A brief bio

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At Moharimet Elementary school, I participated in intramural track and field and T-ball. I also took piano, gymnastics, and art lessons, and was a member of the Brownie and Junior Girl Scout troops.

At Oyster River Middle School, which I attended from fifth through eighth grades, I participated in cross country and spring track all four years, with three years in each on the "A-team" of scoring runners, and as the captain of both teams in my eighth grade year. I was also a four-year member of the band as an alto saxophonist. I participated in the Johns Hopkins Talent Search each of the four years, and scored high enough on the SAT to be able to take a course at the University of New Hampshire, which I took in the fall of eighth grade. The same year I also placed 11th in New Hampshire and Vermont in the National French Exam, and was the assistant editor of the yearbook.

I attended Phillips Exeter Academy for my high school years. I was a four-year member of the cross country team, earning All-New England honors for placing in the top 15 prep school runners in New England in 10th and 12th grades. I was a member of the Hall of Fame for running sub-19:00 on the 3-mile cross country course. I ran spring track three of the four years, and winter track once. In my senior year I captained all three teams. I was also a four-year member of the Concert Band on the tenor and baritone saxophones, a tour guide, a temporary member of the math club and the Pen Pals volunteer organization, and I was a dedicated peer math tutor throughout my high school years. I spent the second half of my junior year at the Mountain School of Milton Academy in Vershire, VT, and the following summer I went to Osaka, Japan for a five-week homestay as the New Hampshire representative in a joint Japan-U.S. Senate program and Youth For Understanding. In the spring of my senior year I co-taught a sophomore geometry/trigonometry class with the chair of the math department, and ran the Boston Marathon in qualifying time.

I received prizes in Intermediate Mathematics and Introductory French in ninth grade; prizes in Calculus and Intermediate French in tenth grade; the Renssalaer Medal for Mathematics and Science in eleventh grade; and prizes in music and Advanced French, the award for Best Essay on a Contemporary Political Issue in history, and first prize in the English competition, in my senior year. I was also a National Merit Scholar, an AP Scholar with Distinction, and an honorable mention in the Rotary Most Valuable Student competition. I earned Highest Honors for all 12 trimesters, which requires an average of 10.0 (A-) or above, and was an early inductee into the Exeter chapter of the Cum Laude society for being in the top 5% of my class. At graduation I was awarded a Cox Medal for ranking in the top five of my graduating class of 324, and the Sadler Cup for excellence in scholarship, athletics, leadership, and character, in addition to graduating Cum Laude. I applied to and was accepted at Amherst, Wellesley, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Williams, and Harvard, and chose to attend Williams College.

At Williams I was a calculus peer tutor in my freshman fall, and I have been a TA for Calculus I, multivariable calculus, and Applied Real Analysis. I have been on the Dean's List for the first three semesters, and I intend to double-major in mathematics and psychology. I was appointed to the Student Math and Stat Advisory Board, which is composed of 12 upperclass students who have dinner with prospective math and stat professors, and plan math events such as Pi Day celebrations. My freshman dorm selected me as their representative to Frosh Council, where I was subsequently elected Council Secretary. I have earned varsity letters for two seasons on the women's cross country team, which won the 2004 national championship. I maintain the cross country Web site, for which I received a Coach's Award in my freshman year. I was also the coxswain for the women's novice crew team in the winter and spring seasons of my freshman year, and I placed fifth in the coxswain division of the International Indoor Rowing Championship at CRASH-B.