I want to apply as a computer engineering or computer science major in UCLA, UCSD, CalPoly, and UF. Those are some of my reach schools as of now.
SAT: 570 CR 720 M 540 W (Composite: 1830) - I’m planning to retake in October
SAT II: Planning to take Math Level II, Japanese, and Chemistry
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.3
School rank: #1
AP Exams: Japanese Language (5), Calc AB (4), Lang (3), US History (3)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Computer Science, AP US Gov, AP Lit, AP Chem, Robotics Engineering, Model UN
ECs:
-Brain Bowl (Captain, 4 years)
-Graphic Designing (Created official soccer logo and JROTC emblem for my school, designed class T-shirts, help Yearbook Committee)
-Student 2 Student (Treasurer, 3 years, this is basically a club to help new students)
-Tennis (varsity, 2 years)
-Venture Scouts (4 years, Treasurer, co-ed version of Boy Scouts)
Those are just my main ones, I’ve been in a lot of other clubs, but I wasn’t too committed to them.
Volunteering:
-Tutoring high school and middle school students
-American Red Cross (Web Manager)
-Drug Education For Youth Program (Teen Mentor)
-Student Council
-Key Club (Vice President and founder)
Around 250 hours per year
Job/Work Experience:
-KUMON (teaching kids math)
Awards/Honors:
-Principals Honor Roll - 4 years
-National Honor Society (One of the 5 selected out of 80)
-STEM Day Award (received recognition from NCIS forensics department)
-Microsoft Certifications in Word and PowerPoint
-Excellence in Chemistry Award
-Student of the Month chosen by science department
-Excellence in Chinese Award
Other activities I was a part of (educational prep programs??):
-Harvard Model Congress Asia (basically a huge Model UN conference in Hong Kong)
-Far East STEMinar (program where selected number of students get to experience STEM careers and activities first hand; I was part of the computer science session)
-LinguaFest (Chinese immersion program)
-National Youth Leadership Training
-Math Field Day
Notes:
-At my school, we aren’t allowed to take AP classes until our junior year
-I also want to note that I live in Japan, but I am an American citizen and I go to a DoDDS school. It makes it a bit harder to find many English-speaking opportunities for internships and such. Getting a job is hard as well!!
-My school does not have a very good reputation; I believe we failed an accreditation inspection a few years ago. Our teachers are not good at all, so I had to study my butt off to pass all my AP exams!! I feel like that’s also why my SAT scores are so low.
