Quick Facts
Home: Boulder, Colorado Favorite Movie: Wedding Crashers Favorite Singer/Band: many (including Counting Crows, Goo Goo Dolls, and Barenaked Ladies) Favorite TV Show: "House M.D." Favorite Food: Italian probably Favorite Subject: Social Studies Intended Major: Economics maybe Favorite Saying:"When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are past, I want that they should bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass." -- Bob Knight

My name is Mac, and I am a senior in Boulder, Colorado. My high school is consistently ranked as one of the top public high schools in the country, so it is a very competitive school (meaning a 4.4 weighted GPA doesn't get me into the top 10% of my class). It is a 5A school athletically, and generally is pretty good in most sports.

I play tennis at school, and luckily this year our team is phenomenal. We are one of the top 4 teams in the state, and the only team that is better than us definitively is Cherry Creek High School, where tennis is the most dominant sport at the most dominant high school athletic program in the state (and according to Sports Illustrated, the 5th most dominant athletic program in the country). They have won 36 out of the last 38 state tennis titles, and their coach won national tennis coach of the year last year. But at a tournament earlier in the year, we beat them at 2/7 positions. Maybe this is our year.

Moving away from the ever exciting discussion of high school tennis (sarcasm), I also play golf non-competitively, am a proficient sailor, play intramural basketball (and have the honor of being on the only team ever at our school to have a teacher as a member of the team). I read books, and follow sports (collegiate basketball and football mainly) very closely.

College. What am I looking forward to? I am looking forward to, like many high school seniors, the independence that comes with moving out and living by myself. I am also looking forward to, hopefully, being surrounded by very intelligent people. Hopefully I will get into one of the highly selective colleges that I apply to; because that would mean that I truly would be surrounded by brilliant people. My high school is pretty smart by itself, but it would be that feeling of intelligence times 13,000 at an Ivy League, or equivalent, University. And I love that feeling. I also love watching and playing sports, and the resources to have great experiences at both are enormous in college, especially a D-I college, which I hope to attend. What I am not looking forward to—losing contact with my friends I guess. That's really the main thing. And not having tennis matches during the fall. Those are the two things I will really miss, but I'll get over it.

Just so everyone knows, here are my vitals for admissions (SAT scores, GPA):

• GPA: 3.5 un-weighted, 4.4 weighted
• SAT: 690 verbal, 640 math, 730 writing

And now the places to which I may apply:

• Duke University: definitely will apply, already visited
• Vanderbilt University: definitely will apply, already visited
• University of Denver: definitely will apply, already visited
• Pepperdine University: may apply, visiting next weekend
• Claremont McKenna College: may apply, visiting next weekend
• Stanford University: definitely will apply, visiting next weekend
• Boston College: may apply, visit eventually
• Cornell University: may apply, visit eventually
• Georgetown University: may apply, visit eventually
• University of Michigan: definitely will apply, visit eventually
• Northwestern University: may apply, visit eventually

Mac