<p>Here's my profile, I'm going to be a senior this fall</p>
<p>Asian male, first gen to go to college in U.S. (don't know if that matters?)
very competitive high school, obscenely high amount of AP students, top 5% pretty much all get into elite schools, 20+ ivy bound students this year</p>
<p>rank: 54 out of 1008<br>
GPA unweighted: 3.91 weighted: 4.1363</p>
<p>Test scores:
SAT I (took twice): math 800, critical reading 740, writing 780
superscore: math 800, critical reading 760, writing 780
SAT II: Chinese 780, MathII 800, U.S. History 800, planning on taking English and Physics </p>
<p>AP exams: Human Geography 5, Spanish Lang Comp 5, English Lang Comp 5, U.S. History 5, Calculus BC 5, Calculus AB 5, Statistics 5</p>
<p>Senior course:
AP Macro Economics
AP Physics C
AP English IV
Orchestra
AP European History
AP Computer Science
Calc III at community college</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Violin for 6 years, piano for 8
Chamber Orchestra 9th-12th
Orchestra officer 10th-11th, 12th pending
Co-chair of prizes/raffle committee for annual Asian Festival
Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Philharmonic 1st violins, 10th-11th
NHS 9th-12th
Key Club 9th-12th
JSA/Political Club (kinda merged at our school) 10th-12th
Math Club 9th-12th
Whiz Quiz 9th-12th, nationals 10th-11th
Officer in AAYA (tutoring organization)
Taekwondo 5 years, 1st degree black belt
Contributions to school newspaper and Dallas Morning News</p>
<p>Awards:
All-Region 9th-11th, 12th pending
Numerous medals at Taekwondo competitions (should i list them?)</p>
<p>Community Service:
100+ hours from tutoring at local elementary schools
Another 80 hours this summer teaching disadvantaged students how to speak English in Taiwan
Another 30-40 hours volunteering for Tzi Chi, a Chinese-American volunteer organization that does a wide variety of things (from emergency relief after Katrina or sending supplies to Asia after typhoons, to fundraising for donations to hospital, etc.)</p>
<p>Comments: It probably seems as though I'm trying to stretch out my extracurrics and leadership positions, and the reason for that is because I am...As anyone can clearly see my extracurrics are weak, and my leadership positions are near laughable...The problem I have is not doing anything 9th-10th and majority of 11th, especially a HUGE drop in rank during my 10th grade year. Plus as seen, I don't have that many solid activities/leadership positions.<br>
What I'm wondering is if my test scores/essays/teacher recs will make up for my lack of extracurrics and mediocre rank, though my rank should improve by a lot if I'm applying regular decision.
By the way, if there's one thing my teachers have complimented me on, it's my essays; I think writing is my strongest "talent" if that can be considered a talent.
Teacher recs I'm not so sure: my recent teachers seem to like me a lot, but there is a sufficient number of teachers, especially most of my 9th/10th grade teachers, that don't think very highly of me.</p>
<p>Schools that I want to apply to:
University of Texas at Austin (Plan II honors program hopefully)
Rice University
Northwestern University
Georgetown University
New York University
edit: oh yea and I'm thinking about applying to University of Chicago</p>
<p>Thanks guys, I appreciate it, don't be afraid to be harsh...I'm one person that probably needs a little criticism to set me on the right track =P</p>