<p>Stanford is my number one choice.. And I will be applying restrictive early action. I have met both the Regional Admissions officer who is going to be reading my app and the Dean of Admissions. Thanks for taking the time to read this! </p>
<p>Other schools im applying to: harvard, yale, u penn, northwestern, columbia(second choice), cornell, wellesley, berkeley, ucla, usc</p>
<p>Asian Female</p>
<p>Will be applying undecided (will this hurt me?). I go to a super competitive public school in the suburbs of los angeles , #89 in the nation, dominated by asians like myself..</p>
<p>GPA: 3.85 (unweighted), 4.72 (weighted) I have had about 7 B's in all... But almost every class I've taken has been AP/honors and I have taken many after schools, summer schools, etc.. i'm in the top 4% of my school, and my senior classhas more than 800 students! which puts me in the top 20ish out of 800ish :)</p>
<p>Senior Workload:
Statistics AP
Physics C AP
Literature AP
French 4 AP
Government AP
Economics AP
Advanced Orchestra
Scientific Research</p>
<p>SAT I</p>
<p>1st time: 2110
2nd time: 2200
3rd time: 2340
(i hope the upward trend helps!)</p>
<p>SAT II</p>
<p>Korean: 790
Math 2: 790
Biology: 700
US History: 670
Chemistry: 740</p>
<p>AP's (here's where it might hurt... :( )
Envi Sci: 4
Chemistry: 4
US History: 3 (soo weird i was one of the few people who got A's both semesters)
Calc AB: 4
Biology: 4</p>
<p>Awards:</p>
<p>Korean Essay Competition Winner, Got Published
National Honors Society
AP Scholar with Distinction
California Scholarship Federation
Math Honors Society
French Honors Society
Music Honors Society
National Merit Commended
Honorable Mention, Environmental Science category, Regional Science Fair</p>
<p>Sports:
JV Lacrosse for one year, wont even mention it because frankly i hated it</p>
<p>Leadership:</p>
<p>President/Board Member of a 40 year old service club on campus for 4 years
Concertmistress of regional orchestra
2nd Violin Principal Stand of school advanced orchestra
Activities Director of school orchestra</p>
<p>Volunteer:
hundreds of hours doing various things as part of service club
worked at senior house
part of string quartet that played therapy music for hospital
researcher for a land conservancy </p>
<p>Jobs:</p>
<p>Intern at software company and worked on web programming and graphic design
Private tutor for various subjects
party promoter (lol)
fashion journalist for various paper&online publications
freelance dj mostly for friends' parties</p>
<p>Other things that make me stand out:</p>
<p>-I am a pretty serious violinist (but won't be majoring) and have won two consecutive first places at southwestern youth music festival, attended a music clinic at stanford, been part of numerous orchestras, performed with grammy artists, been concertmistress, etc....</p>
<p>-my dad went to stanford graduate with a ph.d</p>
<p>-i have a 4 year old brother who i have the privilege of taking care of the most..</p>
<p>-i am heavily immersed in culture and very involved in music, art, etc of the los angeles scene. i dj and write professionally about fashion and art. i think that's kind of unusual about a female, asian stanford applicant. most of my friends are not the strongest academics and i have an interesting background/mindset in terms of the stuff i am interested in nonacademically. in that sense i think i bring a tremendous amount of diversity</p>
<p>-i am fluent in french thanks to a mother who is a french major and had a french student stay at my house for several weeks for an exchange program</p>
<p>-i have done independent science research since junior year. one year i did a study on the use of cursorial arthropods as bioindicators of restoration success, and currently i am studying the effects of tactile&electrical stimulation, as well as supersaturated oxygen on the bioluminescence of renilla reniformis (sea pansies!)</p>
<p>wow i got carried away. but thanks for reading :)</p>