Reach Schools:
Yale
Harvard
Brown (ED)
Cornell
Pomona College
Target Schools:
UCLA
UC Berkeley
Safety Schools:
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
Intended Major: International Relations
Grade: 12th Grader
School: great high school (Asian majority)
Location: Los Angeles
Ethnicity: Asian Male
Background: Middle Income, no special circumstances
Unweighted GPA: 3.96
Weighted GPA: 4.3
ACT:
Composite: 34
English: 33
Math: 36
Reading: 35
Science: 31
Rank: no ranking or percentile
All Classes are A’s unless otherwise indicated:
Summer before 9th Grade:
Introduction to Journalism
Introduction to Java Programming
9th Grade:
English 9
Modern World History
French 1
Algebra 2 Honors (B+ second sem)
Journalism Newspaper
Phys Ed 9
Summer before 10th Grade:
Biology
10th Grade:
English 10 Honors
PreCalculus Honors (B 1st sem)
Chemistry Honors
French 2
AP Computer Science (Score: 4)
Advanced Show Choir
Phys Ed 10
1th Grade:
English 11
AP Calculus BC (Score: 4)
AP French Language (skipped French 3 course; Score: 5)
US History Honors
Advanced Show Choir
Badminton
12th Grade:
English 12
AP Statistics
AP Environmental Science
AP Comparative Government and Politics
AP United States Government and Politics
Advanced Show Choir
Badminton
SAT II Scores:
-Math II (720)
-French w/listening (not in yet, confident in at least 700)
-Chinese w/listening (800)
-US History (700)
Awards and Societies:
California Scholarship Federation
National Honor Society
Presidents’ Volunteer Service Award (Gold Award))
French National Contest Levels 1,2, and 4 (Gold Award)
French Honor Society
Extracurriculars:
Sign Language Awareness Club: 4 years (Historian 10th Grade), (Treasurer 11-12th Grade)
French Club: 3 years
Peer Tutoring: 4 years (Historian 10th Grade), (President 11-12th Grade)
Advanced Show Choir: 3 years (Dance Captain 11th Grade), (Section Leader 12th Grade)
School Newspaper Writer: 4 years
-1st place and many awards at many, many show choir competitions throughout three years
Badminton: 3 years (JV 10th Grade), (Varsity 11-12th Grade), (Varsity Co-Captain 12th grade)
-won many games, but not good enough for CSF
Recommendation Letters:
French Teacher: she has a record of writing fantastic letter of recs, and I had her for two years, and she likes me for loving French so much that I was able to skip a whole class level
US History Honors Teacher: He has record of writing good letter of recs, advisor of S.I.G.N. club, so I communicate with him a lot on a weekly basis
AP Calc BC teacher: she knows me as a diligent student who tries his best and ask questions when help is needed.
Hobbies, skills, etc:
-I like screenprinting and film history
-advanced violin and piano player
-learned to be extremely fluent in French and ASL in three years
-native speaker of English and Mandarin Chinese
-founded nonprofit company 10th grade, helped raise over $10,000 per month since December 2013 to help underprivileged children in Africa and China
-program at Georgetown summer before 11th grade for International relations program
-focused on increasing revenue of nonprofit over summer before 12th grade, (started to earn approximately $200 per month since then)
My chances? Thank you for staying through this long post. I will chance back to all of you who respond, guaranteed