Hey CC, need one last chance with my updated college list…so glad to be finally done!! 
I expect high matches->reaches for the top list and safeties->matches for the bottom.
USC
WashU in St. Louis
Vanderbilt
UCLA
UCB
Cal Poly SLO
Cal Poly Pomona
UCSD
UCI
Occidental
Trinity College
Northeastern
Grinnell
Case Western Reserve University
Stats:
GPA:
UW: 3.57
W: 4.26
9th: 2.9
*Switched schools
10th: 4.15
11th: 4.45
12th: most likely 4.7
ACT: 33 (32E 35M 30R 34S 28W) Superscored: 34 (34E 35M 33R 34S 33W)
SAT II: Math 2 800, Physics 780
Only 6 AP’s by Junior Year: Spanish, APUSH, BIo, Calc AB, Literature, Physics C Mechanics
Extracurriculars: Description, years involved, estimated total hours.
- Vice President and Co-founder of Crops of Love Art Club, an organization that feeds tens of thousands of Africans, 3-4 years, 500-600
- Held annual art exhibitions at museums, raising money and awareness to aid the people in Africa and received congressional awards from my district representative, 3-4 years, 200-300.
- Math tutor and mentor for an academy, 3-4 years, 350 hours.
- Secretary of my Spanish club. 2-3 years, 60?
- Vice President of my MUN club. 2 years, 100.
- started a non-profit system where people over Southern California, collecting up to $3000, 4 years, 200?
- Other volunteer activites from a variety of organizations (PAVA, Habitat for humanity, Midnight Missions), did not collect too many hours so I wont go too deep with that. Wont put as it isn’t significant. only 30 hours total
- Went to the Art Center College of Design for one summer, 1 summer, 40 hours.
- visited Malawi, Africa. Helped feed and teach children, 2 weeks, 140 hours.
Volunteer: over 600 hours
Extracurriculars: over 900 hours, most are art related and school clubs.
*Disclaimer, my ECs are probably the best part of my application. All 10 of my activities were vital to my growth, and I take pride in the 1000 plus hours I have racked up.
Awards:
- Congressional award from the former congressman in my community for service.
- Two congressional awards from the congresswoman in my community (3 in total)
- President’s Award (Gold) for service.
- Outstanding Academic and Leadership award from the council that oversaw the schools I participated in at Malawi.
- National Honor Society Member
Letter of Recs:
- My physics teacher is very close to me and will write a good one.
- Congresswoman knows my record for service and knows me. Plus, she asked me what she should write to highlight my rec even more. :DD
- Average: Math teacher who knows my success in her class. Got 100’s in both semesters.
- Average: APUSH teacher who knows my struggle in history, yet I applied myself and ended with an A.
Essays:
I’m not the strongest writer, but my UC ones was pretty good. I’m average, but I spent all my time on USC, and a college writing pro liked mine.
CommonApp: 9/10 nothing for Me to improve, but I guess it could be if someone went deep enough.
USC Supplement: 8/10 I did in the last week and I liked it but then again, it was a week.
UC: 8.5-9/10 spent a lot of time on it and did what I could.
Occidental: idk bc I copied and pasted from USC
Vanderbilt: 7/10 I liked it at the time, but now I see room for improvement.
Financial issues: my family is low income (40-50k). Need lots of FA.
Other: I’m an Korean male living in Southern California at a Christian school. I have been improving since freshman year, and I want colleges to know that. I know they see my grades, but please acknowledge that I did most of these stats in sophomore and junior year.
thanks CC, just waiting for decisions now. Last chance, I promise haha. Again, will chance back. thanks for reading.
