<p>Title says it all; I feel inferior and rejected on here with my "oh so horrendous" 3.4 GPA and top 50% rank. Wanna give me some input here? </p>
<p>Firstly.. Stats:</p>
<p>White Male from Southern California (Born in Illinois, moved in 2002)
Attend pretty good public school
Not First Generation
GPA (Unweighted): 3.45
RANK: 212/501
ACT: 29 (29 E, 32 M, 28 R, 30 S)
ACT WRITING: 10
SAT: 1850
Major: Media/Film or related</p>
<p>Grade Trend: Freshman 3.4ish, Sophomore 3.8ish, junior 2.9ish</p>
<p>Honors/AP Classes: Algebra 1 HONORS, American History HONORS, Physical Science HONORS, English 9 HONORS, English 10 HONORS, AP Biology, AP US History, AP Psychology, Geometry HONORS, AP English Comp., AP Chemistry, AP European History, AP Environmental Science, HONORS Spanish III, AP Spanish Lang, AP Statistics, HONORS Physics</p>
<p>Senior Year Dual Enrollment (local cc) Classes: English 1201 (College Writing I), Principles of Macroeconomics, General Psychology, Healthy Living (HS grad requirement) Political Science 112 (Intro), Film and Graphics A</p>
<p>AP Scores: AP Biology (3), APUSH (3), AP Psychology (4), AP English Lang (4), AP Chemistry (1 (atleast I tried) )</p>
<p>^^ In regards to my poor AP Chem Exam score, my semester grades for AP Chemistry were B/A-. This does not indicate grade inflation; I was sick with the flu and throwing up at school 15 minutes before the exam. I pretty much felt like crap the whole time and twice almost got up and left.</p>
<p>Extra Curricular Activities:</p>
<p>Part Time Job @ Seattle’s Best Coffee; August 2008-Present; Typical 25 hours a week during school, and up to 40 during the summer</p>
<p>Part Time Job @ Target; March 2008-July 2008 (Left because they wouldn’t approve my availability changes and scheduled me during school)</p>
<p>2 Month Internship at Arclight Productions in LA; Focused on Entertainment Marketing and became somewhat familiar with basic image alteration software; 20 hours per week</p>
<p>3 week internship at Rogue Agent Industries in LA; assisted with lower-level commercial marketing and advertisements; 10 hours per week</p>
<p>Varsity Cross Country; 9th Grade-12th grade; Captain Position 2 consecutive Years; personally host several team events; lettered</p>
<p>Varsity Swimming/Diving; 9th Grade-12th Grade; Captain Position Senior Year; District Champion in 200 I.M., Voted “Best Teammate”; lettered</p>
<p>Varsity Track & Field; 10th-12th Grade; 4x400 m. relay/200 m. dash; will likely NOT letter</p>
<p>Band; 9th-12th; First Chair Percussionist</p>
<p>Marching Band; 11th-12th; Drumline; 4 hours per week; co-section leader senior year</p>
<p>School Technical Support Specialist (Our morning announcements are broadcasted over the TV and I double up on camera/audio.)</p>
<p>Started & am President of school’s Video Club; 10th-12th Grade; 10-15 hours per week; produce a full length video each school year; one of our videos (I helped write the script) was featured in the community at a volunteer banquet</p>
<p>Started (with 2 friends) school’s Stand Up Comedy Club; Founder; 3-4 hours per week; school sanctioned club,; recruited 17-20 members; host of several events</p>
<p>School Newspaper Publication; Co-Editor; 11th-12th Grade [possibly editor in chief this year], 4 hours per week</p>
<p>National Honor Society; 11th-12th grade; “Treasurer”; 40 community service hours from May 2009 to present</p>
<p>Key Club; 10th-12th; Solely a participant; may be elected onto the executive board this following year</p>
<p>Fall Musical; 10th Grade; 20 hours per week; had role of Will Parker in “Oklahoma”; hosted 3 cast events at my house; unfortunately can no longer participate due to my job
- considering being a part of the technical crew for this year, most likely with lighting or audio; assuming I can find time when I'm not at work and my course rigor allows time for it.</p>
<p>Speech Team; 8th-12th Grade (started early); Co-President; Received an award for being “most animated”; 4-5 hours a week
- Am getting a recommendation from this coach (who was also my AP English teacher)</p>
<p>School Camera Specialist (as part of Video Club); I’m in charge of video taping at important school events such as pep rallies and varsity football games; receive volunteer hours for this</p>
<p>Universities I plan to send applications to: (in no particular order)</p>
<p>University of Southern California
UC-Riverside
Arizona State University
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (triple legacy, first choice)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Emerson College
Cal Poly-SLO
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Indiana University-Bloomington</p>
<p>Possibly:
Stanford University (this would be really epic, but am I out of the game?)
UCLA/UCB</p>
<p>Anyways.. If I could be told where I stand for these schools, that'd be awesome.</p>
<p>-Cody</p>