<p>-Korean-American Male
-Junior (Class of '08/'12)
-@ a public high school that sends some grads to top schools
-@ Valley Stream (Long Island), New York
-will apply for financial aid</p>
<p>GPA (Fresh, Soph, 3/5 Jr.) - 96.540(U)/101.540(W)
- (estimated final weighted) 107.5
Rank - 2/~365 (might go up, but I know it won't drop)</p>
<p>SAT I - 1410/2090 (CR650 M760 W680)
- (10/06) 1310/1990 (CR600 M710 W680)
- (01/07) 1410/2060 (CR650 M760 W650)
- will take it a 3rd and last time after studying over the summer (aiming for 2200+)</p>
<p>SAT II (won't be able to reatke before EA)
- U.S. 780
- MathIIC 740
- Chem 700</p>
<p>AP
- Euro 4
- Chem (expected) 4/5
- APUSH (expected) 5
- English (expected) 3/4
- Stats (expected) 3/4/5</p>
<p>The courses I took were of the highest difficulty. The only classes that were not Acclerated (no honors at our district) were band, gym/health, and languages (accelerated only given to native speakers).</p>
<p>JHU Pre-college (5 weeks) this summer. I'm taking a poli sci course and an econ course to see if I want to do IR; it'll be 6 college credits.</p>
<p>Badminton Club (9; menial, but it' the only real athletic thing I have... I would've kept it, but the HS didn't have a boys' team nor did it have the club)
Newspaper Club (9) / Crier Newspaper (10,11newseditor,<em>12layouteditor)
Concert Band, 2nd seat tuba (9,10,11,</em>12)
Marching Band, sousaphone (10,11,<em>12)
Mathletes (9,10,11,</em>12president)
Quiz Bowl (10,<em>12?)
Class of 08 (10,11,</em>12)
Science Honor Society (10,11,<em>12position)
National Honor Society (11,</em>12)
Mu Alpha Theta (11,<em>12)
Tri-M Music Honor Society (11,</em>12)
National Junior Honor Society (9electedcandle-lighter)
Language Honor Society (Spanish, Sign Language, Japanese) (11,12)</p>
<p>200+ hr. of volunteering at local hospital (summers and falls of '05, '06)
~50 hr. of Sign Language shows for Christmas, Lights On, Lanaguage Week (9,10,*12)
~100+ hr. for tutor and honor societies' community service
negligible (2) hours for friend's mom</p>
<p>District Concert Band (by audition), 2nd seat tuba (11)
High Honor Roll (1x/MP,9,10,11,<em>12)
Principal's Award (9)
AMC (11schoolhighscore,</em>12)
All American Scholar (11)
Mathletes School/District Top Scorer (9,10,11; always at least top 2 at school, and top 3 in District)
induction into various honor societies (jr., nat'l, MMM, MAO, sci, lang)
...and a plethora of other menial in-school awards</p>
<p>My passion is language. I've demostrated this by scheduling finishing the Spanish, American Sign Langauge, and Japanese sequence at my high school (I actually petitioned for Japanese 2 next year). I also speak Korean at home and have started to learn Chinese characters used in Korean -- I plan to learn 1000. I plan on having one of my essays describe the roots and reason for this passion and my relationship with my mother.</p>
<p>My guidance counselor thinks this passion is outstanding, and I think she'll write about it in her rec. Auditionally, my Spanish teacher (head of the langauge department), will write me one. I hope he's able to capture the drive I have for language.</p>