<p>So, I'm a QuestBridge finalist, anyone willing to chance an insecure 15-year-old Chinese-American senior in distance education?</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT (CR/M/WR): 2210 (740/760/710)
* SAT II: taking Chinese, US History, and Math II in Nov
* ACT: (two diff test dates, equally good in diff ways...)
32 E 34 R 32 M 30 S 8 W 32 C
34 E 31 R 34 M 29 S 8 W 32 C
* GPA:3.97 UW (not sure about W)
* Rank: N/A
* Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): N/A (omg)
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<p>Personal</p>
<pre><code>* Location:Colorado
* High School Type:Distance-education (and lots of school-switching)
* Ethnicity:Chinese-born American (ABC Banana, oh yeah)
* Gender:female (duh)
* maybe 1st generation? does it count if your father got a Bachelor's in China, and your mother only attended a little of college? and your sister is in college now, but she was born in China? so confusing.
* Attending distance-education school (no AP/Honors classes accepted) with as many courses as possible
* Self-studying for AP exams this may (comp gov't, us gov't, maybe chinese, english lit + comp, maybe psych, maybe human geo)
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<p>Subjective</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: thought they were pretty good. Bio: about me in general, and my goals. kinda boring, but well-presented. Sig Exp: about my 12-hour day/7-day week paid internship in China. Diversity: about me studying wushu at a UNESCO World Heritage site.
* Recs: waived my rights to see them, i feel a little weird about it now...but i think they were decent. both from teachers i had for only one semester at a public high school.
* Supplementary Material: sent additional info about my situation. I'm FIFTEEN, people, and I'm graduating this year, and I have switched schools 4 times. And my birthmother doesn't give child support, and my distance learning school doesn't offer honors/AP/IB courses.
* Summer Activities: volunteered to tutor elementary K-3 rural chinese kids in English, " to teach english to preschool kids, 84 HR/WK paid internship with New Oriental (private english tutoring service provider in China, and yes, you read that number correctly)
* Hook: not sure, maybe 1st gen? (see above) who knows...?
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<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (beware, I have never stayed at public schools long enough to get involved in clubs, so my activities are unorthodox/self-initiated!): Studied wushu and qigong in China at a UNESCO World Heritage site, Paid internship teaching SAT and TOEFL level English in China, Became fluent and literate in Mandarin Chinese while living in rural China for six months, Taught English to elementary school, then to preschool children in rural areas of China, Self-studied/took lessons in playing acoustic and electric guitar, Babysitting my younger brother, Self-studied/took lessons in graphic design using software, i.e. Photoshop CS2, CorelDRAW X4, etc., High School Intermediate Choir, Took private lessons in playing piano
* Awards: National Society of High School Scholars, National Latin Exam Level III Silver Medal, National Merit Semifinalist (as of now)
* Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I have NO idea. My essays were pretty good, and I think my independence kinda showed through my extracurricular explosion there...
* Notes: sorry to those who were rejected, congrats to those who are continuing onwards. i didn't think they would accept me, and i was literally in tears on Sept. 29th night, sobbing my brains out. wow. speechless. thank you, QB!
* Income Range: <$30,000, with 5 person household: 2 parents, me, my 4 year old brother, college sister
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<p>Senior year courses: (kind of choppy b/c of my school's reqs and finishing prev schools' reqs)</p>
<pre><code>* Environmental Science (yr)
* Precalculus (2nd sem)
* Foundations of Personal Fitness (sem)
* Spanish (yr)
* Music History (yr)
* Communications Applications (yr)
* Psychology (sem)
* World History B (2nd sem)
* Physics (yr)
* undecided...going to add as many classes as possible
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<p>College re-ranking:
1. Wellesley
2. Brown
3. UChicago
4. UPenn
5. Swarthmore
6. Wesleyan
7. Scripps
8. Trinity</p>