What are my chances?

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<p>Female from very competitive public school in South Carolina.</p>

<p>GPA: weighted:4.6 unweighted:3.7ish
SAT: on the new SAT…verbal: 770
math: 610 (will be taking again)
writing: 700 (will also try to improve)
APS: not sure if this is significant, but I made a 5 on us history and a 3 on art history.
RANK: top ten percent, number 17ish? out of 350ish</p>

<p>As far as classes go, I take a mixed amount…2 APs, 2 honors with advanced science and math. However, next year I will be taking AP math and science as well as AP English and Honors history. I’m also taking service learning, where I volunteer daily as a class.</p>

<p>SCHOOL EXTRA CURRICULARS:</p>

<p>National Honor Society
vice president
Through this I do a variety of service projects.
National French Honor Society
National Art Honor Society
National Forensic League
Will probably reach my fourth degree soon.
Debate team
Youth Government Program
I served in a state leadership position last year and will this year.
Key Club
I do a good bit of service work through this.
I’m in the class leadership club that helps plan our classes’s functions and helps raise money.
I’ve been on the varsity golf team for the past two years, though I am quitting next year.
Spirit Committee- helps to plan Homecoming, orientation etc.
Beta Club</p>

<p>AWARDS ETC:
published in national magazine Teen Ink for literature
as said above…vice pres of NHS and selective leadership positions in state program
USAA National Science Award nominee
Winthrop college scholar</p>

<p>OUT OF SCHOOL STUFF:
I serve on my churches Youth Council which meets monthly and basically plans and helps to run the entire youth program.
I’m very active in my churches’s youth program.
I sing in my church’s youth choir, which puts on 2 shows annually and does a tour every summer to various churches.
I was a member of a youth mission team to the Bahamas for a week. We raised all the money for the trip ourselves. While there, we ran a sports camp for local children, worked on homes, and helped repair hurricane damage.
I play community basketball and have almost every year since I was 8.
I am a regular volunteer for Vacation Bible School every summer, and I help teach Sunday school during the year.</p>

<p>My essay will hopefully be good.</p>

<p>What would make me stand out more? What is good and what is bad? Where can I improve? Any input will help!</p>

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<p>-Your high verbal and decent writing score and your involvement in the art honor society and in forensics suggest that you are probably very good at and hopefully passionate about expressing yourself and using your activities to share who you are. If I'm not wrong about that, I would suggest that you focus on this aspect of yourself in your application and frame it that way. It will make your involvements seem like a more coherent list.</p>

<p>-If you are going to talk about the honor society and its accompanying public service activities, make sure to describe them as if they are significant and important to you--maybe pick one or two that were of particular significance. Don't just list every time the honor society did an AIDSWalk or gift wrapped at the mall or went to a geriatric center so that your list of community activities can be longer. (I am not suggesting that such activities are not important, of course! But a commitment to public service is better shown with a demonstration of quality than quantity.)</p>

<p>-Don't worry about your math and writing scores if you are taking it again; they will go up. If it's any encouragement, I took each of those exams twice and didn't really practice any more in between and went up 100 points in each just from having a better sense of what to expect and what I might have done wrong the first time. Obviously you're not me, but it can be done with focus. Your scores are good enough to suggest that they could be better, if that makes any sense.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>Also, if you feel you would want to be involved in the Christian community on campus and would have something special to offer, DEFINITELY include that in your application and try and connect it to other activities. The University is very interested in students who will provide the campus with a rich cultural atmosphere, and that includes people who are interested in contributing to religious life and keeping the lines of communication open for religious and cultural understanding. That was one of my favorite things about Brown--there was always an effort to create opportunities for students to learn from one another's backgrounds and values. A commitment to this objective would certainly set you apart.</p>