i’m 15, sophomore, asian female from california.
hooks:
- legacy at columbia (dream school, planning on applying to columbia ED)
stats:
- 1410 on psat, 1550 on sat (retaking in march)
- 3.99 unweighted, 4.5 weighted
- 200+ volunteer hours
- school doesn’t give rankings, but around top 10%
classes:
- taking ap euro and all available honors classes
- self-studying ap psych and apush
- committed to ib (most challenging courseload at my school)
junior yr classes:
- ap calc ab (ib math hl)
- ib english hl
- ap chem (ib chem hl)
- tok/econ
- publications (school newspaper & ybk)
- spanish 3 honors (ib spanish sl)
- ib bio sl
senior yr classes:
- ib math hl
- ib english hl
- ib chem hl
- tok/gov
- publications
- ib history sl
- ap spanish 4 (ib spanish sl)
ecs:
- executive officer of fbla (first place sweeps, personally won first at state and regional twice)
- executive officer for rotary interact club (recognized/awarded by city council members for work in club)
- editor in chief of nspa all-american finalist and cspa gold crown ybk
- individually placed top 10 in california for nspa news writing and design
- presented at national nspa journalism conference
- organized benefit collab, donating $500+ to international charity
- student government
- usa fencing all-american and all-academic team, attended summer nationals, junior olympics, and 3 north american cups
- hoby finalist, national honor society and california scholarship federation member
- yale young global scholars summer program