<p>Hi fellow CCers! Thank you for taking your time to read my thread. Here are my stats:
{Sorry this is not a resume. Couldn't quite format my resume to fit in here..}</p>
<p>Asian-American
Male</p>
<p>GPA - UW: 3.69, W: ?(hasn't been released yet, but above 4.0 in my calculations)
Class Rank - ? (Will be released in a week or two)</p>
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Freshman GPA - 3.7855
Sophomore GPA - 3.286
Junior GPA - 4.0</uw></p>
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*2 APs Sophomore year - AP Calc BC, AP World History
*2 APs and 1 College course Junior year - AP Bio, AP USH, Adv. Calculus (Calculus 101)
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<p>Senior year:
AP Literature
AP Statistics
AP Government & Politics
AP Micro & Macro Economics
AP Physics B
French
Wind Ensemble (Band)</p>
<p>SAT: 2240 (R-730, M-760, W-750) ----> I am going to retake this in October. The 2240 was my first try last January with minimum prep. I average 2300~2350 at least these days.</p>
<p>SAT II:
*US History - 760
*Biology - 790</p>
<p>AP:
*World H. - 4
*US H. - 5
*Bio - 5
*Calc. BC - 5</p>
<p>ECs:
*Mock Trial (10~) - member
*Debate Club (10~) - member(10-11), club president (11~)
*Knowledge Bowl (09~11) - member (09-10), Treasurer (10~11) -> not sure if I'm going to include this..
*Math Club (09~10) - Not sure if I'm writing this..
*JV Tennis (09~) - stuck in JV yet again...
*JV Tracks & Fields (10~) - 100m Sprint</p>
<p>Volunteer/internship:
*Co-Founder & president of a non-profit organization. Not going to go in detail, but it is rather successful and the beneficiaries love it. Planning on getting an additional letter of rec from one of them. (10~)
*Habitat For Humanity (10~) Store/construction site volunteer
*Korean School (09~11) TA
*WACAP (11~) volunteer
{Total of 300+(likely 400+) hours of volunteer}
*Math tutor (as a way to get some income:D)
*Academic coach (teach math, English and Social Studies during tutorials)</p>
<p>Awards (nothing here really...):
*National Merit Scholar -Commended (got 215 in PSAT)
*Presidential Award ((for community service hours..))
*XX Guard Award (took out name for privacy purposes. Given to students w/ 100+ hours Community service hours)
*AP Scholar w/ honor
*KSEA Math Olympiad (? Gotta recheck the name...) Silver Award
*Blaine Math Competition 2nd place</p>
<p>Intended Major:
*International Relations
*History</p>
<p>Letter of Rec:
*Will be getting a stellar one from my math teacher, who's been my math teacher my freshman year (when I skipped ahead 2 years of math with my insane Asian-ness) and who had me again in my Junior year. She knows well of my past and she will testify for my great improvements and my competence.
*English Teacher will also testify for my academic competence and my steady improvements.</p>
<p>Additional Info:
*I am trilingual. Korean is my first language, English my second and French my third.
*I am a dual citizen. And this gets complicated here: I spent well over half my life in Korea (south of course). Born in NY originally, but moved into Korea when I was 6 and went to middle school there. Barely ever spoke English there. Then moved into WA for high school. Got just lucky enough to pass ESL test, but wasn't good enough at English to follow up at school.
*Here's my grade part as mentioned before. Early on, I lagged behind mainly due to English issues. I was slow to translate what others said or wrote into comprehensible units... And both socially and academically I caved in my late freshman~sophomore year. Notable is the reality that one quarter of the student body at our school is Asian, and more than half of those Asians are ESL. I had real trouble since I kept on being labeled with them, but could not join the other groups beyond ESL for some while -which I hated as I then realized I was missing out a huge part of high school life. And so on... This is me ranting about my silly past. But the real answer is in my common app essay. So I'll just skip over to that section...</p>
<p>Essay:
*Decent topic, great potentials to become stellar. Had it proofread by old friends I made back in those days I lived in NY and NJ, who are also spectacular writers, and graduates/undergraduates of the Ivies. They liked it a lot, saying that only if I could add more personal voice and be more concise, the essay could serve as the game changer for me.
*The essay is about the change I went through in high school. You may have all noticed that it was my Sophomore grade that was a total bummer, not the freshman one. There are lots of stories untold behind the transcript, and I am implying most of such reasons within my essay. No worries, I made sure my essay doesn't take the whining voice. (Actually, my essay is basically about growth -coming of maturity- to sum everything up.)</p>
<p>*Fun fact: I do not have a middle school diploma. Left school a month before graduation... Yup, I'm elementary graduate at most as of now:D</p>
<p>College of Choice:
*Early Decision
Middlebury College (reach/dream?)</p>
<p>*Regular Decision
Brown U. (Reach/Dream?)
Haverford College (Reach)
Johns Hopkins U. (Reach)
Georgetown U. (Reach)
Claremont McKenna (Reach)
Davidson College (Match-Reach?)</p>
<p>Macalester U. (Match)
Colby College (Match)
U. of St. Andrews (Match)
Tufts U. (Match-Reach?)</p>
<p>Whitman College (Safety)
U. of Washington (Safety)</p>
<p>I would love to know if I stand a good chance at Middlebury ED, along with my chances at other RD schools. I labeled them as best I could, but please tell me if I'm right, and why if so/if not. Thanks again for showing interest!</p>
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