<p>Korean male attending competitive public high school that sends at about 20 kids to ivy caliber schools each year.</p>
<p>Course rigor</p>
<p>Will have finished all these at a local community college by the time I graduate:</p>
<p>Art History
Physics + lab
Astronomy + lab
Microecon
Macroecon
Microbio
Anthropology
Philosophy
Sociology</p>
<p>Senior Schedule:
AP Comp Sci
AP English Lit
AP Euro
AP Stats
Honors US Gov
+ 6 community college classes (from the list above) – 3 each semester</p>
<p>Standardized tests</p>
<p>SAT IIs:
Math II: 760
World H: 760
Korean: 780</p>
<p>ACT composite: 34
Math: 36
English: 32
Science: 35
Reading: 31
Essay: 7</p>
<p>SAT - 2160
Math: 780
Writing: 700 (essay 8)
CR: 680</p>
<p>Planning to retake ACT and SAT on December. I am aiming for 35/36 on ACT and/or 2300+ on SAT.</p>
<p>AP tests</p>
<p>World: 5
Calc AB – 5
Biology – 5
US History - 4
Enviro Sci - 4
English Lang (self study) – 3
This year APs: Stats, Comp Sci, English Lit, Euro, and Calc BC (self study)</p>
<p>Academic gpa</p>
<p>Weighted: 4.55 (without PE grades)
Unweighted: 3.85 (without PE grades)
upward trend in grades
Rank: top 8% of graduating class. Is my rank too low? I could have been in top 3% if it wasn't for my PE grades.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars</p>
<ul>
<li>Popping/Hip hop dance for 4 years. Performed at kollaboration 2007. (pretty good at this, I dedicate a lot of my time to dancing)</li>
<li>Work at my dad's computer shop. (My dad operates the shop by himself so I have to help out. ~20 hours a week for about two years now)</li>
<li>Peer tutor in school (I use my lunch time to tutor kids in math/science)</li>
<li>Mu Alpha Theta president (national math club organization, will hold my position)</li>
<li>Korean Club VP junior year. President this year.</li>
<li>Teaching and helping "mentally" disabled kids at a local elementary school. (I can do this only during summer/winter/spring breaks since those are the only times where my school time doesn't coincide with the elementary school times)</li>
<li>Tennis (private lessons but not competitive and not that good either) - 3 years</li>
<li>Piano (pretty good) - passed level 9 CM test</li>
<li>I am involved in various other environmental activities (like beach clean ups, planting tress, etc.) during the weekends.</li>
</ul>
<p>Misc</p>
<p>Recs will be stellar</p>
<p>strong essays - my counselor say it was superb</p>
<p>First generation to go to college</p>
<p>very tough courseload</p>
<p>prospective econ major</p>