Chance-a-chance!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Asian Female
Extremely competitive high school in MD
School doesn't rank, probably in top 15% out of 450 people</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.45 (Not counting Freshman year, 3.6)
GPA - Weighted: 4.25 (Not counting Freshman year, 4.42)</p>

<p>Scores:
SAT I : 2180 Math: 680 CR: 780 Writing: 720 - retaking it so i think math will be over 720
SAT II Literature: 740 U.S. History: 770 Math Level 2 (IIC): 690
AP Scores : 5's – Literature, 4's - Euro History, US History, AB Calculus, Government</p>

<p>Class Schedule - taken all AP/IB classes for all 4 years, only honors/regular classes taken are ..gym, health and programming, woop. Most rigorous class schedule possible in our school.
Right now, senior schedule is AP Stat, AP BC Calculus, IB Art and Design, IB European History, IB English, IB Physics, Theory of Knowledge</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Drama Club (4 years), Lighting, Sound, Set Construction Crews (30-35 hours each week, for about 14 weeks, really doesn't leave me too much time to do anything else), Member of International Thespian Troupe #1748
2 Month Internship at the Smithsonian Museums in DC (generally only for college students, our division took 1-2 high schoolers in recent years, not per year)
Wushu (Martial Arts) - Green Belt (4 years)
Chinese School - since like kindergarten
Calligraphy and Painting (Since 4th/5th Grade)
Piano (10 years, but quit in 10th grade)</p>

<p>Leadership positions:
Chief of Lighting Crew at Drama Club, i.e. Head Honcho of Lighting Design for half of Junior/ all of Senior Year
Designed stage lighting, oversaw lights, controlled lights?
Chinese Painting Teacher (since 8th grade)</p>

<p>College Summer programs: CTY - Johns Hopkins :: Writing, Pop Culture
150+ Hours of Service Work
150+ CAS Hours</p>

<p>Sidenotes:
Applying to architecture, and my portfolio is pretty good, which I hope will make up for the bad GPA as supposedly all of the schools consider it as a pretty important part of the app. I know that one of my teachers will write me an amazing rec because I've had her for three years in art, and the other at least a good one. Freshman year was really bad for me, I had 3 c's, but now I've improved to generally 4a's/3b's.</p>

<p>Schools:
Cornell - AAP (ED), USC,UC Berkeley,WashU, Cooper Union - Architecture, Northeastern, Maryland</p>

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<p>Berkeley OOS: slight reach - reach</p>

<p>Unfortunately, your GPA is holding you back. I noticed that Berkeley is the only public, other than Maryland, on your list -- why's that? Specifically, why Berkeley? (Not saying it's not a good choice -- I think it's great that OOSers apply to Berkeley -- just wondering why they put Berkeley among their choices of privates.)</p>

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<p>Berkeley's said to have a really good architecture program on the technical side of it, so it was a plus. Also, when we were in San Francisco, we went to visit a cousin at Berkeley, and the campus + people were amazing (although it might be because we had just been at Stanford, and the palm trees and sheer dryness there were a shock to my East Coast self, while Berkeley was more tree-y) On another note, my parents don't want me applying to OOS publics since most cost almost as much as privates, and Berkeley's one of the few publics with a really stellar reputation.</p>