<p>Chinese-American female, California Bay Area, competitive high school that tends to send a good number of people to upper level UCs and a couple to noteworthy schools - we don't have much of a history at most of the schools on my list (that definitely runs the gamut), mostly for lack of people applying. The school does not rank.</p>
<p>I'm applying as an international relations major, or maybe as a double major also with Near/Middle Eastern studies or Sociology... </p>
<p>Weighted Academic GPA: 3.965
Unweighted Academic GPA: 3.689</p>
<p>Weighted UC GPA: 4.158</p>
<p>My GPA is quite far from extraordinary, mainly because of an undistinguished freshman year and a rather atrocious sophomore year that were sorta patched over by a phenomenal junior year.</p>
<p>Freshman Year:
Geometry Enriched - B/B
Lit - A/A
Biology - A/A
Drama - A/A
PE (non-academic) - B/B
Spanish 2 - B/B
Oral Composition (speech and debate, not UC-acknowledged) - A/A</p>
<p>Sophomore Year:
Algebra 2/Trig - A/A
World Lit - A/A
World History - A/A
Chemistry H - B/B
Spanish 3 - B/C
PE (non-academic) - B/B
Law I/Accounting (2nd sem not academic) - A/A</p>
<p>Junior Year:
Pre-Calculus Honors - A/A
American Lit - A/A
AP USH - A/A
Bio AP - A/A
Law 2 (not academic) - A/A
Oral Composition 2 (still not academic) - A/A</p>
<p>My senior year schedule is confirmed to be: AP English, AP Government/Econ, AP Calculus BC, Vertigo (journalism class), Physics Honors... I'll have taken most but not all of the Honors/AP classes.</p>
<p>Standardized Test Scores: (I have fun with these... as much as anyone can)</p>
<p>SAT I new: 2310 - Math: 710, CR: 800, Writing: 800
SAT IIs: United States History: 800, Biology: 780, Math 2c: 720
I also have World History: 770, Chinese: 750... Should I 'submit' those or the Math one? Being that Math is supposed to be important... I'm not too sure.</p>
<p>APs: Given my performance in the classes and how I felt about the tests... Probably 5 on both AP Bio and APUSH, 4 in the worst case scenario.</p>
<p>I've taken one class at a local community college - General Psychology, for an A/4 credits I think.</p>
<p>National Merit Semifinalist/Finalist standing expected - 227 PSAT score.</p>
<p>Extracurriculurs (assuming planned senior year involvement):
Tzu-Chi Youth Club (community service) - 9
Speech and Debate - 9,10,11,12
- Stanford National Forensic Institute, Varsity Lab - summer, 9
- Calfornia State Semifinalist (14th) Foreign Extemp speaking - 10
- Victory Briefs Institute, Advanced Varsity Lab - summer, 10
- Appointed Team Spontaneous Speech Captain - 11
- Berkeley Invitational Double-octofinalist (tournament of champions bid round) - 11
- Victory Briefs Institute, Advanced Varsity Lab - summer, 11
- Appointed Team Lincoln-Douglas Debate Captain - 12
Model United Nations Club - 11, 12
- Distinguished School Delegation Award, RHSMUN - SFX - 11
Amnesty International Club - 11, 12
Vertigo (literary magazine) staff writer - 12
Mock Trial - Pretrial Attorney - 12</p>
<p>Employment/Volunteering:
Volunteer, Guidepost Gospel Church Vacation Bible School - Summer, 10
Work, Vision Explorer day camp/learning center - Summer, 11</p>
<p>Where I'm applying (list liable to being cut-down significantly, because it really is too many):</p>
<p>All the UCs (same application for all of them, so that one's easy)
Georgetown - Walsh School of Foreign Service*
Tufts University*
Johns Hopkins University*
Claremont Mckenna College
Pomona College
Smith College
Amherst College
George Washington University
Scripps College
Pitzer College</p>
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<li>= One of these will be my early decision/action choice, pending an actual visit. </li>
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<p>I pretty much know that Georgetown SFS is an extreme reach (I know GTown in general is at least moderately fond of valedictorians and the SFS fond of polyglots, and I am quite obviously neither.) The rest, I really have no clue about, with my major in mind. I'm especially curious about the upper UCs... And also wondering whether I should submit a stronger World History SAT II score or my sorta average 2c score. </p>
<p>Thanks for any input.</p>