<p>HEY! So here's the 411:</p>
<p>My school:
Entering senior year at a competitive public high school in southern California.
No ranking because when they had the ranking system, certain paranoid parents would sabatoge other top-ranking student's files. =O
Science/math focus
68% Asian, 29% white, 3% Other.
Local average income in this city is $120,000.
One of the richest zip codes in the nation.</p>
<p>Me:
Asian Female
Parents make <$40,000
First-generation college student, low-income
I go to this high school only because my aunt lives here and she lets me use her address. </p>
<p>STATS:
SATi: 2320 (CR:720, M:800, W:800)
SATii: World History: 780, US History: 800, Physics: 740
GPA: UW: 3.76, W: 4.02
APs:English(4), Physics(4), US History(5)</p>
<p>COURSES&GRADES:</p>
<p>Summer
Beginning Art A/A</p>
<p>FRESHMAN YEAR
Biology A/B
Dance A/A
Drawing and Painting A/A
English Honors B/B
Geometry Honors A/B
French 1 A/A
Track( Varsity Girls Shotput) A</p>
<p>Summer
Health/Word Processing A/A</p>
<p>SOPHOMORE YEAR
Architecture B
Chemistry A/B
French 2 A/B
English Honors B/A
Dance A/A
Algebra Honors/Algebra C/A
World History A/A</p>
<p>JUNIOR YEAR
AP Physics B A/A
AP English A/A
US History Honors A/A
Pre Calc (regular) A/A
Advanced Drawing and Painting A/A
French 3 A/A</p>
<p>SENIOR YEAR (projected)
AP English
AP Gov/Econ
AP Calc AB(going to request BC when i see my counselor)
AP French
ASB ( 22 kids out of the entire school participate in student government; this is going to take A LOT of time)</p>
<p>EXTRA-CURRICULARS/LEADERSHIP POSITIONS:
Art For Youth: Founder, President (11,12)
Amnesty International:(9,10,11,12) Historian(10), Secretary(11), President!(12)
Key Club: (10,11,12) Publicity(11), Secretary(12)
Student Government: Social Chairperson(10), Publicity(12)
Editor-in-Chief of school's literary and art magazine(11,12)
teengroov Hip Hop Dance Company:(10,11,12) </p>
<p>ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
-hosted the first-ever student-run art gallery on campus, as in, i initiated the project on my own with a few students. three exhibitions over the year(2 for my art club, 1 for amnesty)
-organized the annual Jamnesty concert at school to raise human rights awareness.
- popularized the school's literary and art magazine. previously, it would be distributed only once a year at the VERY end of the school year. when i took charge, i decided that it should come out tri-annually. yippeee.
-hours i dance each week: 5-6~. it's a very important part of me.
-hours i paint/draw/spend doing art-related things each each: 10+.</p>
<p>AWARDS:
Scholastic Art& Writing Gold Award (11)
School reflections contest-art(11)
Won national and regional awards for my dance crew</p>
<p>WORK:
I started my own business..sort of. Haha. I started making my own silkscreened shirts since junior year. I usually make $300~/monthly.</p>
<p>I worked for my parents during the summers at their small business. I would spend 20+ hours at their workspace.</p>
<p>In junior year, I was employed by Subway. I work weekend still about 14+ hours. Woot.</p>
<p>CONCLUSION:
I'll definitely use my low-income, first-gen student status to gain more notice from college admins, right? Practically every schoolmate's parents have gone to college, but mine hasn't. Do you think having this status will truly separate me from the herds of other classmates applying to the same schools as I am?</p>
<p>Prospective colleges:
Brown (maybe ED; I'll let the college admins know that I really want to go here because I love it and also because it would be possible for me to take cross-classes at the art school RISD)
Tufts
Swarthmore
Amherst
Yale
Colgate
UVA
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Boston College
Northwestern
UCLA/UC Berkeley (California resident!)</p>
<p>Prospective majors: Still confused about this. These are what I've narrowed down to: English, Liberal Arts, History, Economics, Visual Arts.</p>
<p>Chance me please=)</p>