<p>Colleges planned to apply for:</p>
<p>Rutgers (maybe 7-yr program?)
Penn State (see Rutgers)
UAB (see Penn State... lol)
Duke
USC (fat chance, probably won't even try)
Syracuse (legacy)
Michigan
Johns Hopkins
UPenn (mother works there)
Haverford
Cornell</p>
<p>School grading system:
92-100 A
83-91 B
74-82 C
That's all that matters. No +/-. Kind of like the college grading system.</p>
<p>GPA: ~3.76 (UW)
My school does something funky though, so it's probably around... 99.8 GPA weighted? I don't know; never understood this system.
Rank: 56/~600 (top 10%) (My school's well known... the students in my grade though are mediocre compared to the grades below mine)
SAT:
Superscore: Reading 650 Math 800 Writing 700 (1450/2150)
One sitting: Reading 620 Math 800 Writing 680 (1420/2100)
SAT II: Math I - 800 Math II - 800 Chem - 680
All Honors/APs. Including senior year, I have 8 APs. (School does not offer many APs, maybe 15-20 and that's BEFORE schedule conflicts)
AP Exams: English Lang. - 4, Chem - 4
Planned major: Biology (well, along the path of a surgeon anyway...)
Recommendations:
Teachers: One is okay, one is decent, one is very good
Guidance: Decent
Essay was on my learning of self and the background that my ancestors were raised in. I may write another essay on my love for science otherwise.</p>
<p>ECs/Outside Activities:
Marching Band (Vice President, Soloist) (all)
Tri-M Honor Society (12)
School Wind Ensemble for two years (11, 12; audition required to join) (Section leader- 12th)
All-South Jersey Symphonic Band (11, 12)
All State Band (12)
Science Olympiad (advanced to states junior year for Chemistry) (10, 11, 12)
Trying to start a Future Doctors of America-like club
DECA (Sophomore year; advanced to states) (10)
National Honor Society (12)
Student Alliance (Peer leadership program) (10, 11, 12)
Asian American Cultural Club ("Executive Committee" sophomore year, Vice President after that) (10, 11, 12)
Traveled to China in summer to begin learning Mandarin (started late) (summer before 11th)
~50 hours volunteering in Chinese school, helped kids (6-8 yrs) learn the basics of Chinese culture (11, 12)
~60 hours volunteering in Penn Medical (summer before 11th and 12th)
Took college courses over the summer (summer before 11th, for US History) (Is this okay to put on?)</p>
<p>Potential negatives:
Sophomore year was the source of the low GPA: 4 Bs, including 3 90s in English, US, and Chemistry, all AP-level. (The other was an 89 in Spanish, let's not get there) From then on though, I got straight As again in junior year (did so for freshman year too).</p>
<p>I'm Chinese, so I'm getting no ethnic boost. Plus I think my learning of my own culture is pretty late even though I wrote an essay on it.</p>
<p>Low GPA/Community Service hours? Maybe.</p>
<p>Other notes:</p>
<p>I play the alto saxophone but also played a little tenor in junior year. I plan to participate in musically-related activities in the university I go to.</p>
<p>And just for the fun of it, rate based on if I applied on both RD and ED.</p>
<p>Current Schedule:</p>
<p>AP English Lit.
AP Calc
AP Bio
AP Psychology
AP Spanish
PE
Wind Ensemble</p>