<p>Ethnicity: Chinese[Taiwan descent]/Japanese
Gender: F
Location: California
College Class Year: 2012
High School: Public
High School Type: 60% Asian, Suburban, Very Competitive-- lots of students to top tier schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>
<p>Academics:
GPA - Unweighted: 3.35 [euhajfdksfj ): but my ACT is pree good]
Weighted - 3.54 [not sure if correct-- will need to recalculate not at 3AM lol]
GPA - Weighted: 0.00
Class Rank: top 50%
Class Size: 386/810</p>
<p>Scores:
SAT I Math: 760
SAT I Critical Reading: 630
SAT I Writing: 670
SAT I Total: 2060
ACT: 32
SAT II World History: 540 [lol, tried it for fun]
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 740
SAT II Biology - M: 670</p>
<p>ECs [i'm pretty sure i'm missing some or putting up the non BSed ones lol]:
Art - 1 year -
Drama - 1 year [Best Actress Award lol]
Journalism - 2 years [Assistant Photo Editor 1 year]
Leadership positions: Culinary Club - President [2 years]
American Red Cross Society - Historian [2 years]
Japanese Culture Club Historian - [1 year]</p>
<p>Volunteer/Service Work:
Key Club [2 years]
Senior Home - [2 years]
Honors and Awards: Principal's Honor Roll
National Merit Scholarship Semi-finalist</p>
<p>Jobs:
Internship at Tuxton's/Lynn's Concepts for one summer
Job at Afterschool as a Teacher's Aide [helped out with hw and teaching]</p>
<p>Colleges of Interest: [MAJOR: BUSINESS MANAGEMENT/ACCOUNTING/FINANCE | 2ND MAJOR/MINOR: CULINARY ARTS]</p>
<p>Cornell U [LOL--just for fun] [Hotel Management]
NYU [Dream School but may not go for undergrad because of cost]
Ithaca College
SUNY Binghamton [mom went for graduate studies i thinkkk]
SUNY Stony Brook [one of the backups if NYU is too expensive]</p>
<p>UCI
UCLA
UCB
UCR
UCSB
Chapman U
USC</p>
<p>My UC essays are fine-- one maybe a little off topic
I like my Chapman/USC/Common App Essays
Cornell Supplement-- meh.</p>
<p>By the way, is it smarter to just go to a public school for my undergrad studies then transfering into NYU-- it's my dream school and I already know that I probably have a low chance of getting into it.</p>