<p>9th-11th Unweighted GPA 3.6 → 12 Honors with 6 AP’s
AP US, AP Euro, AP English III, AP English IV, AP Statistics, AP Music</p>
<p>UC Weighted: 4.1 </p>
<p>SAT I → 1930 + (don’t know scores from December, hoping 1950-2000)
SAT II → math 720, chinese 770</p>
<p>Volunteer: strong, consistent resume that shows my leadership skills
UPMC Passavant Hospital 500 hrs +
Carnegie Science Center 150+
Northland Public Library 100+</p>
<p>I work 4 jobs simultaneously to develope my conceptual skills:
trilingual interpreter for an electronic company in China
Chinese cultural dance instructor
YMCA childcare staff
Office assistant for a management company in America</p>
<p>Area of Focus: //Communications// I am trilingual in Chinese, Japanese, English
1)I have been working as a trilingual interpreter for an altimeter company in China for 3 years
2)I organized English classes to teach the Chinese children from an orphanage (interviewed by Nanjing K-1 channel)
3)I published an article in Chinese Yangtze Newspaper after surveying 300 Chinese students. I wrote of youth’s cultural differences by comparing Chinese students to American students. </p>
<p>Internships:
International Affairs at University of Pittsburgh
Intern at UPMC Passavant McGowan Regenerative Tissue Lab</p>
<p>Strong recommendation letters. </p>
<p>Strong essay topic: I have turned my disadvantages into advantages and created opportunities for my self. Focused on my one personal family struggle in my 10th grade year and how I have evolved from that hardship and contributed to the community. </p>
<p><em>UCLA</em> - wrote of how I traveled 3000 miles over there this summer and took some college courses, including my passion to persue my future education**</p>
<p>Well I would be very surprised if you didn't get into UCLA because I hate how they immediately trash people with anything below a 4.0. Other than that I like your essay idea and SATs look solid...good luck!</p>
<p>With regard to UCLA's new hollistic approach to admissions, this is the first year they are using this, which will show hugely different admissions statistics.</p>
<p>They used to not look at minority status, which shows why there was a huge decline in African Americans being accepted to UCLA, but now, they are going to take EVERYTHING into consideration. They also used to admit people if they had a certain SAT score and GPA, and not even look at anything else. But now, they look at everything hollistically. So a 4.5 2360 student could easily be rejected from UCLA if academics was the only strong point of theirs.</p>
<p>Berkeley is very similar to UCLA in this approach, although UCLA's is still much more hollistic. The other UCs still use the point system, which is good for some people but is a huge disadvantage for others.</p>
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<p>delanoche, my understanding is that UCLA is basing their comprehensive review on Berkeley's system. From what information are you gathering that UCLA's system will be 'much more hollistic'?</p>
<p>i think it will help you actually, because you have really great extracurriculars... and your SAT II scores are excellent, which makes up for your somewhat below average SAT scores... just the out of state deal that will make it or break it.. i am actually in the same situation as you.. out of state with great ECs and a great GPA, but below average SAT scores and good SAT II scores... So good luck to you! I think you have a good chance though...</p>
<p>No it won't hurt you they'll just throw them away... there's no way the UC system is going to take the time to fax recs to all the UCs you applied to... it's not in their nature...</p>