I am a South Asian female in state. I come from a pretty prestigious public school in socal. I’m between top 5-10% among my graduating class of 850 kids (my school doesn’t rank).
Stats:
ACT Composite: 31
E: 34
M: 31
R: 29 (highest is 31 from a previous sitting)
S:28
W: 21 in new standard ( highest is a 10 from old ACT standards in a previous sitting)
retaking and aiming for 32+ in December. (or atleast 32 via superscore)
SAT Bio E/M: 660 both
SAT 2 Math 2: 770
I’m not retaking any SATs
AP Scores:
4 on AP Bio
5 on AP Lang
GPA: UW 3.83/4.0 UC/W GPA: 4.10 (my school doesn’t give weighted GPAs)
Got a rec from my pre-calc and AP bio teacher and a professor from USC
Courses:
9th grade: English H (doesn’t count as Honors Credit), Geometry, Biology, Modern World History, Art, Tennis
10th grade: English H (doesn’t count as Honors Credit), Algebra 2, Chemistry, Advanced Art, Spanish 1, Tennis
11th grade: AP Language and Comp, AP Biology, Pre - Calculus, Spanish 2, US History Honors, Tennis
12th grade: AP Literature and Comp, AP Physics C (Electricity and Magnetism 1st sem and Mechanics 2nd sem), AP Calculus AB, AP Comp Gov, Spanish 2
APs/Honors taken: 7 year-long courses (14-semester courses)
I’ve got pretty decent to strong essays
ECs
-Captain of Tennis team (4 years)
- President of Science National Honor Society
- created website for my local temple/maintain for them
-volunteered for social causes through charities (i.e volunteering of a women’s shelter, etc)
-Summer Intern at USC Keck School of Medicine - built a computer
-Self-taught myself coding languages - Work as a journalist/Media Executive Director in a youth publication
- shadowed doctors
-volunteer at the local library for two years
-Pre-med club - Young democrats club
-biology club
-hope can cure cancer club
also heard UCs are adding more instate kids this year bc they’re getting a bigger grant in doing so. so thats really helpful!!
Thanks guys!