<p>ellafunt, why in the world are you retaking a 1520? That's basically the same as a 1600 in an adom's eyes.</p>
<p>i know it sounds stupid, and trust me, my friends have said it often enough...it's a cummulation of smaller reasons:
1) i took four practice tests and didnt get below a 1550 on any of them
2) my cousin got a 1560 and she's from texas! i can't be shamed :X
3) i bubbled two answers wrong, which is just plain stupid/irritating</p>
<p>Applying EA to McDonough School of Business.
SAT: 790 Math, 730 Verbal = 1520
SAT IIs: 790 Writing, 720 Math IC, 720 US History
GPA: 3.8 Unweighted, school does not rank
School is very good public but does not offer tons of AP classes other than in the sciences, so will only have four by end of senior year. Have taken all honors/accelerated classes possible.
AP World History: 5
AP US History: 4
AP Calc AB: 2 (looong story...teacher got sick and left school, no instruction for 2.5 months)
This year: AP Statistics</p>
<p>Okay extracurriculars...nothing fantastic.</p>
<p>Applying to: SFS</p>
<p>SAT: 1470
M:73
V:740</p>
<p>ACT: 34</p>
<p>SAT IIs:
Writing: 790
Literature: 700
US History: 700
Math: took in Nov.
Spanish: took in Nov.</p>
<p>GPA: 4.6 W, around 3.9 UW</p>
<p>APs:
Micro/Macro Economics
United States History
Calculus
Biology
Physics
Government
English
Spanish
All other classes are honors.</p>
<p>ECs:
-Irish dancing (10 years, competitions throughout US and Canada)
-Mock Trial (went to state as attorney)
-International Relations Club (vp and secretary)
-Moderator of Mock Presidential Debate
-Designed and updated my parish's website
-Campus ministry
-volunteer for Hoop Stars Camp and Catholic Charities
-WYSE team (won state)</p>
<p>Awards, etc:
-National Merit Semi-finalist
-National Spanish Exam Award
-National Biology Olympiad</p>
<p>Smed05, great stats. Good luck. I think you'll be accepted.</p>
<p>redr002, you totally just made my day. :)</p>
<p>glad for the boost, and I really mean it, too! I'm impressed.</p>
<p>By the way, can you tell me (us) a little bit about your international relations club?</p>
<p>Sure. The International Relations Club at my high school is pretty open in terms of what we want to do. Basically if we find something interesting or something in the news sparks our interest, we bring it to the club and see if we can do something about it. </p>
<p>For example, when the War in Iraq was just starting, we had a forum at our high school for anyone who wanted to come. We had a bunch of student panelists from the club as well as panelists we invited to come (the Lt. Governor of our state for a political perspective, an officer from the Army for a military perspective, and because we're a Catholic school, a priest for a religious perspective). It was basically like a moderated debate and people could ask questions at the end.</p>
<p>We also had a mock presidential debate with two club members acting as Kerry and Bush (and me as moderator). The two guys really got into character and were handing out campaign buttons during school and shaking hands with random people in the hall; it was really fun. They were given what topics the debate would cover but not the exact questions, and they prepared really well so it turned out great.</p>
<p>So obviously we've done a lot with international politics especially with the War in Iraq, but we also do more cultural-type events. We had a "Coming to America" celebration where any student who had parents who immigrated to the US could come with their parents and we had foods from all their different countries and different music, etc. Two years ago we had an Austrialian exchange teacher who switched places with one of our regular teachers for a year, so we had a "Down Under Day" where he came and talked about Austrialia and showed pictures, and students could ask questions such as how US high schools were different from Austrialian high schools, etc.</p>
<p>Right now we're working on sending letters and care packages to members of the military in Iraq. One of the members of our club has an uncle in Iraq so we're sending a few boxes to him and his unit for Christmas. In the spring we'll also be sending materials to Iraq, but through a different programs where soldiers ask for school supplies to distribute to Iraqi children. </p>
<p>Ok, wow, that turned out to be a really long answer. Anyways, that's our club. Hope it answered your question!</p>
<p>Yes, you did, and thanks for taking the time to answer! Very interesting, and sounds like you all do really good work.</p>
<p>Wow! The most involved club in my school is the football team.</p>
<p>Applied EA to the COL for Spanish and Pre-Med
SAT's 1520 (760/760)
Writing-780, Spanish-740, BioM-730, Math IC-710, Math IIC-690
No GPA or rank, but about an A- average. I'm taking a full college course load this year (instead of AP's), at a selective public math&science highschool
College Courses I will have taken as of the end of the year:
-Calc I-III
-Statistics
-US History
-Chem I and II
-Microbiology
-Cell Biology
-Shakespeare
-British Lit after Shakespeare
-and 2 advanced Spanish lit and Culture classes
(where I take classes goes by a quarter schedule which is why I have so many classes for one year)</p>
<p>EC's:
~Mock Trial 4 years
~TaeKwonDo-7 years, black belt, national competitior
~Tons of Volunteer work including the ER at a local hospital, mentoring underprivileged kids, working at a camp for middle school girls interested in science and engineering, and the food bank. Over 500 hours.
~I've been very involved with my church and all kinds of pro-life stuff
~National Honor Society
~I did research on Athlete's Foot in a University lab
~I've had a job for the past 2 years, working 10-20 hours per week</p>