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sat:
800-math
670-verbal
don't know sat ii's scores yet!

frosh-4 honors
soph-5 honors
jr-4 honors +ap chem +cap history (college credit)
sr-will be 6 aps +cap psych

3.97 GPA (unweighted)
should be in top 10/650

decent cross-country runner, but not good enough for columbia's team-4 yrs
also track 2 seasons-4 yrs
350+ hrs of community service-volunteering at summer reading program, hospital (100+ hrs), wildlife refuge, st.vincent de paul society, red cross (100+ hrs)
red cross-vp of 65-member youth council, also disaster volunteer (go out w/adult volunteers to fires, natural disasters, etc to provide shelter/food to families affected)

national honor society, amnesty international (will attend a camp for amnesty youth leaders this summer), gsa (gay-straight alliance), science league (highest-scorer last year), foreign language honor society, french club

also summer-teaching preschool camp, possibly working at caterers
should be taking french/biology at community college during summer

probable majors-psychology/human rights/biology
would applying as a human rights major make me more likely to get in? cuz it's a pretty rare major, columbia's the only place i've seen it offered...

would be applying ed to either cc/johns hopkins. what does everyone think? oh, also, white, female, non-legacy
also-should i retake sats to get verbal up?

thanks so much!!

By O71394658 (O71394658) on Wednesday, May 14, 2003 - 05:43 pm: Edit

"columbia's the only place i've seen it offered..."

That might actually make it more popular.

Your chances are rather good.

By Jacci (Jacci) on Wednesday, May 14, 2003 - 05:53 pm: Edit

yeah...but i've read that u should always try and find something special about the college, so u can say "i want to go here because you have this major/this club/whatever"