<p>Please read this and tell me how my chances are it would really mean a lot to me and i'm currently freaking out.
Ok so the story is i'm applying early decision to Duke and early action to UMich. As of now, i'm mainly relying on my extracurriculars to compensate for my low GPA. But anyways, here goes:</p>
<p>btw, one of my brothers/sisters is graduate from Duke so hopefully that will help me</p>
<p>Personal Info: i'm a first generation asian in a largely white/jewish district</p>
<p>GPA: 93 - unweighted 96 - weighted. i'm not sure what it is on the 4.0 scale sorry lol. Also, about my gpa, my Freshman and Sophomore years were bad like 91s-93s but in my Junior Year I received 95s,96s.</p>
<p>SAT: 2230 superscored. 720 reading 790 math 720 writing.
2220 single time 720 reading 780 math 720 writing.</p>
<p>SAT 2's: 740: Biology 770: Math 2c</p>
<p>APS: 5 in AP Euro, 4 in APUSH, 4 in AP Biology. I'm currently enrolled in 4 more aps (Psych, Economics Macro/Micro, Calc AB, Spanish)</p>
<p>Recommendations: I'm receiving two recommendations from close teachers that i've had for 2+ years in a row for AP courses. I'm also receiving a detailed recommendation from Councilman of my town (town i'm guessing a few hundred thousand people) as well as a recommendation from a governor in China (won't specify due to personal details) </p>
<p>Extracurriculars: (I left out a lot of less-important stuff. sorry about the crappy format, it should be consistent though)</p>
<p>President and Founder of Recycling Initiative, 11th and 12th:
- Completely student run with about 20+ members
- Started mid junior year with close friend. Recycled well over 20000 cans and bottles and received over $1000 in about 5 months.
- All proceeds go to Nature Conservancy.
- Presented program plan to district administrators, 60+ professors, school principal, faculty, and received approval for district-wide implementation. Has now spread to other schools and currently in talks with other schools.
-I spent my friday nights with other members making and painting over 250 cardboard boxes to place in individual rooms.<br>
-Over 10+ hours per week including out of school</p>
<p>Vice President (9th,11th) Student Government, 9th-12th:<br>
- Elected Homecoming prince by peers
- Spent countless hours on student government related things (which you guys should already know) </p>
<p>President(12th) and Secretary(11th) of Tri-M Music Honor Society, 9th-12th:<br>
- Created fundraiser and raised over $2000 for local jazz museum.
- Had starbucks sponsor our fundraisers
- I created and currently play Alto Saxophone in a funk band that performs in gigs/fundraiser in and out of school. </p>
<p>Deputy Supervisor (VP)(12th) and Town Clerk(11th) of Town Youth Council, 9th-12th:
- Raised over $7000 in two years for local family health center during holidays.
- Coordinated various fundraisers and also created scholarship for volunteers within the community
- This is basically an organization dedicated towards community/volunteer-based events
- Use microsoft excel to manage attendance of 60+ members</p>
<p>President(12th) and Publicity Officer(11th) of Business Honor Society, 11th-12th:
- Created fundraisers within club to collect used cellphones and canned foods in business classrooms</p>
<p>Executive Board Member(12th) of Model United Nations:
- Won Outstanding Delegate in multiple conferences. Chosen with 4 others in conferences to attend next round of conferences.</p>
<p>Peer Ambassadors, 11th-12th:
- Selected along with 19 other students in the entire school by teachers in a newly created program to help stop bullying and other forms of harrassment in school.
- Take workshops in bullying
- Gave lectures to freshmen about bullying</p>
<p>Athletics: I've played lacrosse since the 4th grade. Starting attackmen on JV as Sophomore and moved up to JV as a freshman. I was on a Swim team from 4th-8th grade that had practices everyday.</p>
<p>Music: Alto saxophone from 3rd-12th grade. Piano from 1st-5th grade. Received gold medals and 98s/99s in all of my music festivals but I won't go into detail with that.
- I'm constantly first chair in every thing that im in including my school jazz band and cross campus wind ensemble
- i've performed in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fischer Hall in Lincoln Center Twice.</p>
<p>Other info/clubs: member of national honor society, spanish honor society, peer teachers, and a regional winner and state finalist in DECA in public speaking category. </p>
<p>Work Experience: Intern at an assemblywoman's office of the state for one year so far. Intern at a prestigious world-famous science laboratory during the summer. I also worked at an animal farm lol</p>
<p>That's basically the most of it but yeah thanks for reading if you got this far</p>