<p>Don't plan on getting in any of these, but we'll see.</p>
<p>School is one of newsweek's twenty "public elites". Residential school.Very tough curriculum. 90% of faculty hold PhD's.</p>
<p>Asian male- hopeful econ major. ( will it help that i'm chinese and want to go into econ and poli sci instead of oh.... math, biology, or engineering?)
SAT:1470 (Math/Verbal)</p>
<p>ACT:35superscore (33 highest composite) </p>
<p>GPA: 3.78.unweighted). Heavy downward trend junior year, mainly bc. of very tough courses and adjustment to life away from home.
Counselor Rec- will be very good. He's my student council advisor, and I've built a very strong relationship with him. He's already written a very solid rec for me, so i'm faithful that he'll come through.</p>
<p>Junior Courseload- killed me( i took 8 classes, when all other juniors except 2 took 7)
Semester 1- AP calculus BC, AP Bio, AP Chem, AP US, english 101, Computer Science 101, Solving Complex Math Equations, life and leisure.
Semester 2- all the same classes, except computer science 101 was replaced with AP psychology</p>
<p>Senior year courseload semester 1-Linear Algebra, AP Euro, AP Physics C Mechanics, Gov/econ, AP English lit, East Asian, Research, solving complex equations 2.</p>
<p>Semester 2- Ordinary Differential Equations, Abstract Algebra, AP Euro, AP Phys C E&M, Globalization, AP English Lit, , Solving complex equations 2, and possibly a statistical analysis course using ANOVA. </p>
<p>AP's: Six 4's. One 3. </p>
<p>E.C.'s that i will list-</p>
<p>Leadership-Student Council 2 years-secretary (we only have a secretary and a moderator)
Beta Club President as a junior
Speech team captain as a senior
Math Team treasurer</p>
<p>POSSIBLE HOOK:
**** Founded the GSSM Elementary Science Club. Will Conduct the "Elementary Science and Exploration Series" (ES^2) A series of after school science programs targeted toward underprivileged youth in the I-95 education "corridor of shame"</p>
<p>Selected for the Riley Institute at Furman University's "Emerging public Leaders" i'm pretty sure it was pretty competitive. Maybe 20 spots with people applying from SC and the rest of the country.</p>
<p>Music-
South Carolina Music Teachers Association pre college auditions- 1st place in division 4 (grades 10-12)
Guild of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra Competition- top 10 finalist
Laurence Hamilton Scholarship winner (won in 2003, 2005, 2006)- a regional scholarship worth around $400. won in 2003 as a 12 year old and was the youngest winner in the competitions history.
Limestone College young artist's competitions- 2nd place
Will submit a CD, as well as a superb recommendation.</p>
<p>Speech and Debate-
District competition- 1st place policy debate. Nationals qualifier(but i did horribly at nats)
State Public Forum Debate Champion</p>
<p>Sports-
Varsity Cross Country - 3 years, (team was 3rd this year at state, hopefully 1 next yr)
Varsity Track- 2 years, all region 2007 in the mile, 2 mile, and 4 x 800 meter relay.</p>
<p>Summer plans-
Six week oncology research internship- submitting abstract on various methods of using lymph, spleen, lung, thymus, and liver tissue in order to fight melanoma/cancer in rats.
1 week furman emerging program leaders.</p>