<p>Hey everyone! I'm kind of going into premature panic mode here so I would be eternally grateful to the kind souls who offer me some feedback.</p>
<p>Personal Stats:
- Ethnicity: Asian (Indian) female
- State: South Carolina
- High School: Relatively competitive; sends a lot of grads to top schools
- IB Diploma Candidate
- 4.0 GPA = 3.962/SC UGP GPA: 5.063
- Rank: 11 out of 179 (top 6% I think?)</p>
<p>Test Scores
- Highest SAT: M = 690, CR = 740, W = 800 (superscore = 2230, but scores are weirdly distributed: will that hurt me?)
- SAT II's: Planning to take Lit and Bio M in October, but will probably add on Math II
- APs: So far, World History 5, CompSci A 4, Stats 4, US History 5, Psych 5, BC Calc 3 (ouch), and English Lit 4.
- IBs: So far, French SL 6 and Psych SL 6.</p>
<p>Courses
- Senior year APs = Bio, Chem, and Physics (the science trinity, woohoo.) Will have taken 10 APs by the end of senior year
- Senior year IBs = Biology HL, Chem HL, English HL, Math Studies SL. Will have taken 6 IBs by the end of senior year.</p>
<p>Awards/Honors
-National Honor Society/Interact Club Member for two years (President for one year)
-AP Scholar with Distinction
- National French Contest National Qualifier (6th)
- Multiple Placings at Clemson Declamation (basically like a state international poetry recitation contest. Not very well known, but I've placed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in French, Japanese, and Chinese multiple times and I go every year. How important are regional contests like these?)
- National Merit Scholarship Recognition (I got 212, didn't get commended or become a finalist)
- Regional Science and Engineering Fair Participant/Winner (2nd Place: Biological Sciences)</p>
<p>Extra-Curriculars
-- I have been training in South Indian Classical (Carnatic) music for 11 years. I participated in the International Carnatic Music Festival in 2002, I perrformed at the TANA (Telugu Association of North America) convention in 2009, and I have performed at various concerts and functions throughout my singing career. *This probably means absolutely nothing to most of you, but in the Indian community, it's a pretty big achievement. Do you think that will count for something in the admissions process?
-- Varsity Tennis Team for three years, played Number 2 doubles. (Couldn't participate senior year due to a knee injury)
-- National Honor Society/Interact Club Member, inducted in 2008. Elected President in 2009.
-- National Forensic League (3 years): Nothing too special, Order of Distinction
-- Academic Team member
-- Tiger Ambassador (about 30 students chosen as volunteers to represent the school during orientations and such)</p>
<p>Not sure what you call these...
- Governors School for Science and Mathematics Summer Program for Research Interns at Clemson University: a six-week research program that I was selected for last summer; I did some genetic research on bitter melon with a mentor professor and published a poster on my findings.
-- LeadAmerica Medicine and Healthcare Conference (Summer '08)
-- South Carolina Youth in Government (I've been to about 6 conferences)</p>
<p>Volunteer Activities
-- National Honor Society/Interact-sponsored activities
-- Volunteer at Solaris Hospice Center
-- Volunteer at Doctors Care Clinic (mostly just administrative work)</p>
<p>Miscellaneous
-- Though I was born in the United States, my first language was Telugu and I recently enlisted the help of my parents in learning how to read and write in Telugu. I am also studying Mandarin Chinese.
-- I'm really active in Indian cultural activities like choreographing Indian dances for many functions and events and singing Indian classical music.</p>
<p>Schools I'm applying to
-Emory (1st choice, leaning towards ED)
-Washington University at St. Louis
-Duke
-Case-Western
-JHU
-Clemson University
-University of South Carolina Honors College
-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>