<p>-Junior at 2nd "highest ranked" public high school in California
-3.7 unweighted, 3.8 weighted
-Took old SAT and got 1330 (this was after forgetting i was taking it until the night before, and going through the entire test with a pretty nasty cold. just took it to get an idea on how i'd do), now taking intensive SAT classes to prepare for new SAT's
-Haven't taken any SAT II's yet
-School doesn't rank
-Took AP Euro last year, got a 4 on the test
-Taking more or less the most AP's i can take at my school (my school doesn't offer too many). -Schedule this year is Calc AB AP, AP US, Spanish 4 Honors, Physics, French 1, Orchestra, English. Next year's schedule will be (if i get the classes i want) AP Statistics, Gov/Econ (no ap offered), spanish 5 AP, psychology, orchestra, english. </p>
<p>Extra Curriculars:
Been playing cello for 6 years
Been in school orchestra every year since 6th grade
Been in selective private youth orchestra for 2 years
Currently in a string ensemble that's playing at competitions and the such
Played Piano for 6 years also
Won numerous competition awards</p>
<p>Will have had been in the Interact club at my school for 4 years</p>
<p>Volunteer for Amigos de las Americas (to make a complicated thing simple, it's pretty much peace corps for high school/college students, living in a tiny village in latin america by yourself for the entire summer [2 months], supporting the community to implement projects). I was a volunteer last summer and I'm going to be a volunteer this summer again (for someone to volunteer 2 summers in a row is very rare). also on training staff this year, training the new volunteers for this summer. With this project I have also tutored under-priveleged hispanic immigrants in my area in learning English. </p>
<p>Went to selective summer school at UC Berkeley 2 summers in a row, one summer taking German 1 and the other summer taking Japanese 1 and a Linguistics class. </p>
<p>Part of a program where I am to take place in a fake car accident to promote awareness of Drunk Driving. Once again, another hard to explain activity. Maybe a 50 hour + commitment for me overall</p>
<p>As of the middle of sophomore year (before my volunteering in latin america with Amigos) I'm ranked 19th in "spanish ability" in california among non-native speakers (we took a big standardized test that the entire state took and i got the 19th highest score in the state). I also take french. </p>
<p>Gone to the world finals for Odyssey of the Mind (another impossible to explain activity, a creativity/drama type activity) 2 years in a row, ranking 5th the first year. </p>
<p>Been on a panel for my school about stress on students </p>
<p>For my rec letters, one of them will be AMAZING (my spanish teacher) and one of them will be pretty good (math teacher) </p>
<p>As far as what I want to study, I'm thinking along the lines of Japanese/Spanish/Linguistics. I want to get into international relations / affairs, but I don't think I would want to major in it</p>
<p>Schools I'd apply to if i had unlimited time:
-Brown (first choice by far)
-Yale
-Harvard
-BU
-Tufts
-Georgetown
-UC's
Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, LA, and San Diego (i'm in state)
-Pomona
-USC</p>
<p>What do you guys think my chances would be ath the schools above ^^^^^^^^^^ and would you have any other reccomendations for schools for me, whether they'd be a huge reach or a safety school based on my stats.</p>
<p>Thanks SO much for reading this. I really appreciate it :)</p>