<p>"Be home in twenty minutes." </p>
<p>Alright, so that was my lame attempt at getting someone to actually open this thread.</p>
<p>I'm actually going to be a junior in HS next year, so I don't have any SAT scores to offer you guys, which I realize might make it harder... but don't heckle me about it. I'm just curious to see about what you guys might say. I know I can't predict the future, but I'm definitely going to be attending some sort of "boot camp" type program for the SATs and ACTs and/or getting a private tutor from Princeton or Kaplan so if I work hard (which I normally do), I should be able to get decent scores on the tests. </p>
<p>Okay, statistics.</p>
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<li>"Distinguished" public school in Southern California</li>
<li>Black/African-American</li>
<li>Okay, here's the deal: I took the AP Euro exam last year and got a 2. Yes, I know it's bad... but my mom's good friend's daughter is at Stanford and failed it but still managed to get a B+ in the class. AP Euro was horrible for me. But my APs will eventually be:
★ AP English (2 yrs)
★ AP US History
★ AP Government
★ AP Stats
★ AP Spanish
★ I'm taking a community college class in psych this summer, which my counselor said would be like taking another AP.</li>
<li>My GPA as of right now is like a 3.9 something, but usually it's like a high 3.8. I'm pretty sure that's unweighted. Honestly, I'm not familiar with how the whole scoring deal works. Yes, I suck. But I'm going to guess and say that weighted my GPA would be 3.9-3.8 and unweighted would be 3.7-3.8. </li>
</ul>
<p>Extracurriculars:
- Ryman Arts @ USC (A selective arts program that I applied to and was accepted to for a fall term scholarship)
- Staff writer on school's newspaper sophomore year
- A&E editor on school's newspaper junior year
- Editor-in-chief senior year (this is pretty much a done deal, my advisor told me)
- Minor or major in visual Arts Academy at my school (pretty well-known in the community, I'll have about 700 hrs at the end of college courses in art as well as local art exhibitions that my school does)
- Commissioner of Publicity for "Helping Hands" Club (we tutor people who need help)
- Numerous Art Academy awards for various categories</p>
<p>Awards:
- Blue Honor Roll all four years (expected)
- CSF Member all four years (expected)
- Service Learning Award from volunteering at church (expected, since I already have well over the minimum of hours)
- Top 5% or less of my class</p>
<p>I'm most likely leaving out stuff, but... anything that was left out probably doesn't matter much anyway.</p>
<p>I'm thinking of applying to the following schools:
- USC (If I get accepted there, I will most definitely be going there for communication.)
- Syracuse
- UC Berkeley
- NYU
- Boston University
- Northwestern (Yes, it's not likely, but I'm going to try it as one of my "reach" schools.)
- And a whole bunch of other places I've been told are safety schools, e.g. Loyola Marymount, UC San Diego, etc.</p>
<p>Thank you in advance.</p>