16 June 2009, 11:57 pm
Come fall, I will be a junior at the rather prestigious Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton, CA. My GPA from freshman and sophmore year average to about 3.85, and will be taking three or four AP classes next year and one honors class. While my grades are not up to par with the average Columbia student, I (hopefully) make up for it in extracurriculars. I have been a Girl Scout for 11 years, having earned both my Bronze and Silver awards, and am working on my Gold award. I am the leader of the Young Democrats Club, as well as IRIS, our gay-straight alliance. I sing for the campus ministry choir, which sings at the school masses and weekly prayer services, and I was a member of Advance Choir for both freshman and sophomore years (I would still be a member were it not for the program's cancellation). I have a rather full acting resume, beginning at age five to my current age, 15, including credentials such as the San Francisco Shakespeare Company. I was a member of the GATE (Gifted and Talented Enrichment) program every year prior to starting high school. I have qualified every year since sixth grade for the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth program, and was nominated for the National Leadership Summit. For the past four years, I have done a service trip to Peru to build homes and teach children, and have started a charity, raising money to send the impoverished children that I work with to private schools. Also, this summer (actually, in three days) I will be going on a month and a half long exchange program to Chile, as I am proficient in both Spanish, French, and German, the latter two self taught. Am I a good fit for Columbia??... Read More »
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