<p>First off-I'm only a sophomore in high school, but I have a plan of what I want to do through the next few years and would like to know if it's enough to get into HPYMS, etc, and if not, any advice on what I should be doing?</p>
<p>GPA: so far 4.0 UW-I plan on maintaining that throughout high school. I work very hard for my A's....
APs-this year (10th grade) I'm taking AP world histoy and AP bio, the only two my school offers to sophs. (maintained solid A's in both as well as other honors classes)
junior year: AP US history, AP Chem, AP Calc (BC most likely), AP English Language, AP Spanish
senior year: AP Gov, AP Econ, AP Statistics, AP Literature, AP Psychology, maybee AP Human Geo or AP Enviro Sci
Total: 12 or 13</p>
<p>test scores-hopefully 4's or 5's on all ap exams...
ACT-took it last year and got a 33, aiming higher though, hopefully a 35/36
SAT-aiming for above 2350, it's gonna take quite a bit of work though...
PSAT-got a 210 this year, next year hopefully I'll qualify for NMSF</p>
<p>EC's (kinda weakk :/):
band-will be member for all four years, my teacher already told me I'm gonna be a section leader senior year (during marching band season, we practice 20+ hours a week, so this is a big extracurric for me)
-i'm first chair this year, and might be again junior or senior year.
-trying out for my state all-northern and all-state honor bands (made it in this year, and will most likely make it in again next year)</p>
<p>piano-began playing at the age of 5, take guild regularly, have guild high school diploma in social music</p>
<p>DECA (my main EC :D)-basically this hugeee business club thing. last year as a freshman i won 1st at norcal, 2nd at state, and qualified for internationals where i placed in the top 20%. I'm sure with more experience and preparation/studying, i'll be able to get top 10 at internationals someday! also, the BIG thing-I'm running to be a state officer for CA DECA-meaning I'll be in charge of the entire STATE (ooh exciting :P) I'm pretty sure I'll get the position because my competition is a bit weak and the interviewers already hinted strongly that I would get the position. this year I am running for the position of VP of chapter development, and next year I either plan on running for norcal VP or state president.
(also my teacher already told me that I will be president of our school DECA club junior and senior year)</p>
<p>UNICEF club-member, hope to get officer position junior or senior year</p>
<p>Linguisitcs club-member, got the officer position for next yr, probably president senior year</p>
<p>volunteer-so far I have 50 hours, and am continuously adding to that! I mainly work at a local food kitchen, animal shelter, and hospital</p>
<p>THINGS I WANT TO DO IN THE FUTURE:
-intern somewhere one summer-maybe a summer program through a college like Stanford or UC Berkeley. I also really wanna try for an internship at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (I have connections there, so I can probably get it)</p>
<p>-take a summer trip to south africa with my best friend (who was born there) and help build a charity...I know this will take a lot of work and planning, but it's always been a dream of mine to do this, so hopefully I can! (planning to do this summer before senior year)</p>
<p>-currently working on a science research project, and I want to enter it next year into my local science fair-if I win first, I get to go to the Intel International Science Fair!! (big dreams, I know, but it's worth a try)</p>
<p>so basically if you can't tell...my main passions are music, science, and business.</p>
<p>okay so...chance me? and please let me know what I can do to improve my chances at these schools, I realize I'm lacking a bit in the EC category as I haven't yet done anything too spectacularly huge and I'm not varsity captain of 3 different sports and president of 8 clubs on campus, like half the people here seem to be... :/</p>