<p>female; chinese; sophomore</p>
<p>GPA: weighted 4.63, unweighted 4.00
Rank: 1/518</p>
<p>PSAT (practice): 206 i plan to take the official one next yr</p>
<p>SAT II’s: math 1 750; plan to take math 2, us history, world history, chem, bio
AP’s: AP World History and Calc. AB/BC this yr, AP Bio, US History and Chinese next yr, AP Chemistry and Stats senior yr</p>
<p>SAT: yet to take</p>
<p>EC’s:
mock trial team: 9th-12th…maybe all-star lawyer this yr or next yr
theatre club: 9th grade
art club: 10th grade
chinese club: 10th-12th (founder, president)
dance team: 10th-12th
Future Business Leaders of America: 9th-12th
SGA: 9th (senator)
Freshmen club: 9th
Sophomore club: 10th
National Honor’s Society: plan to be in 11th-12th</p>
<p>Honors:
Won 1st in Washington Metro. Area Chinese Public Speech contes (8th grade)
National Acheivement Academy Math Award (9th)
National Acheivement Academy English Merit Award (10th)
National Acheivement Academy Leadership and Service Award (10th)
All-American Scholar Award (9th)
Presidential Education Award thingy…(8th)
National Honor Roll (10th)
1st in hip-hop division of mid-atlantic dance championships (10th)
2nd in open division of mid-atlantic dance championships (10th)
3rd in jazz division of mid-atlantic dance championships (10th)
mock trial team won 5th in regionals (9th)
3rd in regional FBLA writing and language contest (9th)
level 11 in National Piano Playing Auditions
will get Presidential Service Bronze award (10th)</p>
<p>Work/Volunteer/others:
Student teacher at local Chinese School’s bilingual class (10th- )
Volunteer at hospital (10th- )
Volunteer at Retirement home (9th)
Piano (6 yrs so far…by the time i apply for college…8 yrs)
Dance (2 yrs so far…by the time i apply for college…4yrs)</p>
<p>great chance, keep it up</p>
<p>Keep up the good grades; colleges hate to see a declining trend. You should aim to take more AP courses than that, especially if you attend a competitive high school. Are you taking a math course junior year?</p>
<p>Other than that, you're on that right track!</p>
<p>actually my high school is one of those "unknown" ones in the middle of nowhere, where 1-2 people can make it to an ivy league...if at all.</p>
<p>um...i'm taking regular Stats and Prob. my junior yr...i would take AP Stats and Prob. then too, however, i can't seem to cram it into my schedule.
O, and i forgot to add: AP Lit senior yr.</p>
<p>Speaking of AP's, how many AP's does UPenn usually look for in their applicants?</p>
<p>Rural and Maryland may help, may not. Penn sees a lot of applications from our state, but a lot in my area (Montgomery County/DC suburbs) so being from the middle of nowhere may sepparate you from the applicants form my area. About APs, Penn wants to see that you are taking hard classes offered by your school, so if your school offers 5, try to take all 5. If your school offers over 20, Penn does not expect you to take them all. Also, if out of the 5 APs offered, if 3 are in languages you don't study, Penn won't penalize you for that either. I came from a school offering 20+ APs and only took 7. I have classmates who took 7 in one school year (he is going to Yale).</p>
<p>would penn accept calc. III?</p>
<p>A little early to be talking about this. Try to get the SAT's up - they get a lot of Asian applicants so above 2100 would be preferable - 2200 wouldn't hurt either. Play up the hip hop dancing - they'll like that. Play down the piano - too stereotypical Asian. Overall you want to "sell" yourself as not being exactly like the other several thousand Asian applicants that they get.</p>
<p>lol, thx guys!</p>
<p>any more suggestions?</p>
<p>much appreciated!</p>