<p>This is my first attempt at this and I've honestly never really bothered with college until now... Some comments would be nice :)</p>
<p>General
Asian Male: Class of 2012: Southern California
UW GPA: 3.5 3.7 ish (after grade changes)
W GPA: Not sure
4.2? maybe? (I take pretty much every Honors class available)
Rank: Top 15%; (Based on unweighted)
PSAT: 230
SAT: 2330 (770CR, 770M, 790WR)
SATII: 800 Chem, 770 Math II C
AP's: Biology (5), Chem(5), MacroEcon (4), MicroEcon(5), CalcAB (5)
Senior Schedule: ToK (IB), Bio HL, Spanish SL, English HL, Math HL</p>
<p>School Extracurriculars
-FBLA (11, 12) (Webmaster)
-Astronomy Club (9,10,11,12) (Cabinet)</p>
<p>Volunteer Work
- I volunteer at a hospital/development center for the mentally retarded (severe-profound).
- Am currently a webmaster for a nonprofit organization based on helping the poor in other countries.
- Tutor kids at an after school academy
- Also have volunteer hours from different activities for CAS (IB stuff)
- Tutor SAT for CAS.</p>
<p>Job Experience
- Tutor
- Freelance programming (mainly PHP)</p>
<p>Awards/Honors
- National Merit Semifinalist. (I havent received it but 230 is in the range for sure)
- Hold 7th place in California for FBLA Networking Concepts
- Passed AMC 12 (10th/11th)</p>
<p>Misc
- I have a pretty solid foundation (self-taught however) in web programming languages such as PHP.
- I have working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- I have some knowledge of Java/C. Im still learning these.</p>
<p>Planning to get recommendations from my math teacher (9/10) [I expect it to be glowing. She loved me and I did great in her class] and my GLC.</p>
<p>I want to major in Computer Science/Engineering/IT (computer related field)</p>
<p>Schools:
CalTech (lol what the heck)
MIT (of course not)
CMU (-___-)
UC Berkeley
UC Irvine (Only because its located so close to Google)
Northwestern
UCLA
UCSD</p>
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<li>If you know any other schools that would be good for me and I have a chance at, please let me know!</li>
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