<p>I moved to california from singapore in december 2006, and im a senior in high school this year, so its kinda wierd to judge my GPA...</p>
<p>GPA(unweighted, because weightage is not a concept in Spore) : 3.67
In singapore, i was in one of the most competitive schools in the entire region, so it was much harder to get As</p>
<p>Freshman year: very bad results, because my grandma died while visiting us for the first time the week before my mid year exams, so i was basically screwed for the year.
Bio A+
Chem A
Physics A
Social Studies (like econ and poli sci combined) B
Geog C+ (yes, the day my grandma died was the geog finallll)
Eng A
Math B (but I won the silver medal in the Singapore Math Olympiad that year! So hopefully that will make up?)</p>
<p>Sophmore
Bio A+
Chem B
Physics A
Social Studies (like econ and poli sci combined) A
Geog A+
Eng A
Math A</p>
<p>Junior ( only 2nd sem, had to skip 1st sem and catch up with all the stuff)
AP Bio A
AP Calc B (omg dont ask, bad times)
US Hist A
French 2B B+ (i suck at french,but i still love the language)
Honors Brit Lit A</p>
<p>Senior year
(1st semester)
Photog A
AP Eng A
AP Econ A
AP Stat B+ (this is the tragedy of my LIFE rite now. I had a freaking 95 before the final. And now I have a 89.96 and HE WONT ROUND UP. Yeah.)
AP Chem B- ( hopefully my SATII will make up somewhat for this)
so obviously grades arent working for me. >< </p>
<p>SAT scores: 2200 total, 730 WR, 720 CR, 750 M
SAT2s: 800math2, 750bio, 800 chem</p>
<p>extracurriculars: </p>
<p>9th and 10th grade
school newsletter(editor)
indian orchestra(violin)
teaching kids with lang barriers to read (4h/week)
teacher at local tuition centre (something like kumon i guess)
tutor(yes, all of us are tutors!)
student congress head of outreach
helped to set up international convention of youth leaders (a LOT bigger than you think, it was a whole load of work and GREAT for networking)
research during summer at Institute of molecular and cellular biology, working on virology(:
* at this point in time, I was trying to start my own charity to provide sanitation to slum dwellers in india, but well that kind of fell through because the Indian government wouldn’t give us the permits required… so well, plans got postponed
11th grade
(keep in mind i started school in feb, so its like 5 months of school total)
Smile Club (raising funds for 3rd world kids who need cleft lip surgeries)
Youth Action team (community service. shall explain later)
tutor
12th grade
Founder and prez Gyan Club (going to be expanded to whole district next year, hopefully)
(its a non-profit tutoring business that i started. we basically tutor local kids at 11bucks an hour and we use all our profits to sponsor street children in india. its like a direct relationship between each tutor and kid, and we currently sponsor around 21.tons of groundwork and promotions, but twas all SO worth it(: one of my essays is about this, only its kind of more about helping poor children and education but this is one of the main aspects of what i did to help.)</p>
<p>Youth Action Team Prez
(so the youth action team is a board of highschool students interviewed and selected to organize events that help the community remain drug free etc. its technically a job and everyone else gets paid 10.40 per hour for doing stuff like putting up POSTERS, but sadly enough i dont have a work visa so im doing it for the experience and the community service. i'll basically have like 400h at the end of the year, because we have so many all day events and stuff. really great people and fun experience. my <em>boss</em> wrote a stellar letter of rec for me, so YAY.)</p>
<p>Smile club vice prez</p>
<p>Model UN vice prez (its a club at our school, we dont have a class)</p>
<p>CSF(no idea if this has an impact)</p>
<p>research at University of Calif Irvine UCI
(biophysics, around 8h/week, one of my essays is about this(common app). its basically drug research about the phospholipid membrane in the lungs, and its characterizing the molecule to figure out how to make premature babies develop the membrane faster)</p>
<p>other classes:
french 3 at local community college B:’(
French 4/5 at local community college (going on right now)
physics 3A over summer at UCI (my prof invited me to be his research assistant)A
Multivariable calc B+ (long story, got a 93 and the prof applied the curve when there were like 15 students in the class. and then he moved to china before we could argue.)</p>
<p>Essays:
Common App:
1. activity: research. I wrote about the daily research work that I do, and its implication on the global scale
2. a person who impacted you: I wrote about this incident when I was 11, when this little beggar girl almost got crushed by my car. It was one of my first encounters with poverty, and I described it in detail. Then I took a ten year leap and described a conversation I had with the CEO of the charity we are affiliated with for gyan club, and I wrote stuff about future prospects. I think it turned out well(: </p>
<p>Extra essay: about my grandma’s death and the first few days after; its kind of abstract, I don’t know how they will perceive it. But it was kind of important that they knew about it, because of my freshman grades etc</p>
<p>So, that’s me. What do you guys think? Am I being way to optimistic in thinking I have an actual chance?
Thanks so much for reading(:</p>