I am a freshman aiming high (unrealistically lol) Below are my stats, some of them are goals that I hope to accomplish in high school, some I accomplished already:
PERSONAL:
- Asian Female
- US Student with Residency
- Quadrilingual (I don’t know if it’s a word, English, Chinese, French, Spanish)
- First Gen
- Moved to US 7th to 8th summer
GRADES:
- 4.83 W, 4.00 UW
- 1/791 (yeah huge class)
- Public school in Orange County, CA
STANDARDIZED AND STUFF:
- SAT: 1540 (740ENG+800MATH) I took it in eighth grade so I will most likely take it again freshman->sophomore summer and I’m aiming for 1580, most likely will happen since I got perfect score once in a while on practice tests
- ACT: 35 or 36 (GOAL)
- SAT 2: Math 2 800, Bio M 760, French w/ Listening 770 (will take Physics in May, hopefully I get close to 800)
- AP: Chinese (5)
FUTURE ACADEMIC PLANS (in school only):
Sophomore yr: AP Physics I, AP Euro, AP Span Lang, Honors English, Honors Precalc, AP Compsci (have coded for a while, I will just take it, teacher at school sucks a lot)
Junior yr: AP Physics C, APUSH, AP Span Lit, AP Lang, AP Calc BC
Senior yr: AP Gov, AP Econ (Macro+micro), AP Lit, AP Chem (possibly), AP Stats
- hopefully I can get all 5’s on the AP’s if not 4 would be fine I assume?
- if I have free period I’ll probably be teacher assistant for french teacher who is also the Academic Decathlon coach (and I’m on the team)
EC:
- Marching band (2 years only, too much work; our band won 1st this year and last year but I wasn’t in last year, but it’s not personal achievement apparently)
- Academic decathlon (did Pentathlon before, got 3 metals in Art, Science and Math, didn’t do it this year, hopefully I can get more than three metals county-wise next year)
- SciOly (try to run for event leader next year, hopefully i can make it)
- California Scholarship Federation
- Music Club (volunteering at senior centers and stuff)
- National Honors Society (GOAL, I want to run for ec and then prez or vp some day)
- School Newspaper
- Editor-in-chief of the monthly newsletter of a GREAT community STEM-related organization, will be in student council next year and become a president for one of the sub-organizations (how GREAT this organization is may be reflected by the more-than-thirty Ivies and HYPSM ppl every year I guess? )
- Estimated Service Hours in 4 years: more than 600 (with medals in PVSA every year)
- More may be added throughout the years
AWARDS:
- Piano CM Advanced (at the age of 13) with 100% on theory
- Have performed as piano soloist at Weill (Carnegie)
- AIME Qualifier x2 (8th+fr)
- I hope that I can qualify for USAMO at least JMO once in my high school career, it’s not that far away since I got 132 on AMC 10+7 on AIME this year
- ARML
- Math Prize for Girls Qualifier (8th grade, I think I will qualify this year?)
- USAPhO Semifinalist (8th grade, not this year rip)
- County-wise science fair winner as freshman, hopefully I can qualify for ISEF some time and ideally be a STS semifinalist
Could anyone please chance me for the TOP schools like HYPSM and the other Ivies? I think I will choose some of the UC’s as safety. Though, I am still a freshman so… um… things change fast. Some of the stuff listed above are just my (hopeless) dreams and goals. I really need some advice on future plans. My intended majors are definitely STEM related ones as you can tell I am just better in those areas. I am thinking of applied math (or physics, I really can’t choose between the two) with a minor in compsci (yeah it’s so important and useful in the future).