<p>Colleges
[Engineering]
USC, Northwestern, NYU, Rice, UC San Diego, UC Irvine
[Arts and Sciences - Chemistry]
UCLA, UC Berkeley, Pepperdine, Cornell
[Undecided]
Harvey Mudd College
and chances for scholarships @ USC (reallly want/need Trustee or Presidential!!)</p>
<p>Gender: F [does it help for Engineering?]
Ethnicity: Chinese
Location: Southern California
College Class Year: 2013
Applied for financial aid: Yes
school does not rank, public school
size: approx. 900</p>
<p>**GPA/Scores<a href="9th-11th%20grade">/b</a>
-Unweighted GPA:
3.82</p>
<p>-Weighted GPA:
4.27 (self calculated using 1 pt for each honor & AP, school does not do weighted GPA.)</p>
<p>-UC GPA:
4.12</p>
<p>-SAT/ACT scores:
SAT - C/R 660, Math 750, W 690, Composite 2100
ACT - Eng 36, Math 36, Reading 32, Science 33, Composite 34
SAT II Math - 800
SAT II Chemistry - 730
SAT II Literature - 680</p>
<p>-AP scores:
Calculus BC - 5
Calculus AB subscore - 5
Chemistry - 5
English Language - 4</p>
<p>-APs/Honors:
Math - Algebra II Honors, Pre-calculus/Calculus A Honors, AP Calculus BC, Calculus D Honors (taking next semester)
Science - Chemistry Honors, AP Chemistry, AP Physics B (currently taking)
English - English 10 Honors, AP English Language, AP English Literature (currently taking)
Social science - US History Honors, AP Comparative Government/Politics (curently taking)</p>
<p>ECs
Orchestra - section leader (string bass), officer (librarian), grade 9-12
Student Government - Senior Class Girls Relations, grade 12
Volunteer at hospital - discharge patients, file papers, 3 hrs every other wk, grade 9-12
Church worship team - I play the violin at my church accompanying the piano for hymnal worship service, grade 8-12
Christian club at school - grade 9-12
Science Olympiad - grade 11-12
Auxiliary guard - dance and spin flags/weapons with marching band, grade 9-10
Music Mentors - we go to middle schools and help students improve on their musicianship, grade 12</p>
<p>Recs
Noo idea, none let me see, but pretty sure were good. Spanish & calculus teacher wrote for me, and my "counselor recs" were written by vice principal</p>
<p>Essays
I thought my essay was really good, talked about my struggle as a section leader junior year because of opposition (ppl didn't think I deserved to be leader, upperclassmen didn't want to listen to me, etc.) but showed how I dealt with it and how I came out stronger as a leader. My supplements were kind of bleh, did most of them in a day...</p>
<p>Honors/awards
AP Scholar
PSAT Commended Student
National Honor Society [it didn't become an extracurricular thing at my school until this year... I don't know it's weird, but I put this as an honor/award instead of extracurricular]</p>
<p>I only applied to some schools for Engineering b/c I'm still not sure what I want to do yet, but obviously switching from Engineering to something like Chemistry would be easier than the other way around. I really really want to go to USC or Northwestern, but I think USC would give more merit money. I got all A's in science courses, A's in Calculus courses (but B's in Alg II/Pre-calc :( weird), if that helps for Engineering.</p>