Hey,
I would love it if anybody could chance me on some of my top schools?
In descending order:
Barnard College
NYU
UCLA
Northeastern
Cornell
Boston College
USC
GPA:
3.8/4 unweighted (I’m currently a junior and this is from my sophomore and freshman years)
(My school does not report weighted)
CLASSES: (APs only allowed junior and senior years)
FRESHMAN
Geometry/Algebra 2H (highest lane)
Biology H (highest lane)
English 9A (highest lane)
Spanish 2 (one lane)
Photography
World History (one lane)
SOPHOMORE:
Algebra 2/Trig H (2nd highest lane)
Govmt./Contemporary World (one lane)
School publication prerequisite
English 10A (highest lane)
Spanish 3H (highest lane)
Chemistry H (highest lane)
JUNIOR:
Intro to Analysis/Calc (2nd highest lane)
AP Environmental Science
English 10H (highest lane)
AP US History
Newspaper
Yearbook
SAT:
2200 (took in early October of 2015 as a junior)
EC’S: (stats by senior year: 2017)
Judo - 4 years
Track and Field - 2 years
Real Estate Intern - 2 years
Newspaper - 2 years (will be an editor senior year)
Yearbook - 2 years (will be an editor senior year)
Key club - 2 years (will be secretary senior year)
2 internships for app/tech marketing - 1 summer, 1 year
Board Member and volunteer at Animal Assisted Happiness (use animal therapy to help disabled children)
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Summer Program - 3 years (Bunked at LMU, will be rooming at Princeton for my last year )
Taught myself how to code, used coding to create a blog to post my writing/photos (1000+ followers)
I have a connection to Facebook, so this summer I’ll potentially/maybe/hopefully intern there.
HOOKS:
Mom immigrated from Vietnam after the Vietnam War, 1st in her family to go to college.
Bilingual (English and Vietnamese)
OTHER INFORMATION:
Intended Major: Business/Communications
Home State: CA
Gender: Female
Race/Ethnicity: Vietnamese American (Some people say I should apply as white while others advised that I use my biracialism as a hook, so if anyone has any thoughts on that, please let me know!)
Income: Lower end of high income bracket (think 1,000 sq.ft. house in extremely affluent neighborhood)
Thanks for any help that you might be able to give!