<p>Hi guys! I'm a Vietnamese-American looking for chances for the top schools. This is my opinion on my chances. What do you guys think?
High Reaches: MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford
Mid Reaches/High Matches: Caltech, UPenn, Johns Hopkins
Matches: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD (I'm in-state)
Safeties: UCI, UCSB, and others</p>
<p>Major: Physics or Math
Rank: Top 1%
UW GPA: 3.98<a href="1%20B%209th%20grade">/b</a>
**W GPA: 4.7</p>
<p>SAT: 680 CR / 800 M / 760 W Superscore
Composite: 2240 superscore
SAT II:
Math II - 800
Physics - 790
Chemistry - 750</p>
<p>Senior Courseload: 6 AP classes (11 AP tests total this year). I'm self-studying for 4 more. It's practically the most rigorous in my entire county.
AP Scores:
AP Statistics (5), AP Chemistry (4), AP Physics (5), AP World History (4), AP US History (4)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Music
---- Piano for 7 years (since 5th grade).
---- Flute for 6 years (since 6th grade).
---- Recorder for 7 years (since 5th grade).
---- Guitar for 3 years (since 9th grade).
---- Many awards for my Piano and Flute.
---- 7 hours a week, 51 weeks (all year).</p>
<p>Eagle Scout in Boy Scouts
---- Patrol Leader
---- 8 years (since 5th grade)
---- 5 hours a week, 48 weeks (a few holidays off).</p>
<p>Taekwondo
---- 1st Degree Black Belt
---- Assistant Instructor
---- 8 years (since 5th grade)
---- 6 hours a week, 46 weeks (a few holidays off)</p>
<p>Computer Club
---- Web Designer and Coder
---- 1 year (9th grade)
---- 7 hours a week, 21 weeks.</p>
<p>Cross Country ** and *Track & Field *
---- **JV Captain for 2 years for each.
---- Varsity Letter 12th grade for both sports.
---- 6 years (since 7th grade)
---- 3 hours a day, 21 hours a week, all 52 weeks of the year.</p>
<p>Self-studying
---- My school doesn't offer AP Physics C, so I'm studying that by myself using MITOpenCourseWare to learn and take the two tests. I got a 5 on Physics B and am one of the best Physics kids in my county.
---- I'm also self-studying for two more AP tests for a total of 4 self-studied AP tests. I have 7 AP tests already from my school courses. Despite everything I have, I'm still managing very well in school, in all these APs, and in all my extracurriculars.
---- 7 hours a week, 32 weeks.
---- It also may sound geeky, but I study advanced Mathematics and theoretical physics on my true spare time (usually during the summer and holiday breaks). I've covered a lot of the MITOpenCourseWare lectures for Math.</p>
<p>About 310 hours of Community Service</p>
<p>If you add all those times up, you'll notice I have very very little spare time. I don't have many ECs but for each one of these, I really focus. For any EC that I slacked off in (didn't participate much), I just didn't mention them.</p>
<p>AP Scholar with Distinction
Scholar with Distinction
National Honors Society
3rd place - Physics Bowl 2009
10th place - Chemistry ACS Exam 2008</p>
<p>Teacher and Counselor Recs: Phenomenal (one of the best students ever for my teachers apparently).</p>
<p>It would be the most amazing honor in my life to get into just one of these top schools. Thanks guys!!!</p>