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.