<p>Hi I am a junior in high school and my parents make under 60K a year, I was wondering what is the whole Questbridge process and do I have a chance of becoming a finalist?</p>
<p>I live in California and go to a pretty big public school with about 3200 students.
GPA UW: 4.0
SAT: 2170 (I plan on taking the ACT in the fall)</p>
<p>School Stuff:
-I am on the Track Team, first chair of my orchestra on cello, and have taken spanish for 4 years
-Since Freshman Year I have only taken Honors or AP Classes, and taken 5 classes at local College and received college credit
-I have toured with my orchestra to San Francisco and New York
-I myself have been in several cello competitions where I received "Superior" scores and I was one of the few people from my school who flew out to San Jose to participate in an honors orchestra where the best in the state come together to perform several orchestral pieces
-I have played with my orchestra at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, and The Lincoln Center in New York
-I am Secretary of the UNICEF club (President next year) I helped raised over $2,000 dollars for building wells and water pumps in Africa and also we have had over 20 fundraisers for donating money for those in Haiti, Japan, and Chile
-I am also part of the Medical/Doctors Club at my school (I want to become a surgeon)
-As well as being on the track team I also co-coach with the Head Coach and I take groups of kids-teach them all the basics of running and help them out at track meets
-Creative Writing Club</p>
<p>Volunteer Things and Hours:
-Track Meets: over 100hrs
-Child Leader/Mentor @YMCA: over 150 hrs
-Homework Tutoring: over 100hrs
-Cello Tutoring: over 120hrs
-Red Cross: 75-100hrs
-Volunteering at UCLA Hospital: 50-75 hrs
-School Events (Concerts, Performances, School-Cleanup, etc.): over 50 hrs</p>
<p>About Myself:
-I am an the first in my family to be born in America, my parents moved here from Iran and went to college
-Income below 60K
-I really want to become a surgeon-either brain or heart
-I am almost positive that I can get really good letters of Recommendation from my teacher
-In June I am taking Spanish and Chemistry Subject Tests and in the Fall I will take Math 2 and possibly Biology
-I am already sure what I am going to write my college essays about; for over a year and a half I have been tutoring autistic cello students, which has had a great impact on me and my views of life and specifically the brain. I have always been fascinated by how the brain works and when I tutor these autistic students I am not only helping them by using cello as a medium to calm them down, I also help myself by exposing myself to different types of people and learning different ways that I can help. My cousin is also an epileptic, who has suffered from Traumatic Brain Injuries, bulimia, and anorexia nervosa all of which I have had to help her through and let her see the light of her situation. All of these things together have made me who I am and taught me things that shape what I do and why I do it. (I haven't even worked on the essay but this was just the reason why I want to use it)</p>