<p>i moved to california from singapore in december 2007, and im a senior in high school this year, so its kinda wierd to judge my GPA and extracurriculars but id be very grateful for any input(:</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Indian by birth, singaporean by citizenship</p>
<p>GPA(unweighted, because weightage is not a concept in Spore) : 3.68
Freshman year: very bad results, because my grandma died while visiting us for the first time the week before my mid year exams, so i was basically screwed for the year.</p>
<p>so obviously grades arent working for me. >< </p>
<p>SAT scores: 2200 total, 730 WR, 720 CR, 750 M (super scored, took twice,2160 first time)
SAT2s: 800math2,750bio, taking chem in dec</p>
<p>extracurriculars: </p>
<p>9th and 10th grade
<em>was in top prep school, argueably the best in the region</em>
school newsletter(editor)
indian orchestra(violin)
teaching kids with lang barriers to read (4h/week)
teacher at local tuition centre (something like kumon i guess)
PR manager for tuition centre (add campaign etc)
tutor(yes, all of us are tutors!)</p>
<p>11th grade
(keep in mind i started school in feb, so its like 5 months of school total)</p>
<p>Smile Club (raising funds for 3rd world kids who need cleft lip surgeries)
Youth Action team(community service. shall explain later)</p>
<p>tutor</p>
<p>thats it. clubs were kind of closed .</p>
<p>12th grade
Founder and prez Gyan Club (going to be expanded to whole district next year)
(its a non-profit tutoring business that i started. we basically tutor local kids at 11bucks an hour and we use all our profits to sponsor street children in india. its like a direct relationship between each tutor and kid, and we currently sponsor around 21.tons of groundwork and promotions, but twas all SO worth it(: one of my essays is about this, only its kind of more about helping poor children and education but this is one of the main aspects of what i did to help.)</p>
<p>Youth Action Team Prez
(so the youth action team is a board of highschool students interviewed and selected to organize events that help the community remain drug free etc. its technically a job and everyone else gets paid 10.40 per hour for doing stuff like putting up POSTERS, but sadly enough i dont have a work visa so im doing it for the experience and the community service. i'll basically have like 400h at the end of the year, because we have so many all day events and stuff. really great people and fun experience. my <em>boss</em> will be writing me a letter of rec, explaining how i decided to stay on even though i wasnt going to be paid.)</p>
<p>Smile club vice prez</p>
<p>Model UN vice prez (its a club at our school, we dont have a class)</p>
<p>CSF(no idea if this has an impact)</p>
<p>research at University of Calif Irvine UCI
(biophysics, around 8h/week, one of my essays is about this(common app). its basically drug research about the phospholipid membrane in the lungs, and its charecterizing the molecule to figure out how to make premature babies develop the membrane faster)</p>
<p>other classes:
french 3 at local community college
physics 3A over summer at UCI (my prof invited me to be his research assistant)A
Multivariable calc B+ (long story, got a 92 and the prof applied the curve when there were like 15 students in the class. and then he moved to china before we could argue.)</p>
<p>8aps by graduation, 2 in 11th grade</p>
<p>So, thats about it! my essays i think are pretty good. thus far, the main one is about this experience i had when i first went to india after a long time when i was around 11, and how it inspired me to do things like start gyan etc. the activity one is about research being like gambling(:</p>
<p>not so sure bout what my additional essay will be, maybe about making mistakes and that being a part of me (it actually is a much better essay than it sounds like)</p>
<p>so, please chance me!(: thanks so much, i need to decide if its worth applying to cornell!!!</p>