<p>I'm a high school junior from NJ interested in UVa as well as ED Cornell...</p>
<p>-white female student from middle-class background. also first gen. college student.
-UW GPA: 3.9
-ACT score: 28
-Rank: top 18% (66 out of 365), but it was because I moved from a school that didn't rank or weight grades, nor did I have as many class periods as I do at my new school.
-All honors classes since 9th grade
-2 AP classes junior year (bio and eng)
-will take 4 AP classes senior year (us hist, us gov, psych, eng)
-four years of spanish
-editor of yearbook both junior and senior year. I put in A LOT of hours for this thing since we didn't have much of a staff or funds to help. I practically wrote the whole book and spent several hours everyday after school, plus saturdays marketing and putting this thing together. So, I'm very dedicated to yearbook.
-yearbook sophomore, but not as involved.
-interact club soph, jun, and sen year
-NHS
-will become a volunteer EMT this summer (plan to work 40+ hours)
-grocery cashier last summer, but had to quit mid-school year because of homework. thinking about reapplying this summer.
-taking a statistics class at a local CC this summer
-I moved after my freshman year from FL
-I have some good essay topics in mind</p>
<p>Also, I took the SATs in Dec and got an 1800 on it. Should I retake those or the ACTs again?</p>