Photography Poses and Other Cool Stuff

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Ed

I have pretty good SAT scores and excellent grades (4.0 gpa unweighted, 4.6 weighted) but I know that everyone who applys to top schools has good stats so you need extracurriculars to help you stand out. Do you think mine are good? Cause I have some, but I haven’t done anything for more than 2 or 3 years, and there’s nothing that really makes me stand out. (I have seen some people on yahoo answers with activites like peace missions and all this crazy stuff.) And a lot of people told me its good to have some type of focus but mine are kind of all over the place. (I plan to major in either cs or business) Here’s my activites:

-school newspaper 2 yrs
-diversity/tolerance club at my school 3 yrs, secretary and then vp
-volunteer at library (helped organized childrens summer reading program)
-volunteer at a local christmas tree business every winter
-club photographer for surf club 1 yr
(and I also took a photography class at a community college)
-csf 4 yrs
-spanish honor society 2 yrs (tutor spanish every wed)
-internship 1 summer
-I don’t know if this counts for anything but I do own a website where I display and sell photographs

things I haven’t done yet but considering doing next year:
-academic quiz team, speech and debate, study abroad for the summer, leadership conference

Some schools I want to go to are ucla, berkeley, stanford, and ivy leagues. I think its good for ucla and maybe berkeley but do you think I’ll have a chance at stanford or upenn or something? And what can I do to stand out?
Yeah, I’ve taken 8 aps classes and gotten 4 or 5s on all of the ap tests.

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