place finishes</p>

<p>Mock Trial:
-best witness & attorney award freshman year
-best attorney award sophomore year
-helped team advance to semifinals 2 years in a row
-interviewed on TV for success in mock trial</p>

<p>FBLA (future business leaders of america):
-district champion in Public Speaking 1
-4th place in PA states in public speaking 1
-local chapter's reporter</p>

<p>Girl Scouts:
-presidential award in community service
-bronze award
-silver award
-led troop meetings and served as a mentor for younger scouts
-completed gold award, my project involved working with a local pediatric rehab hospital to develop a guide full of activities for all different ages and skill sets so once the children went home they could carry on their rehab with their guardians. The guide is a living document and will be sustained after I am out of the picture. I also held a toy drive to raise awareness of the hospitals needs and raised over $1500 in toys. </p>

<p>FRIENDS:
-this is my school's peer counseling group.
-in order to be a part of this I went through an application and interview process and once accepted, attended a 2-day overnight training session. </p>

<p>MISC.
-Marine Corps Good Citizenship Award</p>

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<p>Your resume is good. I think you have a picked a good number of activities to dedicate yourself too, so do not waste time doing more stuff. As for Junior year, shoot for the starts in your activities! Try to place in NFL, Mock Trial and FBLA Nats and that should distinguish your resume.</p>

<p>Test scores are a massive part of your application, so i would definitely focus on those.</p>

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<p>thank you! do you have any advice on math? I really do not want to take pre calc or calc and want to lean more towards accounting & probs & stats… but everyone has told me i need to take calc… thoughts?</p>

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<p>If you are not very math-oriented, then I do not think it will hurt you very much. However, I think just for the sake of admissions, you should take AP Calc AB (if available) at some point; just because everyone takes AB Calc. It’s honestly a pretty joke curriculum. I took the class sophomore year and I am not necessarily a math genius.</p>

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<p>will it really hurt me if i don’t take calc?</p>

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<p>Where is Algebra 2? Pretty sure that’s a requirement for colleges…
And personally, I would really recommend it. While you may not want to pursue math, it let’s colleges know that you still have that knowledge of calculus. The same way how I’m not English oriented, but I am still taking the most rigorous English pathway in my highschool.</p>

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<p>So what all these guys said was excellent. The only thing I can add, and really the only thing I should stress is study for the SAT or ACT (Which ever you’re taking). The test is not as easy as it may sound and besides, taking it really just sucks, so you really only want to take it once, twice tops</p>

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<p>sorry, I forgot to mention I am currently taking an alg2 course over the summer so I can skip up to precalc for my junior year if I decide to take it.</p>

<p>on a side note, does anyone have good college recommendations for me, keeping in mind my resume? Or at least a good level of difficulty for colleges I could get into?</p>