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<p>Asian (female; Chinese/Vietnamese mix). Middle-class.
Rank: top 10%
Background: I reside in Michigan, and attend a magnet school (the first in the nation to have an economicology program with IB).
Sibling(s): 1, a sister who currently attends University of Michigan
Parents:
-Mother: high school diploma (from China)
-Father: high school diploma at 23, two years of college at Michigan Tech., but dropped out (escaped from Vietnam during the War--might add in college essay)</p>

<p>Possible Majors: political science, public policy, international relations, psychology, history
Possible Minors: history, sociology, economics</p>

<p>Standardized test scores:
ACT: 29 (will retake)
SAT: 1800 (first time, will DEFINITELY retake)
SAT II: US History, World History, Math I--results pending (I'm taking more SAT II's this fall--Math II, Lit, and perhaps chemistry)
AP's Junior year: AP US History, AP Lit, AP Macro Econ, AP US Gov--results pending, but I'm guessing all 4's or 5's
AP's (will take) Senior year: AP World History, AP Micro Econ, AP Psych, AP Comp Gov, AP Calc AB, AP Physics B, AP Lang, AP French</p>

<p>Trilingual:
-Chinese (Cantonese...I know, it's not going to get me anywhere when the AP Chinese and SAT II Chinese tests are done in Mandarin. I can comprehend Mandarin, but it takes awhile to relay it.)
-Chinese dialect
-comprehension of Vietnamese ( a bit)
-English</p>

<p>Vegetarian: 5 years (I'm not sure that it'll help)</p>

<p>GPA:
Unweighted: 3.88 (I got a few B's this year, which knocked me out of the Valedictorian contention and Salutatorian...I'm guessing that I'll graduate with a 3.92)
Weighted: 4.92</p>

<p>EC's:
Legislative Debate/Parliamentary Debate: 4 years (co-captain)
-consecutively broke to finals/semi-finals at state every year
-compete on national circuit
Student Congress: 2 years
-chairwoman of committee/press corps
Model UN: 1 year (new for our school)
Lincoln-Douglas: 1 year (new league for state of Michigan, will start in fall)
Policy Debate: 1 year (wasn't my thing)
Forensics: 4 years
-co-captain senior year
-fresh.-poetry; soph/jr/sr-extemp/impromptu
-consistently did well at invites/placed
-state semi-finalists (extemp)
E-Club/Environmental Club: 2 years (only member from junior class)
Student Council: 1 year
-treasurer
-prom/spirit week committee--"green prom" (links with E-Club)
NJHS: 3 years
NHS: 3 years
-vice-president (senior year)
-hoping to reform NHS next year, seeing as officers were a bit of a "let down" this year, OR will start up Key Club (of course, as President)
Interned at a law firm for 2 trimesters (possibility of interning at another firm in the fall)
-worked mostly on med. mal cases, tested the waters with corporate and environmental
-got a better understanding of the community, and how the firm, along with other organizations/pro-bono lawyers fit into the picture.
-outside experiences: YWCA and LAC
-While interning at the firm, I was offered to other internships (1) being the second firm (2) LAC--Legal Assistance Center w/ Heartside Ministries.
Volunteered:
-over 100 hours
-not included in 100 hours, but campaigned for many political candidates over the years (not limited to Obama)</p>

<p>Chance me. Please?
I know my test scores aren't up to par, but I'm studying my butt off over the summer to retake both the ACT, SAT, and more SAT II's in the fall.</p>

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<p>Your gpa and ecs are strong, but you definitely need to raise your scores. Also, where your APs end up will also dictate how your gpa falls in comparison… if you end with all As but you don’t pass any of your APs, it doesn’t really make sense (not that that would happen to you, but it’s something adcoms understand about grade inflation/deflation in high schools).</p>

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<p>welles10–thank you for chancing me. The only thing I would worry about is my grade dispute with AP US Gov that’s still pending. I’ll admit, I was a bit lazy doing the work (since it was an online class), but there’s no way I deserved a C+. Yes, there, I said it. Every student signed an agreement with the online instructor agreeing to certain terms before taking the course, but somehow she lost sight of this, and completely changed the maximum amount of points you could earn that semester…an extra 1000 points. No one in the class found out about it until the class ended. No one aced the class. I’m confident I scored a 5 on the AP test.</p>

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<p>CMK – a contrasting grade vs. AP score will cancel out per se, at least in the eyes of the adcom at Wellesley. Wellesley gives attention to each app and looks at the whole picture; they will notice a discrepancy like that. Since the AP exam is a standardized test that is given around the world, an adcom would consider the AP score to be more indicative of your knowledge than a grade from your class, especially an online class. Also, if you are really concerned about this, depending on what score you get on the AP exam, you could speak a bit about this in the optional essay on the CommonApp. </p>

<p>Fyi, if you take college level courses that are given on-line, Wellesley will not give you credit for them.</p>