<p>I haven’t had a chance to visit, but Bowdoin has always intrigued me. Now that I’m getting closer and closer to actually applying places, I was wondering whether I even have a chance at all.</p>
<p>White/female from TN</p>
<p>One of the top public high schools (I think its in the top 500ish nationally) in the south. Recent graduates have gone onto the likes of Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Emory, Vandy, several public ivies, etc…</p>
<p>Possible majors:History, English, or Political Science
possible minors:Spanish, Latin American Studies, Economics
(don’t worry, I’m not going to try to do all of them)
after college: either law school,grad school, or business school</p>
<p>GPA: 3.73 (unweighted)/4.1 (weighted)
class rank:most likely top 10%
I will have taken 9 AP classes, 6 honors classes, and 4 years of foreign language.</p>
<p>ACT: 30 (33 reading/30 math/29 english/26 science)</p>
<p>high school schedule:
freshman
Orchestra-A
Geometry Honors-B
English Honors-A
Health Class-A
Biology-A
Spanish 1-A</p>
<p>sophomore (definately weakest part of my application)
Spanish 2-B
Alg 2/Trig-A
Orchestra Honors-A
English Honors-A
World History honors-B
Chemistry-B
english/history is a team-taught class that is arguably the hardest at my
high school including AP classes</p>
<p>junior year
AP US History-A
AP Physics B-B
Pre-Calculus-A
AP Junior English-A
US Government-A
AP Micro Economics-A
Spanish 3-A</p>
<p>senior year schedule
AP Senior English
AP Calculus AB
Gym(required to graduate)
AP Macro Economics
AP Environmental Science
AP Modern European History
Spanish 4, Honors</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Karate (1996-present)
training for 12 years
Second degree black belt:10/06
Nationally Certified Assistant Instructor Certification: 12/04
I teach both children/adults every week
Presidents Vision Tour Committee senior member
Head of 117th Regional Black Belt testing committee
2006 National Championship:
2nd place in two divisions
scoring/timekeeping committee
2005 Regional Championships:
3rd place in one division
Judging committee
Rotaract (2004-present)
Treasurer-2007
Head of Habitat for Humanity project chair-2006/2007
Relay for Life project chair-2006
RYLA nominated leadership conference participant-2006
Project Committee member-2005
various other projects I’ve been apart of
Student Council(2005-present)
Head of a committee, member of another committee
Homeroom Representative
Orientation tour guide since sophomore year
School Newspaper(2004-2005)-it was a class, could only fit it in one year
Sports Editor
TN HS Press Association award for feature article
National Honor Society member & tutoring/speaker committee member
400+ hours of volunter work by time of graduate (Presidents Gold Award)
Girls Club for two summers,then Animal Shelter,then juvy law group
Distinguished Spanish 1 Student award</p>
<p>The teachers doing my recommendations know me very well(one teacher I had freshman/junior year, the other I had sophomore/junior year) so I’m sure they’ll be excellent. I think essays are also one of my strong points</p>