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<p>Update for the curious:</p>

<p>Washington State Taiwanese/Chinese American Male (not from Seattle Area)</p>

<p>PSAT: 224</p>

<p>-National Merit Semi-Finalist of 2008</p>

<p>-National Merit Finalist of 2009</p>

<p>SAT Is:
-FINAL SAT SCORE: 2210: 720 Reading, 760 Math, 730 Writing (only missed one in math section, which is lame) and this was November 2008</p>

<p>SAT IIs:
-Math Level 2: 780
-Biology E: 750
-World History: 770</p>

<p>AP classes so far (end of Junior year):
World History: 5
Calculus AB: 5
Calculus BC: 5 (Calculus AB subscore also 5)
English 11/Language and Composition: 5
US History: 4 (*** happened?)</p>

<p>-Taking AP Statistics, AP English Literature, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics this year</p>

<p>-AP Scholar with Distinction</p>

<p>-Signed up for AP Chemistry and AP Biology but school could not have the classes because of budget problems, this was mentioned in both of my teacher recommendations.</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 Unweighted (WA doesn’t weight GPAs)</p>

<p>Rank: 1 out of 464</p>

<p>Languages:
Fluent in Mandarin and Taiwanese (Read, Listen, Write although Taiwanese is a spoken dialect that uses Chinese words)
Basic Spanish</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-martial arts for 11 years (really a mix of stuff from kick boxing to Kyokushin Karate) and have a 1st dan (black belt) in Tae Kwon Do at the dojang I’ve been going to for the last 7 years
-Tournament Team at Dojang
-2nd Place in Tae Kwon Do Forms at a recent Washington State Martial Arts Open Tournament
-3rd Place in Tae Kwon Do Sparring at a recent Washington State Martial Arts Open Tournament
-Junior Instructor at Dojang
-Demo Team member of Dojang
-Solo Piano for 12 years, Adjudications, Washington State Concerto competitions, got a few awards, etc.
-National Music Teachers Association Adjudications and Honors Recital Honorable Mentions every year for past 6 years
-Concerto Competition Honorable Mentions for every year past 6 years
-Knowledge Bowl Team B Captain
-Academic Decathlon (been to nationals)
-Chinese/Mandarin School
-Qualified to compete in state competition National Economics Challenge 2009
-Stock Market Game
-Ping Pong club (haha as if anyone gives a crap)
-volunteer at a hospital (treated like an employee, and I have done about 100 hours, plan on doing 200+)</p>

<p>Teacher Recommendations: Very flattering recommendations and being a pretty humble person I found them to be almost embarrassing.</p>

<p>Applied to these:
-University of Washington Honors
-University of Southern California
-Johns Hopkins
-Yale
-University of Pennsylvannia
-Harvard
-University of Chicago
-Duke
-Stanford (definitely want to get in here. MUST GET IN!!!)
-Washington University in St. Louis</p>

<p>Schools So Far:
University of Washington (non-Honors) - accepted into normal UW back in December 2008
University of Southern California - accepted 1 week ago
Washington University in St. Louis - Waitlisted and now I am a bit discouraged
University of Chicago - accepted</p>

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<p>Nice job on Chicago. Get any aid for USC?</p>

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<p>^^^ Yeah, at USC, I have the presidential scholarship from NMF. Financial aid package yet to be sent.</p>

<p>And…</p>

<p>Schools So Far:
-University of Washington (non-Honors) - Accepted into normal UW back in December 2008, Washington State Scholar Award or something like that –> for all 4 years, full tuition paid for. Still waiting on Honors UW.</p>

<p>-University of Southern California - Accepted March 9, NMF so automatic Presidential Scholarship (1/2 tuition off every year)</p>

<p>-Washington University in St. Louis - Waitlisted</p>

<p>-University of Chicago - Accepted (but definitely not top choice because no biomedical engineering or any undergrad engineering at that)</p>

<p>-Duke University - Accepted at Pratt Engineering for Biomedical Engineering, financial aid yet to be sent.</p>