<p>Rank: No rank
GPA: 3.9 (unweighted) (4.6 weighted)
Gender/Race: Asian male
School: Public school, pretty big.</p>
<p>AP/Honors courses:
Freshman: AP US History, Honors Chemistry, Honors English, Honors Algebra 2
Sophomore: AP Chemistry, AP Government, Honors Biology, Precalculus Honors, Honors English
Junior: AP World History, AP Biology, AP BC Calculus, AP Language (English), Honors Latin 3, Honors Physics
Senior Year Courses: English AP Literature, AP Physics, Multivariable and Differential Equations (math), Honors Latin 4, Orchestra</p>
<p>SAT I: Didn't take it yet because I felt I wasn't ready
PSAT: 210 (Shut up, xD)</p>
<p>SAT II:
Math II - 800
Chem - 770</p>
<p>APs
AP US History -4
AP Chemistry - 5</p>
<p>EC's and some stuff to keep in mind.</p>
<p>-I started our school's first biology club. (Founder/president)</p>
<p>-I have been only in USA for 5 years. That's why my GPA is pretty low, because I got 2 B's in my freshman year. I've gotten straight As ever since, so I think it shows a good trend.</p>
<ul>
<li>Not too many service hours, (152 or something)</li>
</ul>
<p>-I interned at National Eye Institute of National Institutes of Health (NIH) beginning 10th grade. And it really wasn't a personal connections thingy...</p>
<ul>
<li><p>I will be co-authoring a paper about the discovery of glucagon and glucagon like peptides in SRA and ARPE cells (eye cells) and their functions</p></li>
<li><p>I got into Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar program, which selects 20 people in our whole county. I will work at NIH again this year through this program, so a different lab in NIH now. (Now I'll be at FDA Hemistasis lab).</p></li>
<li><p>I was selected to attend Howard Hughes special lecture given by professors from Harvard, which selects only 2 students from each school</p></li>
<li><p>3rd place in Mid-Atlantic area in Chemistry Olympiad (I don't think I can put this in my resume, because this is what my teacher told me and I didn't get a plaque or anything)</p></li>
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<p>Other things:</p>
<p>-Member of Science national honor society, national honor society, and chemistry club.</p>
<p>-Member of Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra philharmonic, which is the highest level of MCYO</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Second place in Springs Festival (violin award)</p></li>
<li><p>First place in Maryland Piano concerto competition, and played Piano Mendelssohn Concerto with the orchestra at the concert</p></li>
<li><p>First place in Maryland Spriggs Festival (piano)</p></li>
<li><p>First place in Montgomery County Hayes award</p></li>
<li><p>From this award, I received 350 dollars, which I donated all to a limp cancer patient. I was starred in the newspaper, and was starred again as a thank you note after he was fully healed.</p></li>
<li><p>First place in Maryland Gottlieb Piano Competition</p></li>
<li><p>I'm thinking of sending a recording of college which consists of:</p>
<ul>
<li>Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto</li>
<li>Bach Fugue (Violin piece)</li>
<li>Mendelssohn Violin Concerto</li>
<li>Brahms Rhapsody (piano piece)</li>
<li>Grieg Piano concerto</li>
<li>Bach Prelude & Fugue (piano piece)</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<p>Essays: haven't really started xD</p>
<p>Hoping to major in Medicine</p>
<p>So yeah...as you can see, I'm not that smart xD. So I'm not gonna be stupid and apply to all HYPS. But, here are some that might be ridiculous out of reach...so I hope you guys can help me out here! =)</p>
<p>Dream Schools( by rank):
Brown PLME program (Eight-year medical program)
UPenn
Harvard</p>
<p>Schools I will apply to:
Early: Brown PLME (Early decision), MIT, Caltech
Regular: Upenn, Penn state, Harvard, George Washington (eight year med program), Maryland, Boston University (8-year medical program), Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Any comment would be awesome. And I love harsh criticisms.</p>