~3.7 GPA, 2350+ SAT: JHU (ED), Georgetown, Emory, UCs

Demographics: Asian male, CA, applying from large competitive public school, went to small international private school

Academics

  • SAT: 2360 (CR: 800, M: 780, W: 780, E: 12), PSAT: 224
  • ACT: 35
  • GPA: UW: 3.75, W: 4.2
  • AP: Biology (4), Physics 1 (4), Chinese (5), Environmental Science (5), U.S. History (5), Psychology (5), English Language (5), World History (5), Calculus AB (5)
  • SAT 2: Math 2 (800), Biology E (730), Literature (730/pending retake score)
  • Senior Schedule: English, AP Chem, APCS, AP Calc BC, AP US Gov, debate/volleyball

ECs:

Speech and Debate: 4 years, debate captain (G12)

Volleyball: 4 years, frosh captain (G9), 3 year varsity, varsity captain (G11)

Quiz Bowl: 4 years (school is nationally ranked)

Eagle Scout

Navajo Missions Trip: 2 years,

Band: Euphonium, all-conference

We the People Constitution Team

Student Government: Executive Board Treasurer (G11)

COSMOS (California State Summer School for Math and Science): researched nematode morphology and gene expression using staining, culturing, and analyzing with RNA sequencing, BLAST, R

Academia Sinica: Internship at Taiwanese national lab, blood cancer research (detecting circulating tumor cells with microfluidic chips)

Piano (Level 10)

Mock Trial

Model UN

Tutoring (HS transition program for 8th graders, and speech and debate coaching for middle schoolers)

Major: Environmental Science//Public Health/Political Science (or some mixture of the three)
Schools: JHU, Georgetown, Emory, Rice, Columbia, Princeton, Occidental, USC, WUSTL, UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB

Notes: Moved to international school for G10 and G11 (hence a large GPA drop in G10.) Essays are feeling great though, so hopefully that helps.

Your GPA is the problem!

JHU, Georgetown, Emory, Rice, Columbia, Princeton, Occidental, USC, WUSTL, UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB are all reaches/low reaches except for Occidental and UCSD (high-match/match)


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3.7 gpa is bad
your gpa is fine. your sat proves that you are competent in class, and having a low A will not break anything. 3.6+ is good. don’t fret my friend

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