<p>Here goes.</p>
<p>Asian female; junior. Goes to one of Newsweek's '06 "Public Elites"--so the school <em>is</em> rigorous.</p>
<p>Stats
GPA (no weighting) = 4.0; school doesn't rank for fear of collective student sanity
SAT I: 2290 -- 750 CR, 760 M, 780 W.
SAT II: Math II--800, Chem--800, Bio(M)--800. </p>
<p>Coursework (the important stuff):
AP Chem (expected 5)
AP Stat & AP Calc (self study, expected 5s)
IB Math HL (expected 7)**
IB Lit HL (expected 5 or 6)**
Spanish I/II/III
History courses (US/World)
20th Cent. Russian History
Biotechnology Lab (3 hr lab on Wed.--freshman/sophomore years--the joys of electrophoresis gels and pipetting)
Biology/Biochemistry
Combinatorics/Number Theory/Adv. Geometry (electives)</p>
<p>Senior Year:
AP Bio
Multivariable Calc
Senior Thesis
Spanish IV
Physics
AP Econ</p>
<p>**I know that usually people take their IBs junior-senior years. For bizarre reasons relating to the program I'm in at school, I took them soph-junior years instead (i.e. I took the May exams last month). Bizarre is the key.</p>
<p>ECs
-internship--research assistant w/a prof. in ChemEng at Pton for the past year; continuing through the summer. I won some awards at the local sci fair (project was on protein secondary structure prediction), but nothing ISEF-y or huge. I did some research before that in biotech lab, but that's not as fun xD.
piano--played for 10 yrs; performance @ honors recital at Carnegie Hall; various other random awards (local); gave lessons to a middle school kid for a few months.
volunteer work at the library--did it for two years (1 hr/wk) in the children's section, dropped it junior year, picking it back up this summer.
member of school amnesty chapter--human rights work. I helped set up an annual benefit concert, as well as other fundraisers and letter writing actions.
NHS--erm, yeah.
Spanish Honor Society--haven't actually gotten into full swing with this yet, as I was just inducted last week...
tutoring--help people with chemistry and math. It's purely volunteer work, no pay--done in school by teacher request.</p>
<p>**Is the lack of formal "leadership" ECs a big problem? </p>
<p>Colleges
This is a partial list--if you feel like there's a college that might be a good fit that's not here, say so =D. (I'm the first child in the family, and my parents have no experience w/the American college system, so...yeah. Any suggestions are quite awesome.) Oh--I'm looking into eng./compsci/math majoring and going to grad school, if that helps.
-Princeton
-Harvey Mudd
-UChicago
-Northwestern
-MIT
-Lehigh
-Lafayette
-RPI
-WPI
-BC
-Olin
-CMU
-UMaryland
-Cornell</p>
<p>Many, many thanks for your help. =)</p>