<p>The colleges I'm thinking of applying to are: UCSD, UC Berkeley, UCLA, U of Rochester, MIT, CalTech, Cornell, USC, Duke, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Villanova, Northwestern, & Washington University in St. Louis.</p>
<p>I am currently a junior in high school. I'm an Asian California resident living in the valley (my location is air-polluted, so that's a plus) and my school is part of the ELC program.</p>
<p>GPA AND TEST SCORES
Cumulative Weighted GPA (non-UC): 4.74
Cumulative Unweighted GPA: 3.88</p>
<p>SAT-R: 1970 (I've only taken it once, but I will retake it and try the ACT / SAT II's)
CR - 580
M - 720
W - 670</p>
<p>Top 4% of my class (#2 out of 170)
400+ service hours</p>
<p>Freshman year: 3 Honors (I took the max my school offered)
Band - A/A
English 9 (H) - A/A
Spanish I - A/A
Theology 9 - A/A
Physics 9 (H) - A/A
Geometry (H) - A/A
Rhetoric - A/A</p>
<p>Sophomore year: 4 Honors, 1 AP (I took the max my school offered. We hardly have any AP classes.)
Band - A/A
English 10 (H) - A/A
Spanish II (H) - A/A
Theology 10 - A/A
Chemistry (H) - A/A
Algebra II (H) - A/A
World History (AP) - B/A</p>
<p>Junior year: 5 Honors, 1 AP (I took the max my school offered. We hardly have any AP classes.)
Band - A/A
English 11 (H) - B/A
Spanish III (H) - A/A
Theology 11 (H) - B/A
Biology 11 (H) - B/B
Math Analysis (H) - A/A</p>
<p>As you can see, I improved my 2nd semester junior year.</p>
<p>E/C's
-Top of my Freshman class award with a weighted GPA of 4.619 average
-4 years Marching Band, Steel Drums, Jazz Band, and piano playing for School Masses. (*I'm very good at playing piano and drumset) I get lots of service hours for this.
-Honor Band percussionist
-4 years Member of a CLC group (Christian Life Community)
-3 years Hip-Hop Club President
-1 year Junior Class President
-1 year ASB Vice President
-2 years CSF Secretary
-Been playing piano since 2nd grade
-No sports (mainly because of my asthma)
-Academic Decathlon team member
-2 years Link Crew member
-2 years Student Ambassador
-Tutor in chemistry</p>