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First off, I am a man(or boy, take ur pick) who lives in CAlifornia. I'm a junior now, so I haven't taken the SAT yet. This is all i have as of now. I will probably get about a 1300-1380 on SAT. I am taking the SAT II this saturday for writing and math IC, and will probably take literature later

GPA: 3.9

Classes(besides the basic English, PE, band, etc and hist in all grades)

*9th:
Journalism
Creative Writing
Biology
Spanish II
Geometry

*10th grade:
Phsyiology Honors
Spanish III
Algebra 2/trig

*11th Grade:
Chemistry Honors
Spanish IV AP
Pre-Calc Honors

I don't know about my senior year yet, it depends on how this year goes. I didn't include my senior year on all of these (these being the extras you are about to read), so when you see the grades after the description remember that i will continue in 12th grade with most of them. Some extras are:

-Band
+Since 4th grade
Band in highschool:
+Wind ensemble 10,11
+Marching band 9,10,11
+Orchestra Winds 9,10,11
(i play three instruments)

-School Leadership
+Jr. Class President

-Clubs @ school
+CSF 9,10,11
+National Honors 11
+Best buddies 11
+Mock Trial 11
+Key club 9,10,11

-City Youth Council 7,8,9,10,11 (about 150 hours per school year of community service)
+Vice presidnet-10
+Presidnet-11

-4-H Club 6,7,8,9,10,11
+Vice president 10

-Have held a serious job with a Fortune 500 Company (about 15 hrs/week) since 9th grade

-California Assosciation of Student Councils leadership camp(went for leadership)-11

-California League of cities conferance(elected delegate from my city) 8,9,10

-about 5 other conferances i have attened as a delegate from my city

- summer before 11 grade
+Interned at Bio-science research lab as assistant lab tech (plus working at my other job)

- JV Volleyball 9,10
+Athletic SCholar for maintaing a GPA of 4.0 (both seasons) during a sports season

- Junior Solar Car Sprint organized by University of California at Berkeley, Society of Women Engineers. I did this in 8th grade, and now since i am in high school, i am too old. I go to the middle school and teach the little ones how to construct a solar powered car. (teach them about all the mechanics involved, attent the meetings)

-Academic Letter (for 3 consecutive semesters of 3.5 or above) 10

- Spanish department award

- Jr. Statesman of America - Mock congress, held in Sacramento

*-+ Mom, sister, Aunt went to USC
*-+ Grandfather went to Northwestern

so what are chances of USC, UCSB and Northwestern? Thanks for your time

By Bmurry (Bmurry) on Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 12:41 am: Edit

Sounds great but you really need those scores. They can break you.

If you do well I think would will do well.