<p>Gender: M
Race: Japanese
Location: New York
College Class Year: 2013
High School: Public
High School Type: sends many grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes
Family Income: <$40,000 a year</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>GPA - Unweighted: 4.0
GPA - Weighted: 4.5 (4.3 sophomore year and 4.7 jr year)
Class Rank: school doesn't rank, but def top 1%
Class Size: ~800</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT I Composite: 2110
SAT I Math: 770
SAT I Critical Reading: 600
SAT I Writing: 740</p>
<p>SAT II Japanese with Listening: 780
(i will take the math ii and bio tests in june, and will most likely retake SAT I to boost CR, also ACT next week.) </p>
<p>APs:
Taken: Music Theory, Chemistry
Will take: English Language, English Lit, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Statistics, Biology, Env Sci, Gov, MacroEcon, Japanese, US History, Spanish (total 14)</p>
<p>IBs:
Will take: Music HL, Spanish A2 HL</p>
<p>AMC 12: 87.5</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>School Orchestra (4 years) ~Co-Concertmaster
Intensive University Summer Music Program (4 years)
Youth Orchestras (3 yrs) ~principal violin
String Quartets (2 yrs) ~get paid for gigs </p>
<p>Engineering Club (2 yrs) ~founder and Co-President
Key Club (3 yrs) ~ active member/community service
Math Tutor (2 yrs) ~peer tutor for AP/honors math classes at school
Violin Tutor/Instrutor (2 yrs) ~paid
Library Volunteer (1yr) ~ approx 40 hrs
Japanese School (9 yrs)
Latin Dancing (3 yrs)</p>
<p>Honors and Awards:
Laureate of a regional music competition
School Music award for excellence in Chamber Music
Mayoral Award for significant academic and music achievement
most likely AP Scholar w/ distinction</p>
<p>Colleges I will most likely apply: (in order of preference)</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Caltech
Brown
U Penn
Northwestern
Columbia
Cornell
NYU
Duke
U of Chicago
UC Berkeley
UC LA</p>
<p>I know I'm a reach for most of these school because of lack of awards and my low scores, but I'm going to retake and hopefully improve. Also, do u think my EC's are good enough? Thanks!</p>