<p>Hey everyone. I am a junior in high school and need to know if anyone thinks I have a chance at any school!</p>
<p>My Academics:</p>
<p>I am an Attention Deficit Disorder kid, and I just figured this out in the middle of my junior year. I went through rounds of testing and though I scored in the 99th percentile IQ wise, I was left at the very bottom of those tested for attention levels. Once on medication in the last few months every single one of my grades, from AP to non-AP classes, has risen to an A or A Plus. Before this my GPA was 3.7 weighted, which is not very high, but now it should have had a tremendous increase, especially for this particular semester. I had done tons of schedule rearranging because i thought it was just me being unready for 3 AP classes, but now I am confident it was my disorder. I took AP Euro last year and am in AP Government and AP English Language this year. In addition, I have taken all honors courses and due to how well I am doing on medication, I am planning on taking 4 AP Courses next year (AP Lit, AP US, AP Psychology, AP Comparative Government).</p>
<p>I also did a major independent study involving the decoding of the "DaVinci Code." it involved heavy research, communication with major authors from around the world, and a large-scale presentation to the community to discuss the novel and others from the mind of Dan Brown.</p>
<p>My grades are all very, very high now, and my teachers and school have been working incredibly intimately with me on overcoming my problem.</p>
<p>I know- sounds funny.</p>
<p>Extra-Curriculars</p>
<p>I am a theatre student and these are my extras-</p>
<p>Leadership Positions
Board of National Junior Honors Society
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS youth rep of my county
Founder of School Tolerance Society
year Press Rep of Thespian Society
now President of Thespian Society
Leader of Cappies Program and member of founding team of high school theatre critics at my school
Journalism club- write for newspaper</p>
<p>I have won the Critic's Choice Award every year (the highest award possible in one's category at Thespian Competitions) in addition to scoring as highly as possible at the State Thespian Conferences two years in a row.</p>
<p>I have acted in 7 Productions at my school, including a One-man show
I directed a one-act and designed the lighting of the one-act festival
I Assistant Directed the children's show Alice in Wonderland
I Starred in a major starry benefit for LEAH- A Holocaust Awareness Program</p>
<p>I have raised hundreds of dollars for both Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS and the global fund</p>
<p>I organized a school exhibit raising awareness of HIV AIDS which included pieces of the AIDS quilt and other materials</p>
<p>This summer I will be volunteering at JAFCO teaching theatre to foster children, in addition to volunteering at the major local summer theatre festival
I will also be attending the NYU Theatre Summer Program for high schoolers( I was one of 16 from 400 students chosen)</p>
<p>In the Fall I have organized a huge charity program for Operation Iraqi Children- becoming penpals with Iraqi children and sending them school supplies, toys, and sports equipment- in addition to shoes and blankets.
It will involve the lower, middle, and high school portion of my school.</p>
<p>I have been published in the major local paper 4 times for my theatre reviews and I am part of a youth theatre critics program</p>
<p>I have won awards for that organization as well</p>
<p>I write cultural awareness articles for my School Newspaper</p>
<p>I attended a prestigious theatre program for the last two summers and the summer before that I went to a Youth Socialist program where I took workshops from people like Howard Zinn</p>
<p>As a playwright, my school has put on a staged reading of one of my works and I have written 6 plays.</p>
<p>I organized Thespian events to provide the financial means for thespians to go to state festivals and to raise money for Broadway Cares. (specifically, I organized two Acting For AIDS Evenings of Theatre and many other events)</p>
<p>My old Sat Score was a 1420 and my new SAT Score I have yet to receive- I will be taking the subject tests in June and my ACT also in June.</p>
<p>My essays will be wonderful (i hope) and my reccomendations will be too(from the school headmaster, my history prof., drama prof., and english prof.)</p>
<p>I have other Extra-Curriculars, but cannot remember them right now and have to go study.</p>
<p>I would like to apply to schools for either dramatic writing or just general theatre studies (a few I might audition for their BFA Programs)</p>
<p>I want to apply to:</p>
<p>NYU
UF
FSU
University of Miami
Columbia
Yale
Northwestern
DePaul
Carnegie Mellon
Boston University
Syracuse
Ithaca</p>
<p>Are any of these schools viable possibilities?
THANK YOU</p>