<p>Okay, no rewards for chancing me, but I appreciate anyone's input. I am a senior.</p>
<p>GPA (unweighted): 3.73/4.00 GPA (weighted): 4.7/5.00
I started out freshmen year with only 2 honors, but ever since Sophomore year, I was all honors and AP classes. If I count this year's courses, I will have 9 AP classes by the time I graduate. Also, took 4 college classes. They were Linear Algebra, Multi-variable Calc, another math class focusing on proofs and some abstract topics, and finally a computer science class on algorithms and data structures (for those who are knowledgeable in CS, we studied things like AVL trees, Splay trees, Amortized Analysis, some string pattern matching algorithms, and etc.)</p>
<p>SAT: 2170 (M: 800, CR: 720, W: 640) (retaking it tomorrow. Not really my decision to. My parents are, and thus the same for me, asian (Korean))
SATII: 800 Math II, 800 Physics, 740 Chem
ACT: 36 (all 36s except reading)</p>
<p>AP tests: 4s and 5s and one 3.</p>
<p>EC/Awards:
Math Team: 4 years. Probably my favorite EC in HS.</p>
<p>Piano: since I was around 8 years old. However, I lack so much talent that I was never able to win anything in competitions.</p>
<p>Science Olympiad: 11th and 12th.</p>
<p>Tennis: Started in middle school. I am in the varsity team, but not very good (at all). I did earn a varsity letter tho.</p>
<p>Qualified for AIME Junior year, though I really sucked at it. Pulled an all-nighter the day before to finish a paper.</p>
<p>AP Scholar w/ distinction</p>
<p>Other small awards that the school gives out.</p>
<p>Recs: One good one, and one excellent? I really don't know and I'm just going off of what my experience with those teacher's were like. My counselor knows me fairly well, since I had a few brothers go through this school)</p>
<p>Essay: I think I am a horrible writer, but my friends say I underrate myself. So, I have absolutely NO idea. My teacher looked over them, but didn't do anything except point out grammatical errors. I believe my topics were pretty unique and reveals a lot about me (at least my good parts)</p>
<p>Finally, for the list of schools I am applying to. I am mostly looking to do Physics and/or engineering with a CS minor/dual major.
UIUC Engineering
UMich
Carnegie Mellon (SCS or CIT)
MIT
Caltech
Cornell
Stanford
U of Chicago (don't know how legacies really work or whether UChicago really cares about this, but my dad went there for graduate school)</p>