I’m ethnic Vietnamese and attending a small private school in SoCal, about 120 in my grade. School doesn’t rank.
My father did his med school residency at UCLA, some relatives attended UCLA as well
Major: CS and Engineering
Academics:
10-11 GPA: 4.53 weighted, 4.12 UC
SAT Math II: 780
SAT Chem: 750
ACT: 33 composite
APs:
- Calc AB: 5
- Comp Sci: 5
- APUSH: 5
- Phys C E&M: 4
- Phys C Mech: 3
- Chem: 3
- Music Theory: 3
Sr year courses: AP Psych, AP Stats, APES, Engineering, Advanced Topics in Mathematics (post-Multivariable Calculus, took Jr year), and English
School doesn’t offer IB
Awards:
- NHD excellence award
- Eagle Scout
Extracurriculars:
- 4 year Varsity Swim, captain last year and this year, and club swimmer since 2010
- Member of California Junior Classical League (Latin club) State board
- President of my school’s Junior Classical League chapter
- Rubik’s Cube competition organizer for SoCal region
- Programming team for Robotics club
Leadership:
basically what I listed above.
- Eagle Scout
- Varsity swim captain
- President of JCL club
- State board member
- Rubik’s Cube competition organizer
Work
- Lifeguarding
- Did private tutoring (math, Scratch programming) over the summer
- possible internship for Tinder next summer
Essays: I’m pretty confident in them
I think this is most of it, but I’m just interested in how competitive I would be against other applicants for UCLA. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!