<p>Hi all…
Its another anxious senior
who’s going through a lot of stress (well who isn’t)</p>
<p>Encough talk.</p>
<h2>OK here we go…</h2>
<p>Nationality: South Korean
(Came to US 4 years ago)
School: Public school in California</p>
<p>@ GPA: 3.8 UW//4.2 W//4.27 UC GPA
uw 9th GPA[1st sem.] 4.0 // [2nd sem.] 3.83 (w. 4.0/3.83)
uw 10th GPA[1 sem.] 4.0 // [2nd sem.] 3.83 (w. 4.16/4.0)
uw 11th GPA [1sem.] 3.5(…) // [2nd sem.] 3.68 (w. 4.33/4.5)</p>
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<li>my 9th grade classes are not good because I did not speak English well at that time… (well… it’s not so great now either)</li>
</ul>
<p>@ Class Rank: top 6~8% (Most likely 7%)</p>
<p>@ AP scores:
AP English Language - 2 (sigh…)
AP European History- 4
AP US History- 4
AP World History- 5</p>
<p>@ Classes I’m going to take in my senior year:
AP Eng Lit
AP Calc AB
AP Bio
Ap Psy
Japanese IV Honors
Civics/ Economic CP</p>
<p>@ SAT I:
planned to take in Oct.
Hopefully will get 2100ish…</p>
<p>@ SAT II:
SAT Korean: 780 (0_0; i must be pretty stupid.)
SAT Math IIC: 670
SAT Bio E: 690
SAT World History: 750</p>
<p>*I’m panning to retake math and bio and take USH in nov.
(hopefully will get 700+ on them)</p>
<p>@ ECs: (Question: I know I do not have an amazing ec… but are they ok? what do you think?)</p>
<li><p>JNHS club (05-06 Board Member; 06-07 President) [4 years]
-> (03-04: Best Club of the Year; 04-05 Most Inspirational Club of the Year; 05-06 Best Club of the Year) </p></li>
<li><p>Builder’s society club (05-06 Secretary; 06-07 Rep.) [3 years]</p></li>
<li><p>Volunteered in local library as a libray clerk - approx. 300 hours</p></li>
<li><p>Volunteered in local food bank - approx. 30 hours</p></li>
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<p>@ Awards:
-Academic:
- Premio de Oro Awards:
(teachers select 5 best students and among 5 1 gets a medal)</p>
<p>in World History CP *medalist (9th)
in Algebra I (9th)
in English CP (10th)
in AP European History (10th)</p>
<ul>
<li>Etc:</li>
<li>04-05 Best Club member of the Year </li>
<li>05-06 JNHS Board member of the Year</li>
<li>various club member of the months awards…</li>
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<p>@ Letter of Rec.
Although I can not say this for sure yet
at least I think one of my teacher would give me an exceptional one… (if not better)
and the other one should be fine also…</p>
<p>@ Classes I took in community college:
- CSU/UC trasferable units
- Anthro 115: Physical Anthropology - A
- Enlgish 100: Freshmen Composition - A</p>
<p>@ Prospective Major:
- Anthropology or Archeology</p>
<p>@ Schools that I’m trying to apply</p>
<h2>- Brown U [ed?], Cornell U, UCB, UCLA, UCD, Boston College, Boston U, U of Notre Dame, Washington U in Louis, Washington U </h2>
<p>Unlike so many brilliant cc students here,
I do not have 4.0 uw gpa, 10 APs, 2300 sats or have amazing ecs either…</p>
<p>Do you think I still would have a chance on these top schools?
arg… I’m worried…</p>
<p>I really would appreciate your concerns and inputs…</p>
<p>Thank You for your trouble and time.
Thank you!!!</p>
<p>ps. again i apologize in advance if my grammer troubled you reading this as you can see I’m still learning english…</p>