<p>So, here is my situation. I have been homeschooled throughout high school. I follow the "classical" homeschooling method and am taking world literature and world history spread out over a four-year chronological sequence, as well as four years of Latin, 1 year of art/music history, 1 year of formal logic and 2 years of rhetoric. This makes taking AP courses a challenge, because I study US, world and European history all together and won't finish until the end of next year. I haven't taken any AP math either, because I've only just finished trig, and I'm not good enough at science. I have taken an extremely rigorous courseload that's heavily focused on Great Books rather than textbooks. I read Plato and Aristotle in 9th grade, Dante and Chaucer in 10th, etc. But the difficulty of my schoolwork is not reflected in my weighted GPA or transcript. I have also taken many community college courses as a dual enrolled student.</p>
<p>With that in mind, please chance me for the following schools:
-Yale
-Princeton
-Columbia
-Brown
-Georgetown
-University of Chicago
-Claremont McKenna College
-George Washington
-American University
-Florida State (in-state/legacy)
Stats:
-Prospective major: Political science
-White female
-State: Florida
-School: Homeschooled
-GPA: Not exactly sure, but I have gotten straight As except for 1 B in a dual enrollment course
-SAT: 2170: 800 Critical Reading, 670 Math, 700 Writing, will retake
-SATII: Will take in October
-APs so far: US Government, 5, English Language, 4, both self study
-Planned APs: US History, World history, Euro history, Latin Vergil, Statistics, Environmental Science
-Community college dual enrollment courses completed: Political Science, American Social Problems, Honors Speech Communication, Honors Elementary Spanish 1 and 2, Honors Public Speaking
-Planned dual enrollment coursed: Big public university: Intermediate Spanish 1 and 2, Intro to World politics, Contemporary Literature. CC: Honors English Literature after 1800, Honors Knowledge through the Ages
Academic Honors:
-Community College President's List: For students with the highest GPAs, even higher than Dean's List
-Phi Theta Kappa: Honor society for 2-year colleges. Just got enough credits to be inducted. Plan to participate actively in the fall
-Community College Outstanding Spanish Student: Only student chosen from Spanish department on my campus
-National Merit: Commended Student for sure, possibly Semifinalist
-Wrote 4000-word rhetorical analysis essay for honors project, requiring hours of research
ECs:
-Girls State: One of 300 girls chosen from entire state, weeklong state government program. Elected senator, assistant party whip, and city manager. One of 12 chosen to win Outstanding Citizen award.
-Intern, Organizing for America (Obama campaign): Full time in summer, part time during school year
-Core Council Member, MoveOn: Helped organize local events and voter registration drives
-Judo, 2 years. I am a green belt and on the Board of Directors at my judo club with lots of volunteer hours (its a nonprofit)
-Attended 2 national judo camps with Olympians training
-Attended six-week local leadership training program and acted as mayor in mock city council
-Write and publish a political blog, it's fairly new and not too popular but I'm working on improving it
-Co-founded, co-edit and write for an online newsletter for my homeschool group
-Will do Center for Student Leadership, College Democrats and Political Forum club on my college campus where I dual-enroll this semester
Other:
-Essays: Should be solid, I'm a decent writer
-Recs: Will be very positive. Both from college professors who taught me for 2 semesters in honors classes. One is my speech professor with whom I really bonded and one is my Spanish professor who nominated me for an award.</p>