<p>So I'm applying to UChicago EA but I'm a bit nervous and I'd like some chances/advice. Thanks for reading!</p>
<p>***General Stuff:
Gender: Female
Race: Asian
State: MA
Income: Upper-middle class</p>
<p>***Academics:
GPA: 8.67/9.0 (My school has a weird GPA system, so I'll post my classes/grades here too, not including electives. We're not allowed to take any honors classes besides math until sophomore year and no AP classes until junior year. And it's almost completely impossible to have a 9.0 GPA... it requires A's in all honors/AP classes and has only been done like, twice at my school. Oh, and we don't have A+'s. School is a fairly competitive public school.)</p>
<p>Freshman Year:
Honors Math: A-
Intro Physics: A
World History I: A
English: A-
French: A</p>
<p>Sophomore Year:
Honors Math: A-
Honors Chem: A
Honors World History II: A
Honors English: A-
Honors French: B+</p>
<p>Junior Year:
Honors Math: A
AP Biology: A
AP US History: A-
Honors English: B+
AP French: B
**Note: I had mono this year so I'll probably mention that so explain my kinda low grades</p>
<p>Senior Year (no grades yet, obviously =D):
AP Calc BC
AP Chem
AP Physics
Honors East Asian History
Honors Philosophy as Literature
AP Comp Gov as an independent study (but with a teacher in the school, so it'll show up on my transcript and she'll write a small note to go with my app explaining the class)</p>
<p>SAT I:
First time: 2270 (770CR/800M/700W)
Second time: 2340 (800CR/740M/800W)
Superscore: 2400</p>
<p>SAT II:
Math II: 800
US History: 780
Bio: 770
World History: 720
Math I: 740
(World history and Math I I took in 10th grade and I'm not sure if I'm even sending them in to places that allow score choice..)</p>
<p>***ECs:
Science Team- 3 years- I'm both overall President and Science Olympiad Captain. (We participate in 7 competitions each year and each competition has its own captain in addition to an overarching president and VP for the entire team.) I was also a member of the 2009 Massachusetts Science Olympiad Team to Nationals.</p>
<p>Model UN- 4 years- I've gone to two Harvard Model UN conferences and I'm a head delegate.</p>
<p>French Club- 4 years- Co-president this year. (The club pretty much failed this past year so my friend and I are bringing it back from the dead. =D)</p>
<p>Piano- 13 years- Current student at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School</p>
<p>***Work/Volunteer:
Street canvasser with MASSPIRG (I didn't last very long though, since I failed to meet their daily fundraising quota of $115... should I even bother putting this down?)</p>
<p>Research assistant in a Neurobiology lab at Harvard Medical last summer</p>
<p>Volunteer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute last summer</p>
<p>Teacher assistant at my Chinese school (for 5th grade Chinese, middle school algebra, and watercolor for 8-10 year olds)- 2 and a half years</p>
<p>Service trip with my Chinese school to a small city in China. We fundraised money beforehand to provide as scholarships to underprivileged high school students and spent a week living at this school on the trip.</p>
<p>Big Brother, Big Sister program this year.</p>
<p>Volunteer at a local hospital starting next week too.</p>
<p>***Other Random Summer Activities
Six-week classes in Cognitive Neuroscience and World History at Junction, a summer program that's part of MIT's ESP</p>
<p>Participated in CTY</p>
<p>***Awards:
National French Contest- two honorable mentions and one bronze</p>
<p>State Science Olympiad: 2nd in Ecology and 6th in Elevated Bridge</p>
<p>AP Scholar</p>
<p>Also got a "commendation" for a school-wide essay contest... but I'm not sure if that's worth putting in.</p>