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Background

Indian Male

Upper Middle Class Family

11th Grade at Relatively Competitive Public High School in Bay Area (40/50 kids go to Berkeley from our school each yr)

Hard of Hearing(pretty bad) & Legally Blind

N/A for Ranks

GPA: UW - 3.97 W: 4.26 (should rise up, my 10-12 GPA is 4.5)

AP Tests:

AP Wold History (5)

APUSH

AP Physics C: Mechanics

AP Calculus AB

Introductory Statistics in CC (A)

Next Year : AP Lang, AP Government, AP Micro/Macro Economics, AP Comp Sci: A, AP Calculus BC

Tests:

ACT: 36 (E: 36, M: 35, R: 35, S: 36) , Essay: 9

SAT Subject: Math II (800), Physics (?)

PSAT: 1470 and then 1480 (no National Merit )

Major: Economics with Mathematical Focus

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Awards:

FBLA States : 1st in Securities&Investments, 2nd in Business Calculations, won some regional events too

Taekwondo: 1st Degree Black Belt

Bunch of Chess Awards (but pre-High School)

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ECs:

Water Polo (9, 10, 11, 12? )

JV for 2 years, Varsity for 1 (planning on Var for another)

Club Water Polo outside of school for 3 years as well

Have helped organized tournaments as fundraisers for my school/club water polo & have done occasional shifts as score keeper in outside tournaments

Club Swim (9,10,11, 12?)

Band/Music (9,10,11)

FBLA (11, 12?)

won some regional and state awards (4 in total); hope to win in Nationals this summer

officer within some individual projects that they did (Community Service and American Enterprise), both placed at states

American Enterprise Project Secretary - helped to organize a business pitch competition with 40+ attendees, prizes, speakers, sponsors, etc…

Community Service Project Secretary - helped to organize multiple fundraisers that raised over 1000 dollars and other volunteering opportunities to help wildfire victims of California

might try and get a leadership position for next year because I really do not like the way the club is run

UNICEF (9,10,11, 12?)

just volunteering but nothing more

like FBLA, applied for a leadership position because I don't like the way the club is run

Key Club (10,11)

practically just volunteering

might try and get a events organizer leadership position next year

Campaign Intern (11)

campaigned for local politician and did all sorts of clerical and campaigning work

did around 6-8 hours a week for 2-3 months

Social Service Agency Intern and/or Federal Trade Commission (11 Summer)

clerical work with some social media, public relations and marketing work as well

potential to work on some of the legal cases

Tutor (11, 12?)

tutor some high school kids in Math and Physics

2 - 3 hours per week


LOR:

Not Sure Yet, but Planning on:

Counselor that I’ve had for my Hearing Loss since Elementary School (pretty good recommendation)

History, Math or Spanish (probably Mediocre, maybe above average)

Maybe one from my Summer Internship (IDK how it’ll go)