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My name is Varenka Rdz, I was born in Mexico and currently living in Mexico still but I have lived in about 4 places in Mexico and also in Canada so my English is pretty good ,
I have a gpa of 3.8 , in class rank I’m 1st out of 20 students, I speak Spanish as my first language English as my second , and I speak French fluently.

some of my extra curricular activities I’ve been working on are:
Freshman year

*Debate team captain English/Spanish
*student council
*Oratory English/Spanish
*Poetry recitals English/Spanish
*School Play acting
*social participation such as: ECYD(guide), Angle for a day ,Club quinto guide, Un Kilo De Ayuda
*President of ANCLA( association of abstinence to smoking drinking and drugs) and conferences at my community
* courses and volunteer work at: homeless shelters, orphanages, helping kids with hearing disabilities.
*soccer , basket ball player at school for 7 years now
* tennis player for 10 years and regional winner for 2 years.
*private math and Chemistry Tutoring
*group of the international show case (investigation of cultures and languages)
9th grade summer: its not relevant but I helped around at a place where they breed dogs.

(Sophomore)
*shadow on summer and help around
*student council
*I’m debate team cap (English)
* Some more volunteer work
*Work on my French and maybe get started on German
* Job :Kids hospital (summer)
* Red cross volunteering (after school and on weekends)
* Basketball (Guadalajara and CECVAC Tournaments)
* Premios bachillerato Anahuac ( Debate in English and Spanish and oratory in English )
*Helping at an organization called Lazos (promoting and helping to find ways to raise money for the unprivileged kids at rural schools)
* Tutoring (Math ,Chemistry and Biology)
*Class President
*Continue preaching at rural places ,and still be ECYD Guide
* Club flame( soccer player – soccer coach)
* Continue soccer –tennis ( aiming for state title) Basketball ( school team – going to a few tournaments)
* I’m starting to make plans to fund a Earth club at school.
* some spelling bee uh regional not that its important

I know these ain’t impressive but I’m really working hard to find something else to add to the list
I know I also need real good SAT scores , which I will try my hardest to obtain.

I want to major in biochemistry

I’m also thinking of applying to these other Univ.

Cornell University
Univ. of Michigan Ann Arbor
Boston Univ. (maybe)
NYU (maybe)
Northwestern (maybe
Brown Univ.
McGill Univ
Rice Univ
Harvard
Yale EA

any more schools I should consider?

oh um the high school I’m attending right now is a roman catholic private high school , and I’m NOT going to ask for financial aid I think that makes things easier.

aim over 1450 in my sat I and on the SAT II BIOLOGY CHEM and math , i will try aiming over 700
I really like playing tennis but would like to play college soccer .

My school offers no AP classes but in the senior year it divides onto fields of study , there are 4 fields, Bio Chemistry, Law,Math-Physics,Buisness

By Neo (Neo) on Sunday, September 28, 2003 - 01:45 pm: Edit

You haven't taken SATs or SAT IIs.

By Cornell00 (Cornell00) on Sunday, September 28, 2003 - 07:13 pm: Edit

i know but over all what do you all think my chances are with those ec's

By Neo (Neo) on Sunday, September 28, 2003 - 10:32 pm: Edit

Well, you're not going to be able to list all but 5 of them at the most on an application, so I can't really say. What really matters is how much you do in your ECs, not how many you have. Truthfully, how many of these ECs do you participate in on a daily basis? How many do you spend time thinking of or working on because they're just that important to you?

Answer those qs for me, and throttle down the list a bit. Then I'll have a better estimate.

By Cornell00 (Cornell00) on Sunday, September 28, 2003 - 11:17 pm: Edit

i participate on those ec's by periods of time since most of them are not!! long lasting as you can see!!