Applying ED to Columbia, EA to UChicago
Also planning to apply to: NYU, Wellesley, Barnard, UC Berkeley
Considering: USC, Boston College
Demographics: Chinese-American female, high income family
Major: Undecided
Academics
My school has few APs and doesn’t do class rankings or weighted GPAs.
GPA: 3.92 UW
SAT: 1560 (790 Reading/770 Math), Essay 7/7/7
Subject Tests: Math II (800), Chemistry (780), Biology E (740), US History (780)
APs: US History (5), French (5)— planning to take Calc BC, Physics C Mechanics, Psychology, Studio Art, Statistics this year
Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, Silver Medal in National French Contest
Extracurriculars
run a club for empowering Asian-Americans
writer for school newspaper
create the design/layout for the school magazine
player on the Ultimate Frisbee team
peer mediator
Other
sales associate, 10 hours/week
coach for middle school Science Olympiad (60 volunteer hours)
teacher’s assistant for Mandarin class
hobbies: art, piano, language learning (self-studying Korean)
did a summer college credit program at an art school
Recommendations
Should be pretty good, I would say 7+/10.
Thanks for reading.