<p>I'm looking into the UCs, as well as top schools such as NU, UChicago, Brown, Columbia, UPenn, Princeton, and Harvard (I know the last few are all pretty much crapshoots for me haha). Safeties would be lower UCs, USC, NYU, Boston College.</p>
<p>School: Pretty good public HS in CA (about 6-7 people got into Ivies this year, many more into top privates and UCs)
Ranking: 6/750 or so
GPA: 4.0 UW .....no idea weighted, but I'll have taken 7 APs by end of Junior year and 12 by end of senior year.
AP Classes: 10-AP World Hist (5) AP Biology (5)
11-AP US Hist, AP Chem, AP Calc BC, AP English Lang, AP Spanish Lang (Hopefully 5's on all, I'm a little weary on spanish though)
12 (what I will be taking)-AP Gov/Econ, AP Statistics, AP Psychology, AP Eng Lit, AP Spanish Lit, Reg Physics
SAT: 2330 (790 CR 780 Math 760 W DAMN ESSAY!!!!) one sitting
PSAT: 239
Still need to take SAT 2's (took Bio and got a 760, taking Chem, Math 2, and Spanish this year)
Planning on taking ACT (trying for a 35-36)</p>
<p>ECS: DECA-member since frosh year, multiple 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place awards in individual and team events on regional and state level, qualified for internationals every year, elected state officer (Vice President of Northern California) for 2011-2012, honored as a CA DECA Lifetime Ambassador</p>
<p>Band-member since frosh year, 1st chair flute soph year, made it into highest band junior year, most probably going to be flute section leader for senior year, trying for 1st chair flute in highest band for senior year. Flute teacher for local middle school students since Junior year.</p>
<p>Other clubs: Member of CSF and UNICEF (helped lead and organize community service projects for both)</p>
<p>Volunteer: 50+ hours at local soup kitchen, volunteer at local hospital since sophomore year (probably will have 100+ hours), recipient of the President's Volunteer Service Award (Bronze) for work with DECA as a state officer</p>
<p>Planning a trip to either Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands OR Costa Rica this summer to volunteer for 2 weeks. Will either be working at local schools, teaching English/other subjects to young, local residents or be working on conservation of local ecosystems/environmental awareness</p>
<p>Will be interning this summer at either UC Berk or Stanford (haven't decided yet). The programs I am deciding between are paid or volunteer internships with grad school mentors in scientific research in either nanoscale engineering, medical research, or the earth sciences</p>