<p>Asian (Chinese)
Californian Resident
Planned Major: Business (Accounting)
Applied Regular Decision</p>
<p>Top 100 in the country's high school. Very competitive magnet high school. Not sure if it makes a difference though. >> It did half kill me, going there.</p>
<p>my school's transcripts gives TWO GPA's, these are Academic only
GPA 9th-12th (unweighted): 3.47
GPA 9th- 12th (weighted): 4.13
GPA 10th-12th (unweighted): 3.32
GPA 10th- 12th (weighted): 4.0</p>
<p>Total GPA (9-12) (unweighted): 3.52
Total GPA (9-12) (weighted): 4.12</p>
<p>UC GPA: 3.6-3.7</p>
<p>School doesn't rank but I know I'm in the 30th percentile.</p>
<p>SAT I:
CR: 800
Math: 670/700 (T.T failure Asian, failure at math :])
Writing: 690/730
Highest one sitting: 2200
Highest composite: 2230</p>
<p>SAT II's:
Bio/E: 660 (bad, I know)
Math IIC: 690 (T.T fail, I know)
US History: 730
Literature: 650/720 (No idea why theres such a big difference)</p>
<p>APs:
Comp Sci A 3 (bleh)
European History 3 (also bleh)
US History 5
English Language 5</p>
<p>Plan to take Bio, Lit, Gov, Econ, Calc this year</p>
<p>Awards (weak here):
Principle's Honor Roll
Honor Roll
California Scholarship Federation member
AP Scholar with Honor
National Merit Commended Scholar (215 :[)</p>
<p>Extracurricular (pretty weak here too)
Swim 10th and 11th, JV
Leo Club 11th 12th grade
Tzu Chi (Taiwanese global community service/volunteer organization) 10th 11th 12th grade
Go/Chinese Chess Club 11th 12th grade
Summer Internship at NOC SELPA (North Orange County Special Education Local Plan blah ><): basically I helped to design and implement curriculum for autistic and special needs middle school children.</p>
<p>All of my community service is probably no more than 120 hours ><</p>
<p>Teacher Rec: One should be decent to pretty good (math), the other should be average to decent (english).</p>
<p>Essays: I would like to think these are pretty strong >< but some of my other classmates wrote pretty DARN GOOD essays.</p>
<p>One essay was about my experience in school in China. I talked about how it made me more independent. It was a pretty strong essay (I hope).</p>
<p>I also wrote a short paragraph noting that I had a reaaaally big drop in my GPA sophmore year (2.8 GPA) because after I came back from China, I wasn't really prepared to come back up to the standard of work that my home high school had. But in junior year, I really brought it up with straight A's (and 1 B)</p>
<p>I'm applying to:
UCB
UCLA
UCSD
UCI
UCD
UCSB
Cal State San Luis Obispo</p>
<p>USC
NYU
Boston U
University of Illinois Urbana Champaigne
University of Washington
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill</p>
<p>Thanks a bunch!</p>
Good Luck!!</p>