<p>Hi everyone! I'm a current junior who just finished his first semester.</p>
<p>Schools:</p>
<p>Princeton
UMD (legacy)
Caltech
UC Berkeley
Harvard
Stanford
JHU
Chicago
UCSD
UCLA
MIT</p>
<p>Location: California
Ethnicity: Chinese (One of the 55 Ethnic Minority groups)
Age: 17
Major: Chemistry or Biochemistry (depending on school)
Income: 150-200k
School type: Competitive Public
Class rank: No rankings for our school</p>
<p>GPA:</p>
<p>Cumulative Weighted (As of end of first semester junior year): 4.134
Cumulative Unweighted (As of end of first semester junior year): 3.784</p>
<p>Cumulative Weighted (Predicted as of end of first semester senior year): 4.33
Cumulative Unweighted (Predicted as of end of first semester senior year): 3.85</p>
<p>SAT:</p>
<p>PSAT: 223</p>
<p>SAT I:</p>
<p>2320 (single sitting, first time)
Math 750
CR 770
Writing 800</p>
<p>Sat II:</p>
<p>Chinese 800
Chemistry 780
Taking Math II and US History May</p>
<p>Cumulative weighted Courseload and AP Test scores:</p>
<p>AP Chinese 5
AP European History 3 (i was sick during the test :/)
AP Chemistry
AP Statistics
AP USH
AP Literature
Honors Precalculus
Honors Chinese IV
Honors Chemistry (Received a C+ first semester sophomore year, but solid A second semester of sophomore year)</p>
<p>EC:</p>
<p>165 hours as an AVID tutor
National Honor Society member
3 years as vice president of Academic Prep club
Varsity Badminton Freshman year
Mu Alpha Theta
Chem Club officer
CSF member
Some hours volunteering for senior citizens/volunteer for senior citizen club
Most likely will enter a relatively prestigious science research internship this summer (UCSF BHSI, Berkeley Sharp, BLIPS etc.); have already applied to a few.
Artworks displayed at local museum freshman year
Habitat for Humanity club
Does being in a sponsored team for a video game count? LOL</p>
<p>Possible Hooks:</p>
<p>STRONG upward trend in grades
Ethnic minority group as a chinese (technically makes me part Mongolian, but I don't know if this will help)</p>
<p>Awards:</p>
<p>Honor Roll all semesters of high school
National Merit Semifinalist (Not yet, but will happen)
Possible future awards include AIME qualification and USChO (Relatively sure about USChO but not so sure about AIME)</p>