so hi! the title’s preeeetty self explanatory. now that college apps are (mostly) done, i thought i’d give this a go
gpa: through my current first semester senior grades it’s around a 4.1-4.2 weghted. I’m not quite sure what my uw gpa is though, but honors courses are +.5 and ap are +1
act: 35C (35E, 34M, 35R, 36S, 30 essay)
sat iis: chemistry: 800, math ii: 790, spanish (non-native): 700
ap scores: Chemistry (5), US History (4), Spanish Language (4)
Senior Courses: Chinese I Honors, AP Spanish Literature, AP Computer Science, English 12, AP Physics C, AP Calculus AB
note that i’ve taken a lot of honors courses–as many as i could (9 honors, 3 ap before sr year)–and only missed the opportunity of taking ap euro
Ranking: none, school doesn’t rank
Ethnicity: Half-white, half-Chinese
State/Country: Ohio
Income: high enough that finances are very luckily not an issue
Legacy: upenn, nyu (both grad school legacies though)
Awards: National Spanish Exam Level II-IV (Silver medal, Bronze medal, Silver medal), Science Olympiad medals Regionals, a variety of local bowling awards, National Merit Semifinalist
Specifics
Extracurriculars
-Self-Studying Japanese (sophomore-senior year, 2 hrs/week all year. Self studied Japanese with textbooks and websites. Attended a language camp at Ohio Northern University after 10th grade. Could maybe test out of the first semester of a beginning college Japanese course)
-Self-Studying Korean (junior-senior year, 2 hrs/week all year. Self studied with textbooks and online websites, but still a beginner)
-Cappies Lead Critic (sophomore-senior year, 5 hrs/week, 10 weeks/year. Cappies is a club where up to 9 members see and review other high school plays/musicals. I see 6/year. Good reviews are published online, and excerpts of 3 of mine have been published in the city’s newspaper)
-Bowling Team Varsity Member (sophomore-senior year, 17 hrs/week, 24 weeks/year. Member of school bowling team and spring bowling league. Team went to Districts twice, placed 2nd at sectionals last year where I placed 2nd individually.)
-Science Olympiad (sophomore-senior year, 5 hrs/week, 20 weeks/year. club co-head senior year. Team does decently, I have won individual medals at Regionals. As club head I assign events and coordinate stuff)
-Will work as Precinct Election Official (senior year, 22 hrs/week, 1 week/year. I worked as a PEO for the election on Nov 8th [one of the people who help people vote if that makes sense] and get paid)
-National Spanish Honors Society (junior-senior year, we don’t do anything but get this cool award status and a candle)
-Academic Team (sophomore-senior year, 3 hrs/week, 15 weeks/yr. Like quiz-bowl/Jeopardy. Locally my team does well (last year undefeated))
Summer Programs:
-Attended classes for college credit at Harvard last summer (judge me for it I don’t care). Took Linguistics and Principles to Macroeconomics, got A- in both. Had a total blast!
Recommendations:
-Chemistry teacher: Had her for Honors and AP Chemistry. She excitedly offered to write me a rec letter.
-Computer Science teacher: Had him for 2 years (Programming I and II, AP Computer Science). His teacher comments are always nice and he knows me outside of the classroom (in bowling).
-Spanish teacher: Had him for three years (Spanish II Honors, AP Spanish Language, AP Spanish Literature). Knows me pretty well, asking him for my Georgetown application
-Counselor: I think it’d be pretty good. We’ve talked a lot about stuff and he said he was gonna ask some other teachers (like my physics teacher) for some quotes. He told me that my chem and compsci teacher’s recs are pretty good : )
Essays:
-I’d say my CA essay was pretty good. It wasn’t super elaborate writing but it conveys what I want it to.
-for supplements, I feel they’re all really good (although I’m not done with Penn and Georgetown). I’d call them some of the best writing I’ve done 
Prospective major:
linguistics (marked as first choice), computer science (marked as second if there is a second option).
schools:
accepted to Ohio State and Northeastern
applying to:
usc (south california), boston university, brandeis, columbia, harvard (rip), nyu, northwestern, pomona, stanford (rip), uchicago, upenn, georgetown, ucla, uc berkeley (got letter of rec request), uva
I know my list is very reach heavy thank you for reading all of this!!
(let me know if i forgot something bc I probably did)
re: ecs, i initially joined a lot of my ecs to try to find what i liked and i ended up liking them all so i stuck with them. (and personally imo i think my ecs do show leadership and align a little bit but maybe that’s me trying to feel better about my app ahaha)