<p>-Junior at 2nd "highest ranked" public high school in California
-3.7-ish unweighted, 3.8-ish weighted (i'm not completely sure what my gpa is right now)
-New SAT 2120 (690 math, 700 reading, 730 writing......i'm happy with my score but will probably take again just to see if i can do better)
-Taking SAT II's in May
-School doesn't rank
-AP Euro - 4
-Taking more or less the most AP's i can take at my school (there aren't many honors classes at my school. my school's courses are fairly cut and dry, not THAT many options)
-Schedule this year:
Calc AB AP
AP US
Spanish 4 Honors
Physics,
French 1,
Orchestra,
English.</p>
<p>-Next year's schedule will be
AP Statistics
Gov/Econ (no ap offered)
spanish 5 AP
psychology (ap curriculum but not technically ap class)
orchestra
english.</p>
<p>AP's I'm going to take over the next 2 years: Calculus AB, US History, Psychology, Statistics, Spanish Language, and possibly Spanish Literature</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars:
Been playing cello for 6 years
Been in school orchestra every year since 6th grade
Been in selective private youth orchestra for 2 years
Currently in a string ensemble that's playing at competitions
Played Piano for 6 years also
Won a number of local competitions
I don't think I'm good enough at cello to try to advertise myself as a potential player in any school's orchestra, heh</p>
<p>Will have had been in the Interact club at my school for 4 years</p>
<p>Volunteer for Amigos de las Americas, a program that is along the lines of Peace Corps for High School students. Students go through an intensive year long training and then live in a rural community of 500 or less people in latin america with no electricity or running water with one other partner for 2 months. In the communities, the volunteers work with the community members to implement projects for the community and programs for the school. I was a volunteer for 2 months last summer in Paraguay and will be a volunteer for another 2 months this summer in the Dominican Republic. It is very rare for someone to volunteer 2 summers in a row. Out of the approximately 500 volunteers that go every summer, about 5 will go the next summer. I am also on traning staff this year, training new volunteers (huge commitment). I also tutor hispanic immigrants in english through this program. This is my real passion and devote huge amounts of my time and effort to it. <a href="http://www.amigoslink.org%5B/url%5D">www.amigoslink.org</a> if you're interested.</p>
<p>Went to selective summer school at UC Berkeley 2 summers in a row, one summer taking German 1 and the other summer taking Japanese 1 and a Linguistics class.</p>
<p>I have been on a panel discussion for my school district about stress on students. I am also going to be a delegate for my school district for a Bay Area wide workshop and discussion about stress on students at Stanford.</p>
<p>I took place in a fake car accident at my school to promote awareness of Drunk Driving. A 50+ hour plus commitment for me. <a href="http://www.everyfifteenminutes.com%5B/url%5D">www.everyfifteenminutes.com</a> for more information</p>
<p>As of the middle of sophomore year (before my volunteering in latin america with Amigos) I'm ranked 19th in "spanish ability" in california among non-native speakers (we took a standardized test that the entire state took and i got the 19th highest score in the state). I also take french.</p>
<p>I participate heavily in the Odyssey of the Mind competition program. It's a creative problem solving competition in which a team prepares a skit for about 9 months that has to follow certain guidelines and then performs it at a competition. This year is my 7th year participating. I have gone to the State Finals 4 times, placing 3rd, 2nd, 1st, and winning a special award given out to teh most creative team, each on differant years. I have gone to the World Finals 2 times, placing 5th one year (a huge accomplishment). I will be going to the World Finals again this year.</p>
<p>I don't know if it means anything, but I babysit every week for 5 hours. I've been doing it every week for about 9 months. </p>
<p>For my rec letters, one of them will be AMAZING (my spanish teacher) and one of them will be pretty good - at least i hope (math teacher). My guidance counselor rec will also be AMAZING.</p>
<p>I want to study Japanese, Spanish, and/or Linguistics.</p>
<p>Schools I'm interested in (from all ranges of selectivity)
Brown (first choice)
Yale
Harvard
BU
Tufts
Wesleyan
Georgetown
Northwestern
UC's
-Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, LA, San Diego
USC
Pomona or Claremont Mckenna
University of Washington
Emory</p>
<p>I realize a lot / most of those schools are big reaches for me, but they're reaches for everyone and if no one applied to them no one would get in? What would you say are my chances at any of the said schools? Would you reccomend any schools?</p>
<p>The way I'm feeling about school is that I would only want to go to the east coast if I got into a really great school. Otherwise I want to stay in California. I visited schools on the east coast over spring break and FROZE to death in the 40 degree weather, while everyone there was saying how warm it was. I don't know if I'd be able to deal with the weather, haha. i'm spoiled weather wise</p>
<p>Thanks SO much for reading this. I really appreciate it</p>