<p>Hey all! This is a little bit different, since there's another factor to my chances. I was suspended once in my junior year for 5 days for some crazy things my friends and I did to the school. They were pretty serious (vandalism, damaging school property), and the only reason I only got 5 days was because I was doing so well academically, and I had no past history of ... bad things. I'm pretty worried that this'll hurt my chances. Anyone who's gotten "disciplinary action" have some experience to share in college admissions?</p>
<p>Anyways...</p>
<p>I'm Asian (Chinese), male, suburb in New York state, rising senior</p>
<p>Public high school
My school's GPA is out of 4.5; my GPA is approximately 4.3 or 4.4
Out of 4.0, I think my GPA is 3.8-3.9</p>
<p>APs
World History, English Language, Physics B, US History - all 5
APs I'm taking for Senior year - Psychology, Biology, English Literature, US Government, Macroeconomics, Calculus BC</p>
<p>SAT
Math - 720
Reading - 730
Writing - 540</p>
<p>Total - 1450
With writing - 1990</p>
<p>Gonna retake in October because of my pathetic Writing score.</p>
<p>ACT - 34
math - 36
english - 35
reading - 35
science - 31</p>
<p>SAT II
Math II - 800
World History - 790
English Literature - 650</p>
<p>ECs
My main extra-curricular is table tennis. I've been playing competitively for about 4 years, and have also been a member of the Genesee Valley Table Tennis Club for the same amount of time. It's one of the greatest passions of my life, and I just plain love it. I'm also a member of the Junior Program in the club, and since I'm one of the higher level juniors (aka kids) there, I often help lower level players. Just some advice, drills, and practice; not lessons.
I play quite a bit (9-13 hours a week), if that's important to know.
I've played in USA Table Tennis sanctioned tournaments, and have won some trophies that I can include in my 'awards, honors, etc.' section.
[For those who play table tennis, I'm playing at around a 1700 level now, maybe higher]
I'm not really sure how much info is needed on this. It's one of the things that take up a lot of my time, definitely my favorite sport to play, and is one of the things I'm pretty good at.</p>
<p>I'm also in my school's Varsity Masterminds team, sophomore to present (I'm going to be playing in my senior year too). I think an equivalent of this is Quiz Bowl? It's basically a team trivia competition that faces off between schools in my area in New York state. I'm the top scorer on my team. There's no official team captain, since someone is chosen to be 'captain' when we are in a match, but I've been captain many times.</p>
<p>Tutoring - I've unofficially tutored a lot of my classmates and friends, in a wide variety of subjects. Also helped my older brother study for the physics portion of the MCAT, since I just finished AP Physics and the MCAT tests pretty much the same material.</p>
<p>Volunteer Work
Helping a teacher from another school district that my brother knows set up and prepare various projects and educational games for special ed students. This was throughout junior year. I'm continuing this throughout summer and in my senior year.</p>
<p>Helping set up and clean up tables and barriers for a table tennis tournament hosted by one of our club's officials.
Coaching and refereeing scholastic events (tourny for kids; split into different age groups) at the same tournament.</p>
<p>Working with other students in a group to create podcasts as review materials for our AP US History course throughout junior year. The podcasts covered the entire course, and were available on a website for our classmates to use. A lot of other students found them really helpful for studying for both the midterm and the AP exam.</p>
<p>Employment
Part time job. Small company that distributes and makes specialty lubricants and greases for the vacuum pump industry and other markets (like silicone and manufacturing). Worked from summer of 2007 to present. I've done packaging for some of their products, market/competition research, and office maintenance (pretty much cleaning/vacuuming/mopping/etcetc.)</p>
<p>Honors and Awards
Some significant awards from Table Tennis
- 1st Place Rochester Giant Round Robin Group C 2008
- 1st Place Under-1100 and Under-1300 events at the 2006 Millcreek Open in Erie, Pennsylvania (For those who play table tennis, the u1100 and u1300 events dont seem that great, but when I won those events, I had been only playing for a year and a couple months.)</p>
<p>I've gotten 2 awards for sportsmanship at my club. One was given to one person by the club coach, the other was given to one person by vote (secret ballot) by all the club members.</p>
<p>2 academic scholar excellence awards (i'm not exactly sure of the name), given for maintaining a high GPA throughout the entirety of my high school.</p>
<p>What do you guys think?</p>