<p>STATS____________________________________________</p>
<p>SAT I: 2370 (800 math , 780 reading , 790 writing)
SAT II: 800 math IIc , 790 physics , 750 U.S. History
AP: Calculus BC 5 , Physics C (Self-study) 4 , US History 4
GPA: 4.6w , 3.9uw
GPA w/o Freshmen year : 4.9w, 4.0uw (Grade showing extreme upward curve)
Rank: 10/400 (in an very competitive high school that sends 8-10 ppl to ivies every year)
IB Diploma Candidate</p>
<p>AWARDS____________________________________________
-(NATIONAL) National History Day Research Competition (1st Sacramento, 1st California, 3rd Nationals)
-(NATIONAL) Science Olympiad (Team 1st Sacramento, 1st Northern California, 19th Nationals)
-(NATIONAL) Questbridge Finalist
-(INTERNATIONAL) International Baccalaureate Middle Years Certificate
-(NATIONAL) National Merit SemiFinalist
-(NATIONAL) NHS, CSF, Who's Who, National Society of High School Scholars, the standard stuff
-(SCHOOL) Principal's Honor Rolls
-(SCHOOL) My High School's Distinction in History Award
-(REGIONAL) Mock Trial (Regionals 3rd Place)
-(REGIONAL) UCSD / Intel Research Grant and Award for Computer Science (For my research project in computer science)
-(NATIONAL) American Mathematics Contest Certificate of Distinction / AIME Qualifier
-(REGIONAL) American Regional Mathematic League Region B West Coast 2nd Place
-(REGIONAL) Korean Mathematics Olympiad (2nd Northern California Regionals)
-(NATIONAL) AP Scholar with Honors</p>
<p>EXTRACURRICULARS (look above for awards in academic ec's)______________</p>
<ul>
<li>Filmmaking (9-12) (My films and documentaries have been shown at the Cal-IT2 Theatre at San Diego, IB Teacher Conferences in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Washington D.C. and I have been to countless film festivals across the country. I will be sending a film supplement to top schools...also why i am applying for USC School of Cinema if the questbridge thing doesn't work out)</li>
<li>Work Part Time (9-12) (family is low-income, parents can't speak English)</li>
<li>Tennis (9-12) (4 year varsity, Senior Captain, lead the team to NorCal sections multiple times, League MVP, USTA Team Tennis Northern California 2nd Place for 2 years, and A LOT OF regional and state awards)</li>
<li>Tanzanian Tennis Project (10-12) (My tennis coach and I started this project where we would send in thousand dollars worth of tennis equipments to ppl in Tanzania. I was featured in july edition of "Inside Tennis" magazine, and Nike, USTA, other organizations have been contacting us for publicity and funding)</li>
<li>Community Service (9-12)(teach underprivleged students math and immigrants english and teach ppl tennis, 200-300 hours)</li>
<li>Local Church Youth Group Volunteer (9-12)</li>
<li>National History Day Competition (10-12)</li>
<li>Science Olympiad (11-12)</li>
<li>UC Davis Math Modeling / Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (10-12)</li>
<li>Piano for 8 years, got certificates of merit level 5 (9-12)</li>
<li>Founder and president of both film club, history club (9-12)</li>
<li>Summer research on film / media computing at UCSD with Computer Sicence Professors and Film Studies Graduate Students (12)</li>
<li>Manager of the Arcade Creek ROP Natural Resources Project (11-12) (Creek restoration project involving 200+ students. I'm their boss.)</li>
<li>Snowboarding! (9-12) (For fun but can go down almost anything.)</li>
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<p>SUBJECTIVE</p>
<p>Essays: Although they're not stellar, I am pretty confident about them.
Recommendations: 3 Amazing (I have known all of them since 9th grade, and they love me)
Hook: IMO my best bet is in Filmmaking, because they are expanding their arts department, and I wrote about how I integrate everything i do (science, math, history, etc) in filmmaking. And I also wrote about how my films have served ppl from California to Philadelphia to Washington D.C. to Tanzania. Also, I did start that Tanzania tennis thing which got recognized by national magazines and Nike and USTA...</p>
<p>The reason my freshmen year (which is the only year I have B's in) is because my middle school didn't have ESL and I came here 7 years ago...so for three years I really didn't get to learn english. By immersion I did learn it eventually, but I really had hard time in honors English classes in 9th grade. Also, I had to work primarily in my 9th grade year cuz my father's office was robbed as well as whole chunk of money, so i had to help him get back on track by doing miscellaneous office / menial work.</p>
<p>I took Calc freshmen year and took linear algebra and differential equation the summer after...Then kinda stopped doing math and started doing more useful things like science research :)</p>
<p>SORRY for the long post...but probably this week's going to be my last week here on CC (cuz it takes way too much of my time :( ) so I would like to know chances at</p>
<p>Princeton (ED)
Stanford
Harvard
MIT / CalTech
Cornell
UCB, UCLA
Harvey Mudd </p>
<p>THX!!!</p>