I’m currently a junior at a very small Catholic school (120 students 9-12) in a rural area and I’m interested in these schools. While my choices may change in the future (obviously), I just want to see if this is good for these four schools. Btw, I grew up in Vietnam and have only lived in America for 4 years or so, but I’ve got dual citizenship. Here are my schools in preferred order.
USC(southern california)
Duke
Umich
Stanford
Rice
Purdue
Princeton
Michigan state
UCIrvine
Academics:
-Gpa: 3.96 (UW), 4.15 (W)
-SAT: 2120 (Going to retake this year)
-ACT: No idea
-AP classes: (Psychology:5) (US History 4) Those were the maximum amount sophomore year at my previous school , am currently taking AP chem, Calc bc, and APComparative gov. My current school’s only got 4 AP courses btw.
-Extracurriculars: Model UN (won some awards), science olympiad team that won regionals and state and placed nationally at UNebraska. Captain of baseball team soph year, varsity track as frosh&soph. Earned all regional in track both years. JV football frosh&soph year. Helped tutor athletes after school. Student council frosh&soph year.
-Summer activities: AAU track, travel baseball for a very renowned, selective and competitive team in Asia. Interned and assisted in translation (German and English) in tax department at a law firm , interned and performed research on nanotechnology at the Vietnamese national institute of biotechnology.
Misc: Fluent in three languages, and can read four. ranked 3/539 at my old school and 1/30ish at the school I’m currently in. Had to switch schools about 3 times the last 4 years (long story). I’m half Vietnamese half American.
Volunteer/community service: Volunteered at a hospital 5 hours a week for 40 weeks and counting so far, and I help the teachers with grading or with errands around school. I also helped out the Vietnamese branch of an organization for autism for about 3 weeks last spring. This year I’ll probably do more though.