<p>Hello! :) As the title says, I'd like to be chanced for UCLA (my top choice) , UC Berkeley (which would also be quite lovely), UCSD, UC Davis, and UCSC. </p>
<p>A little bit about me:
Grade: 12
Ethnicity: Asian-American
Gender: Female
Intended Major: International Relations (Or some variant on it, like Political Economy or International Development Studies) </p>
<p>I'd also like to minor in Russian (or another equally cool language) </p>
<p>Possible Hooks: First Generation</p>
<p>I attend an extremely small(~240 kids), but fairly competitive, public high school in a not so good part of California. We don't have APs or sports, but we are on a college campus and we take college classes in addition to our regular high school classes. </p>
<p>Because we have such a small class size, my rank (percentile wise) is not too great, which is one of my main worries. </p>
<p>I have around 30 units from college classes I've taken, not including this year. </p>
<p>GPA: 3.92 UW; 4.12 UC</p>
<p>Rank: 8/56 </p>
<p>ACT: 35 C
34 English
33 Math
36 Reading
36 Science
11 Essay
34 Combined English/Writing</p>
<p>I took Literature & US History subject tests yesterday; I hope those went well!</p>
<p>Senior Year Courseload:</p>
<p>High School Classes:
-English 12 CP
-AVID 12 Senior Seminar (all students are required to take AVID)
-Academic Decathlon
-Physical Education
-Government CP (fall)
-Economics CP (spring) </p>
<p>College Classes
-Intro to Psychology (Fall)
-Child and Adolescent Development (Fall)
-English Composition (Fall)
-Psychology Honors Program (Fall)
-Intro to Music (Spring)
-Intro to Sociology (Spring)
-English Composition: Critical Thinking (Spring) </p>
<p>Awards:
- _______ College Outstanding Student Award-Social Science </p>
<p>-______ County Academic Decathlon First Place: Music </p>
<p>-______ County Academic Decathlon First Place: Super Quiz</p>
<p>-______ County Academic Decathlon First Place: Social Science </p>
<p>-National Merit Commended Student</p>
<p>-Various school honor roll awards </p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>-Academic Decathlon:
Captain (12)
Treasurer (11)
Starter (11)</p>
<p>-Speech and Debate Club
President (12)
Treasurer (11)</p>
<p>-Service Club (focused on fighting hunger in the community)
Vice-President (12)
Secretary (11)</p>
<p>-Student Government
Director of Student Activities (12)
-In charge of planning school events, such as prom and formals. </p>
<p>-Key Club
Member (10, 11, 12)</p>
<p>Volunteer:</p>
<p>-Congressional Campaign Intern
-I interned for a congressional campaign for around 30 hours last summer. </p>
<p>-Food Bank Volunteer
-I volunteer monthly at a food bank as part of my service club!</p>
<p>-Cookie Care Package Packer
-Our club also used to pack donated cookies into care packages for the homeless, although we stopped doing it this year. </p>
<p>Work Experience:</p>
<p>-Student Poll Worker
-I don't even know if this has any significance, but I worked at the polls for Election Day! It was very interesting, and it gave me a sense of civic duty, haha. </p>
<p>Summer Programs:</p>
<p>-Stanford PreCollegiate Studies- International Relations
-I know that these programs aren't looked very fondly upon by admissions officers, seeing as they're pricy. However, I was lucky enough to receive a scholarship to attend one, and I thoroughly enjoyed my experience! It cemented my desire to major in IR (or something related). </p>
<p>Thank you so much for taking the time to read through this! :) I know this is probably an extremely busy time for everyone, but good luck to all of you who are applying! I'm sure you'll all go far :) </p>
<p>Also, if you guys have any other recommendations for other schools to look at, I'm all ears! My parents don't know too much about colleges and everything, and our school really only focuses on getting kids into CSUs and UCs, so I'd appreciate all of the help I can get! </p>
<p>Thanks again! :) </p>