<p>Last post here on my Chances:</p>
<p>Applying to Wharton Early Decision</p>
<p>Hi, Im Chinese and I go to a public high school in the Bay Area (I know, I know). I was born in China and am a Chinese citizen. I speak Chinese, English, and Spanish (learned in high school).</p>
<p>2240 (760 M 750 V 730 W) New SAT I
790 US History SAT II
760 Math SAT II </p>
<p>Biology AP- 5
US History AP- 5</p>
<p>Taking 3 AP classes senior year (English AP, Economics AP, Calculus BC AP)</p>
<p>Our high school does not offer that many AP classes…basically freshmen and sophomores do not have any AP classes available to them.</p>
<p>U/W GPA 3.996 (Only 1 B in my entire HS career and it was in freshmen year, straight A’s both sophomore and junior year)
Weighted 4.225
Weighted (10-12) 4.38
Weighted (11) 4.67</p>
<p>School doesnt give rankings. I wish they did though, if they did Id be ranked number one, since our school doesnt weigh grades or count freshmen year grades.</p>
<p>ECs:</p>
<p>Debate Team- 4 years (Captain jr Year, President snr year). Awards at many tournaments. Also, unlike many other schools, our school has a very small team and doesnt have a debate team coach so I pretty much taught all the novices (some of whom are pretty successful) and handled all the administrative issues. I also was basically single-handedly responsible for the progression of our program. My freshmen year we had 3 members and we went to 2 local tournaments. My junior year we had 50 something members and went to 8 national circuit tournaments. All my success has also been attained without a coach. I plan to write about this in my essay. My debate advisor will write a letter of rec, talking about my ability to teach novices, work without a coach, ect.</p>
<p>I also heard Wharton is very prone to debaters so this should help a lot.</p>
<p>Junior Statesmen of America- 2 years (a member since it was started my junior year). Leadership position guaranteed, either vice president or speaker of house/senate senior year. We go to conventions and have debates every week.</p>
<p>Socio-Political Activist League- 3 years (a member since it was created my sophomore year). Vice president senior year. We go to rallies, protests, and organize mock elections.</p>
<p>Student Representative on Student Site Council senior year. This is where the school decides where it allocates a lot of its’ funds.</p>
<p>CSF (California Scholarship Federation)- Member 9-12 years. Did community service activities like tutoring poor inner city kids, gift wrapping for charity, judging for novice debate tournaments. Not TOO involved in this club so not an officer.</p>
<p>Key Club- Member for 9th, 10th and 12th grade. Same as above basically.</p>
<p>Football team (JV) Sophomore year.</p>
<p>Internship at Xceive (Start-Up Company) for 4 weeks. 8 hours each day. Helped them complete numerous projects like do powerpoints, write for their website, make graphs and do statistical analysis, ect. Planning to get the person I worked under (VP of Marketing) to write me a letter of rec.</p>
<p>Internship under Assemblywoman Sally Leiber (Assistant Speaker of the California Legislative assembly). About 5 hours a week for 2 months. We get to sit in on the Assemblywomans meetings, handle and get exposed to social and political issues, and basically see how the state legislative body works first hand.</p>
<p>My essay ought to be very good and my letters of rec will be decent as well.</p>
<p>Id say my hook is definitely debate. And the fact that all my ECs are very focused towards a political/law/business-related career.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input!</p>