<p>Apologies in advance for the long post. & I hope I posted this in the appropriate forum..</p>
<p>Berkeley has definitely been my dream school since I was young. (Fascinated me when I was in 3rd grade, haha!) I'm going an in-coming junior so you might think it's too early for me to be chanced, but I'll appreciate it greatly. I'm cool with UCLA too.</p>
<p>I'm a 100% Chinese girl so that'll go against me (sigh) and I go to a somewhat competitive highschool. My class year is filled with extremely intelligent people (many of them have similar ECs to mine as well), but I know I'm also competing with everyone else applying from around the globe. Just thought I should let you know, heh. I live in California and go to the only highschool in my suburban town.</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: School doesn't show it.
Class rank: 1 (Or so it says on my transcript, but many of my friends have the same rank)
Class size: 818</p>
<p>FRESHMAN YEAR:
Spanish I: A+/A
Geometry A: A-/A
Biology: A+/A
English IA: A/A
Graphic Design/Cultural History (both 1 semester classes): A+/A-
PE: A/A-</p>
<p>SOPHOMORE YEAR:
Honors Chemistry: A-/A
AP World History: A-/A- (2nd semester might be an A since I'm only .01% off)
Algebra II: A/A
English IIA: A/A
PE: A/A
Spanish II: A/A</p>
<p>JUNIOR CLASSES:
AP US History:
AP Chemistry:
Honors English:
Pre-Calculus:
Photography:
Spanish III:</p>
<p>SENIOR CLASSES:
Calculus AB (AP):
AP English:
AP Biology:
Econ/Gov:
Journalism *School newspaper (Maybe):
Anatomy (Maybe):</p>
<p>*Taking Physics @ a community college this summer. I'm thinking about taking Stats, maybe Trig, and maybe another science class next summer.</p>
<p>CAHSEE (California High School Exit Exam):
ELA: 445
Math: 450
<em>I don't know if this is important or not but it's on my transcript, haha.
*</em>All Sophomores are required to take it and get at least a 350/450 (I think) in order to graduate.</p>
<p>SAT Is: Taking my 1st in Fall. Hoping for at least a 2100.
SAT IIs:
World History: 550
*My lame excuse is that I didn't get to study; trying to get my WHAP grade back to an A, haha. Probably retaking it in Fall. Trying to get above a 700.
AP Tests:
AP World History: Hoping for a 4/5</p>
<p>I don't have many extra curriculars and the list I have is pathetic compared to everyone else's. These are the ECs I'll be involved in by the end of senior year:
- Chinese Club Historian for 1 year and co-president for 2 years. This club is one of the biggest clubs we have at our school since our school is 80% or so Asian. This includes the task of planning the Lunar Show, a trip to San Francisco, planning a banquet, and finding community service opportunities.
- Key Club Historian for 2 years
- Operation Smile Secretary for 1 year and co-vice president for 2 years
- 3 years of track (No awards though)
*Planning to join CSF (California Scholar Federation) and maybe Dragon Boat (doubt it) as well as Science Olympiad. (As a regular member)
- 117 Community Service Hours (Trying to hit around 300!)</p>
<p>I'm also working with a friend on a t-shirt business. So far we have some sponsors from a some-what known dance crew, professional gamers, and the the police department I believe? (or we get funded) So we definitely have some backing. We're planning to keep all of our designs to show the colleges if they're wanting to see some proof and I guess a record of our sales.
In addition to our business (starting off pretty soon), I've been asked by several clubs to design the shirts and sweaters for their members/officers/district including:
- Hip Hop Club (didn't use it)
- DECA (used)
- Chinese Club (used both)
- PANDAC (didn't use it)
- Dragon Boat (used it)
- Key Club (will be designing the members' shirts and possibly shirts for each division)
- Badminton team (Used)
- Interact (will be designing their sweaters)
- Junior class shirts
*I'm most likely designing the sweaters and shirts for all of the above again for the upcoming year and senior year.</p>
<p>As I already stated; my ECs are pretty dull and pathetic. Do you think designing t-shirts count or does it give off a weak impression/ seem as somewhat of a joke?</p>
<p><em>The job of a historian in my school is to advertise our club in a sense and make an album. There's a lot to cover in Chinese Club and for Key Club, there's a competition to see which division/school has the best album. (helps us get the Golden Key!) Basically, I go to every event and take pictures. I also do designing, organizing, and help with anything else.
*</em>I'm pretty passionate about Chinese Club along with designing shirts. Key Club is becoming important to me, although this is my first year as an officer (Member for 2 years already.)</p>