<p>Hi - I'm very worried about next year's college application process - and thought I should seek out some advice from this website after seeing my friend use it.</p>
<p>I'm currently a junior at a private school.</p>
<p>GPA: Accumulated 3.9</p>
<p>Honor courses:
Junior year: AP Physics, AP English Lang, AP US History, AP CompSci AB</p>
<pre><code> Senior year: AP Euro, AP English Lit, AP Stats, AP Calc BC, AP Chem
+ Independent study for CompSci (more in-depth studies of software
programming)
</code></pre>
<p>I can speak Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fluently. Planning to take the SAT IIs for all three of them.</p>
<p>I just took the SATs last week (expecting about a 2200..)
I'm planning to take the SAT IIs for Physics and Chemistry in fall.</p>
<p>EC:</p>
<p>Clubs:
MUN: sophomore, junior & senior year
NHS: sophomore, junior & senior year
Homecoming: sophomore, junior & senior year
Ambassadors: junior & senior year
Math and Science club: junior & senior year
... etc</p>
<p>Officer titles:
President of NHS
Leader of a service club
Leader of MUN </p>
<p>Tutoring:
physics to 9th graders (4 of them)</p>
<p>Music:
I'm really passionate about music. I played the flute for 9 years, trombone for 3, oboe for 2, guitar for 4, and know how to play others such as bassoon & tuba. My strength is oboe (regional honor band, international honor band, solo rating 5/5 on Mozart's Oboe Quartet K.370, ensemble rating 5, etc.) I participate in symphonic orchestras and pit orchestras. I've also taken part of a student-oriented orchestra comprised of about 20 members - performing selections such as Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 (although the difficulties of orchestral parts are by no means to be compared to that of the piano part.)</p>
<p>Community Service:<br>
cooking for homeless people every weekend
teaching computers to people twice a month
street clean-ups once a month
nursery near a hospital few times a month
spent sophomore year summer working at a mentally
handicapped people's workplace.
spending this summer doing all of the above.</p>
<p>Contests (I think these are kind of unnecessary because I've never won anything in them):
Participated in the regional math contest freshmen, sophomore, and junior year.</p>
<p>Interests:
Sciences - especially computer science and physics (I haven't taken chemistry yet.) Taking independent study for Compsci about softwares. Projects that can be submitted are: my original O/S, bunch of useful programs for studying, and random games (again, the games seem rather unnecessary.) I also learn more about physics from a teacher on weekends.</p>
<p>Weaknesses:
no awards. no EC during freshmen year. Missing half of freshmen year due to transferring from different school systems. I've never been to any summer camps in highschool - and I didn't apply to any this year either, because of family's financial problems (the tuition comes from the company - but they don't provide any for camps.)</p>
<p>I want to apply to engineering schools - my top choices would be MIT, Stanford, Caltech and Harvey Mudd; I also have about dozens more in mind. I'm also not too knowledgeable when it gets to colleges - so it'll be wonderful if you could suggest me some!</p>
<p>What are some things I can do to bolster my resume? What are the odds of getting into my top choices?</p>