<p>it's a chances thread. SORRY! i really like itufts a lot a lot but my grades/rank are just heinous. so...i don't know. i do like my essays and my letters of rec should be fairly good. unnngh.</p>
<p>GPA:~4.0 weighted (my public HS is top 2 or 3 in cali) my unweighted is 3.68. um...my ranking is 100 something/300 something. I don't really know why since I don't have any C's or lower but my hs is very very competitive. but most of my b's are in math/science area.</p>
<p>APUS: 5
AP Bio: 4 (I thought this was okay until I looked at the AP forums!)
AP Calc AB, AP Lit, and AP Spanish Senior year.</p>
<p>SAT I: (highest scored combined, taken 2x): w: 760 cr: 800 m: 680
SAT II:
Lit: 770
US Hist: 770
Math IC: 580 (ouch, long story) shoud I take the IC so as not to leave this blemish on my record? my math is shaky at best.
Writing: 790</p>
<p>Extracurrics: (I have this all organized in sections and w/ years and explanations but I didn't want to put it all here.)
School newspaper (Section Editor)
National magazine:Served as political correspondent by attending New Hampshire primaries and writing articles on politics)
Soundings School Literary Magazine
ASB (Head Commissioner of Newsletter)
Mosaic Newspaper
Cupertino Historical Society
Stanford Sociology/Psychology intern
Childrens Discovery Museum
Sedgwick Autistic Program (Received Outstanding Service Award)
Yang-Ching Chinese Percussion
Studio 10 Dance
Fong Art Studio
Grail Family services (Illustrated childrens novel to promote literacy)
Villa Montalvo (Received Exceptional Service Award )
Key Club
Chinese School
Honors/Awards:
1st prize, Third New Century International Youth Fine Art Contest Committee
Your Magazinewon essay contest; invited to write for the magazine and website, covering the primary elections in New Hampshire
Ladies Home Journal; Wrote article that was published on primary election visit
1st place winner, World Journal International Art Contest (11); Published in newspaper
Poetic Power-in Celebrations of Young Poets book
TeenInk Poetry Journal
Mosaic Journalism workshop-Most Accurate Reporting, accepted into the workshop (only 20 from Bay Area). Work appeared in Nuevo Mundo and San Jose Mercury News</p>
<p>other top choices are wellesley and bryn mawr. yep. all reaches.</p>