Objective:
SAT I : N/A
ACT (E-35 M-30 R-26 S-31): 31
SAT II: 1390
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
Weighted GPA: 4.3
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 97 out of 508
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Bio (4) Seminar (3) Lang (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Chem, AP Japanese, AP Research, Honors Physics, Honors Gov, Honors Econ, Jazz Band, Dual Enrollment English
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
National Honors Society
AP Scholar
Tri-M Music Honors Society
All West Tennessee Jazz Band 1st Alternate (Tenor Sax)
All West Tennessee Senior Red Band Chair 5 (Bb Clarinet)
All West Tennessee Junior Blue Band Chair 20 (Bb Clarinet)
TMTA Math Competition Top 10 in West Tennessee (Geometry)
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Jazz Band (Lead Tenor Sax)
Japanese Club (Secretary junior year, class officer freshman-sophomore year)
Green Team [recycling and environmental awareness]
Biology Olympiad
HOSA [Health Occupation Students of America]
College readiness courses through a local organization [REACH Memphis] designed to help talented, underrepresented students
Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service:
⁃Volunteer weekly at a hospital (patient halls, Radiation oncology, Emergency department)
⁃Started local charity collecting hats & socks for the needy
⁃food bank packaging food summer 2015
Summer Activities:
The Taft Summer School
Vanderbilt Summer Academy (Med School 101)
Shadowed ER doctor on rounds and Interventional radiologist (in the operating room) during summers before junior and senior year
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 8/10, focused on how “different” I was compared to other kids (ethnicity, goals, how unbearably tough my parents were on me), explained how I came to understand that being different was a good thing and embraced it
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: US History teacher 11th grade year, amazing rec, 9.5/10, he had great success with his students getting into QuestBridge before, and one of his students even got accepted into Yale through QuestBridge
Teacher Rec #2: Band director, 8/10 not a core teacher but he has known me for all of high school
Counselor Rec: 7/10 probably generic, she’s not a great counselor, notoriously bad in my school
Additional Rec: N/A bc QuestBridge
Interview: not yet
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: QuestBridge
Intended Major: Biology, on Pre-Med track
State (if domestic applicant): Tennessee
Country (if international applicant): America
School Type: Public School
Ethnicity: Vietnamese
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: < 20,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): QuestBridge Finalist, Jazz and classical musician, parents are both immigrants