<p>Hello. I wanted to gauge my choices and see if there any other colleges that might be a match for what I want to do. Yes, I already know that all my standardized test scores suck :)</p>
<p>SAT I: 670M, 650CR, 560W
SAT II: 690 Chemistry, 640 Math IIC
AP: Chemistry 3, Language and Composition 3
Currently Taking: Physics B, Calculus AB, Lit. and Comp.</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.8 (9-12), 3.98 (10-12)
Weighted GPA: 4.2 (9-12), 4.37 (10-12)
Unweighted Rank: 42/550 (101010 ;))
YAY FOR UPWARD TREND :)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
4 years of Water Polo (Varsity) 26 hours a week
-Captain in 2004, 2005
-Bunch of random team awards like Most Improved and Most Inspirational</p>
<p>4 years of Swimming (Varsity)
-Won in League Finals, but nothing significant really</p>
<p>4 years of Club Water Polo (18 and U) 20 hours a week
-During Winter and Summer Offseasons</p>
<p>4 years of Junior State of America, 5 hours a week
-Historian: Our presentation won 2nd place for the "Chapter of the Year" award at Spring State :)
-Head of Fundraising Committee</p>
<p>4 years of Orchestra/Honors Orchestra, 10 hours a week
-Section Leader for Cellos
-Outstanding Freshman Musician Award
-Played at Carnegie Hall for the New York Orchestra Festival (Silver Award)
-Played in the pit orchestra of the annual school musical "Annie Get Your Gun" in 2004</p>
<p>6 years of Cello
-Passed a CM test of some level I do not remember :p
-Yay! for profeciency in violin, viola, cello, and string bass and ability to read treble, alto, tenor, and bass clef :)</p>
<p>2 years of volunteering at local summer orchestra (4 hours a day for 5 weeks)
-Section Coach for both Cellos and String Basses</p>
<p>-Attended National Youth Leadership Conference in Washington D.C., Spring 2006
-Elected one of the most inspirational leaders by faculty adviser
-RUTEBEGA! Sorry, this is random inside joke.</p>
<p>1 Year of Brighter Side Singers!, 30 hours a week
-School's show choir that goes around to perform for the community. To show how much work this is, in one school week we had twelve 45-minute performances. Now picture yourself smiling non-stop for 45 minutes. Now multiply that by 12. Now picture sweaty hands and playing a slow, romatic cello solo with the chorus. It's tough stuff.</p>
<p>-I play Ali Hakim in our annual musical "Oklahoma!" this year! Never thought I could get a lead in a musical because before this year I had no acting, singing, or dancing abilities. And nowadays I still don't have any but man I have this charm on stage :p</p>
<p>1 year of Advanced Journalism, 15 hours a week
-School Newspaper! I've probably racked up the most points of anyone on staff at this point in the year. I'm up by 4 issues after doing 5 issues (each issue is 100 points). I love taking photographs.</p>
<p>2 years of Los Angeles Shooters
-A local photography club that goes out and takes pictures around the area and we critique each other's works and help each other get better</p>
<p>3 years of Ping Pong Club
-Head of Public Relations (11th)
-Vice President (12th)
-Yes, I play.</p>
<p>3 years of volunteer water polo time keeping and statting (9-11th grade)
-Shot clock, game clock, unofficial and official stats, I do it all! Both away and home games :p Yeayuh.</p>
<p>Filmed two product reviews for the online reseller Buy.com to kick off their "BuyTV" (Olympus Zuiko 50mm Macro and Logitech MX500 Mouse) @ <a href="http://www.buy.com/buytv%5B/url%5D">www.buy.com/buytv</a></p>
<p>3 years of Quantum Physics
8 years of Gifted and Talented Education
3 years of National Honor Society
3 years of California Scholarship Federation</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure I forgot some stuff, but I need to get going on homework so..</p>
<p>I'm Asian and I'm from California.<br>
Essays are good.
I've never seen the recommendations but let us assume that they are omfg***zbbqsuperamazing. </p>
<p>Here are my own rankings:</p>
<p>DUDE, YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN APPLY HERE BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO CHANCE:
-Columbia
-Cornell
-Northwestern</p>
<p>Super Humongous REACH:
-NYU (Stern)
-U.C. Berkeley
-Emory (I applied for both the Scholars and Goizueta Scholars program too)</p>
<p>REACH:
-UCLA
-NYU (College)
-USC (Marshall Business)</p>
<p>Sort of MATCH:
-University of the Pacific (Either accelerated MBA or Pre-Pharm)
-U.C. San Diego</p>
<p>Match:
-U.C. Irvine</p>
<p>Right now, I'm really hoping for NYU Stern, but that's probably out of my range, huh? Oh well.. I'm sort of going for NYU College in my mind.</p>
<p>I really like USC's opportunities (Business admin. major+minor in Biotech), but I really want to get out of Southern California and explore another area of the country, so... I dunno.</p>
<p>I'm sort of extracurricularly-biased which will probably hurt my chances at most of these schools, but hey, that's who I am so at least I've lived and experienced in high school and I don't regret it at all :) Now... to find a school that has the same goals as I do. </p>
<p>So any opinions/tips/rankings? Thanks in advance.</p>