<p>Hi guys,</p>
<p>I just wanted some input for my chances for UC's and USC.
Ethnicity : Asian (Indian)
Income Bracket : $200,000 + (according to my mom)
Unweighted GPA : 4.00, Weighted for Junior Year is : 4.85 (my school gives weight for honors classes, only reason it isn't 5.0)
SAT scores: 2220 (feel like I can bring it to 2250)
PSAT: 224 (National Merit)
SAT 2: 780 Biology E/M, 800 Math II, 760 US History, 780 Chemistry (self study), 760 French (self study)
AP Tests : Calculus BC 5, APUSH 5, Chemistry 4 (self study), Biology 5, French 5, Comp. Sci. 4 (was sick with flu whole month, not really an excuse, just a reason why I was not able to perform up to par)</p>
<p>Schedule and Grades (starting from 9th grade) :
9th :
-French 2 (A)
-Alg. 2/Trig. (A first semester, slipped second with a B)
-Writing/Literature (A)
-PE 9 (A)
-Biology (A)
-Band (A...lol)
10th :
-French 3 (A)
-Pre-Calc. Honors (A)
-World Lit. (A)
-World SS. (A)
-Chemistry Honors (A)
-Teacher's Aide for Biology (A....lol)
-PE 10/12 (A)
11th :
-AP French (skipped Honors) (A)
-AP Bio (A)
-APUSH (A)
-American Literature Honors (A)
-AP Calculus BC (A)
-AP Computer Science (A)
Prospective 12th grade :
-AP Chem
-AP Lit.
-AP Stats
-AP Econ.
-Beginner's Drama for giggles
Really no other classes I can take senior year. </p>
<p>My grades all mostly all A's, one slip up on Alg. 2 Trig. second semester with a B- (83%) due to addictive PC gaming, but I fixed that really quickly. </p>
<p>Extra-Curricular(s)(sorta lacking here):
-Swimming JV for Frosh./Soph., then Varsity, couple of places, nothing too great.
-Swimming for SC swim center for 5 years
-DECA club 10-12th (most likely), Public Rep. Officer this year, next year hopefully VP Competitions
-French Honor Society 9th - 12th (honorary position on 12th because I will be done with all levels of French) President 11th grade
-Speech and Debate 9th - 12th. Right now I'm a co-captain LD, hope to make VP/P next year
-Volunteering at Cupertino Library (50 hours), local farm for middle schoolers (50 hours), and at UCSF Children's Hospital (50 hours), as well as Kaiser Permamenente (50 hours). 200 hours overall.
-UCSD Bioengineering Cluster 10th - 11th grade summer.
-Planning to do Stanford Internship 11th to 12th grade summer (High</a> School and Pre-medical Student Stanford Summer Internship - Cardiothoracic Surgical Skills and Education Center - Stanford University School of Medicine)</p>
<p>Recommendations: Biology teacher for freshman with both semesters A+ (I fell in love with biological sciences this year), AP Calc. BC teacher (really made a bond, helped my struggle with differentiation, addressed anything I needed, really strong bond, still loving it), AP Bio. Teacher (again, loved the class, strong teacher student bond, fell in love with biology even more in this class, still loving it), and French 5 AP Teacher (I struggled really hard with the pronunciation until she taught me, really strong bond from freshman year, same teacher every year). Maybe my Chem. Honors teacher could recommend, he's pretty chill and we didn't really have a bond but I think he knew I was pretty bright :D. Counselor recommendation should be decent, he has addressed any questions I have asked, joked around with me in chemistry honors last year. </p>
<p>Intended major: Biology or Bioengineering (I still have to think about this)</p>
<p>Colleges:
UC Berkeley (priority)
UC LA (priority)
UC Davis (people surprisingly tell me that the bio. program is good, priority I guess...)
UC San Diego (people tell me the social life is stale, but priority)
UC Irvine
UC Riverside (lol)
USC
JHU ED (do I even stand a chance? EC's are pretty crappy)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (cousin will graduate from here, does that make it legacy? not sure)</p>
<p>I'll chance back.
Thanks!</p>