Chance Me?

<p>I'm applying to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, UPenn, Cornell, Duke, Brown, NYU, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UCSD, and UCI. </p>

<p>I have a 3.9 unweighted GPA, 4.2 weighted
I am Asian American, first generation (Cambodian/Chinese)
Special circumstances
I go to a school in Woodland Hills, CA (in LAUSD)
I'm in at least the top 20 kids out of 964 kids. </p>

<p>Test Scores:
ACT: 33 (retaking for a higher score in Sept.)
SAT 2s: 710 Bio, 760 Math 2C, 750 Lit
APs: 3 Euro, 4 Bio, 4 US, 5 Art History</p>

<p>Extracurriculars & Awards:
NJROTC- 4 years. Have held multiple positions like Admin Officer and now currently Operations officer. Ranked 3 out of over 100 cadets.
-have won awards from the US Army and the Meritorious Achievement from the Dept. of the Navy
-have won Honor Cadet and other ribbons.</p>

<p>Student Council- 4 years, have been Dir. of Student Achievement, Dir. of Performing Arts, ASB Treasurer, Senior VP</p>

<p>Science Bowl- 4 years, have been B Team Captain, Asst. Captain, and A Team Captain for this year. (Our school has placed in top 4 at the LA regionals for two years)</p>

<p>Volunteering at Motion Pictures Hospital- 2 hours a week since 10th grade
Library: 2 hours from 9th-10th
Tutoring: 2 hours a week since 11th grade
School: 300+ hours </p>

<p>Patriot Letter writing award 1st place: (at my school) I wrote over 500+ letters by myself to troops overseas. </p>

<p>Charity Drives- I run a charity drive at school every year called Operation Happiness where we raise money to buy toys for children in the orphanages every year. (at least 3000+ dollars)</p>

<p>This year, I co-led the Sichuan Earthquake relief fund where we raied over 3000 dollars to be sent.</p>

<p>In the past summers I have gone to Leadership Academy, Sail Academy, and went to China to study.
-I won a 2nd place Sailing Competition & it's one of my favorite things to do now.</p>

<p>Clubs I'm Apart of:
-cofounded the Business Club since freshman year
-apart of Chinese, NHS, JSA CSF
-President of Cosmopolitan Club, was VP last year
-Have been apart of Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and eventually Senior Steering</p>

<p>Everything else:
I've taken Chinese since I was in 4th grade and took Italian for two years.</p>

<p>I'm probably forgetting alot of other things, but thanks for your advice and help!</p>

<p>Are you thinking about doing ROTC in college? If you do I think you have a really really good chance at all your schools that you are applying to, with the exception of the ivies. For the ivies, your NJROTC will show lots of commitment, but you will really want to sell yourself on the application and in the essay. I think you have a decent shot. Some people may say that since you don't have perfect SATs or ACTs , then your not in the running for admission, but I beg to differ. Good luck!</p>

<p>Thank you so much! Yes, I am thinking of doing ROTC in college, I'm actually applying for their scholarships.</p>

<p>Then you should be in really good shape!</p>