<p>I am currently a junior in Highschool, and I have no idea where I want to go to college. Nor am I really sure what I want to do in my life. However, the few places I have looked at I am not sure if I am being a realist about, so feel free to tell me if I am out of my league, or make some suggestions. This is not an affirmation topic. And I will chance back to anyone who wants me to! I have posted this before, but now it contains all info and looks more organized (how do you get bullet points and bolded headings!)</p>
<p>State: Washington
Income: $70-$90,000 (I would think it's more in the realms of 70K-mid 80s at best)
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: Male
School type: I guess a competitive public, we always send the most kids to UW Seattle
First generation college student</p>
<p>Financial info: Sister in 2nd year of college (entering 3rd) at a state school, with no financial aid or scholarships. We have not made any extravagent purchases in the last 5 years, probably longer. We have no incredible assets to speak of other than our house, and our 3 cars, none of which are nice by any means (one is quite old, mine, one is a used 2002 model, the other is a 2006-2007 model).</p>
<p>Career paths: I am interested in a path that could lead me down to the medical field, pre-med, biology, etc. Also, Im equally interested in business. </p>
<p>Degree options: B.S., M.B.A, or B.A. obviously, but if I can I want to duel-major or duel-degree, not sure if I have to be selected for this/apply, or if I can just opt to do it.</p>
<p>Schools applying to (subject to change)
UW Seattle (honors college?)
U Penn (dual degree/major)
Cornell (School of Human Ecology and Hotel Administration [in no order])
Brown PLME (If you don't think I can make it in, switch with Johns Hopkins)
CMC (specifically the 5 year program with Claremont Graduate University)
Stanford
WUSTL (duel degree/major)</p>
<p>I will do early decision to WUSTL, CMC, Cornell, or UPenn most likely. </p>
<p>Highschool Academics</p>
<p>IB Diploma Candidate</p>
<p>Freshmen: Japanese 100, PE/Life fitness, Physical Science, English, Math core 100, and Social Studies. 3.05 and 3.15 GPA respectively
*during summer I took the equivalent to freshmen Honors Math core 2, but crammed into a month)</p>
<p>Sophmore: Beginning Marketing, Math core 200, Pre-IB English, Japanese 200, Pre-IB chemistry, Pre-IB World History. 2nd semester same courses, but switch Pre-IB chemistry to Pre-IB Biology. 3.23 and 4.00 GPA
*during summer I took Intro to chemistry, Beginning Photography, and elements of pre-calculus at a local community college, earning A equivelent grades in them</p>
<p>Junior: IB Philosophy, IB History of the Americas, IB Biology I, IB English, Advanced Marketing, Japanese 300, Math core 300
<em>during fall I took intro to organic chem/biochem, Advanced Photography, and Pre-calc I</em> Earned A equivelent grades
<em>During winter I took General inorganic chem II/lecture and Pre-calc II</em> earned A equivelent grades
<em>During Spring I took General inorganic chem. III/lecture</em> earned A equivelent grades</p>
<p>Senior: IB Calculus, IB Biology II, IB Senior English, Retail Marketing, IB Senior History, IB Theory of Knowledge, Japanese 400. I predict a 4.00 for the year, but not indefinite.
Final unweighted GPA I predict a 3.7-3.91/4.00</p>
<p>I dont know how my school does unweighted, but I know they dont give us one as sophomores. Though, I am sure I will be in the top decile of my class.</p>
<p>Test scores
ACT: Math (30), Science (30), English (36), Writing (12), Reading (36). Composite: 34, I dont think Ill retake
PSAT: 230 (80 writing, 80 reading, 70 math)
SAT: 2250 (800 writing, 800 reading, 650 math). I don't think I'll retake it</p>
<p>I haven't taken any SAT IIs yet, and I'll take a while to choose which ones</p>
<p>Leadership/Extra Curriculars</p>
<p>Medical Club/HOSA
10th Grade- co-founded with a friend, Co-President
11th Grade- Co-President
12th Grade- Co-President</p>
<p>JSA
10th grade- Public Relations officer
11th Grade- Secretary
12th Grade- President</p>
<p>Key Club
10th Grade- Fundraiser
11th Grade- Fundraiser
12th Grade- President</p>
<p>DECA
12th- Vice President</p>
<p>Work Experience
10/20/07-04/23/08: Ostroms, Cashier
4/30/09-Present: Jamba Juice, cashier/juicer
09/1/09-06/11/10: Student Store, Manager (non-paid job, we sell food, clothing, etc to kids during lunch)</p>
<p>Volunteer
Key Club- expected 150 hours by senior year (50 hours each year from soph-senior)
Hospital- 1000ish hours by senior year (I am the "Senior Volunteer")</p>
<p>Awards
Freshmen: Honor Roll, Japanese Award
Sophmore: National Honor Society, Japanese National Honor Society, Key-club member of the year award, Reflections Honorary participant award (literature)
Junior: NHS, JNHS, Key-club member of the year award, 2nd place at DECA regionals, 1st place at DECA state, 1st place at DECA nationals, Reflections State award (lit)
Senior: TBA (I predict the first 3 though)</p>
<p>Other information
Reischauer Scholar
My poetry has been published by our school literary magainze, and in national anthologies of Highschool students
I attended Business Week, Advanced Business Week, and Healthcare Week, at colleges during the summer
National Hispanic Scholar (???)
National Merit qualifier (???)</p>
<p>Reccomendations: I have some choices in mind, if it makes a difference one of them went to Stanford/her family has a fountain named after her at UW, and one of them is my IB coordinator.
Essay: I have no clue what the prompt will be, so I can't say. But generally I am a strong writer.</p>
<p>Other notes: During my freshmen year my grades were a combination of not realizing the ramifications it would have on my future, as well as just a nonchalant feeling about school. I got a C+ first semester, and some B-s. And in my sophmore year I did well in all of my classes, except for Pre-IB freaking chemistry where I got a D (I took the class because I wanted to pursue IB bio, and it was required. Otherwise I could have taken IB Physics and taken a normal-class as a soph).</p>
<p>My poor chemistry grade prompted me to do something on my own about it. Part of me wanted to retake the class at my school to "change" the grade on my GPA, but that would have made me ineligable to do IB Diploma. Instead, I took classes at a community college, and did well there.</p>
<p>In addition, my original IB-diploma plan had me going core-2 math, core-3 math, and then IB Math studies. It would essentially be "IB pre-calc lite", what the normal IB-diploma kid at my school would take as a junior (IB pre-calc that is). I really wanted to get Calculus in my highschool career, so I took pre-calc at the same community college, and got tutored by my teacher and my advanced math friends. And I have officially taken a requirement test to get into IB Calc, and passed!</p>