<p>Hi! I am a male asian junior right now from Michigan. I have a 3.76 gpa now. I have had an interesting set of courses. Freshman year: Honors Precalculus, AP Physics B, Honors Spanish, and all regular classes not including spanish which i keep moving on up in levels ( i just started at spanish 200 instead of the normal 100)
Sophomore year: AP Calculus AB with a 5 on the exam, AP Chem one semester but next semester took Honors Chem because it was too hard, spanish 300 then all reg. classes
Junior Year: AP Statistics, AP US Government, AP Economics, spanish 400, then all reg.
Senior Year: Strong classes</p>
<p>Test Scores: I am taking the new sat and am currently around 2300.
EC:</p>
<p>I am in a club called Building with Books, a charity association devoted to raising money to build a school in a developing nation. I am very involved in this club. I do about 12 hours of community service every month thru this club by teaching in an elementary school for underpriveliged kids who are below their normal grade expectations and have no real hope of catching up. I help the kids learn how to do their hw because their parents are also uneducated and cant help them out. Our building with books club is the only one in michigan that can afford to do this so we are the children’s last hope. I also went to this small community that has had a bad voter turnout rate for the past few elections thru BWB and helped set up voter stands and raise voter turnout for like 8 hours one day. I helped sell season packets for the Detroit Lions through the club for community service and to help raise money. (we got part of the amount we sold). I also participated in a classroom exchange to witness how school functions in underprivileged school districts that don’t have enough money to pay the teachers properly. I have done many other projects besides this. My biggest service project is gonna occur this summer. Im going to be going to Mali (fully paid by club) as a representative of my club and helping to build the school which we raise money for throughout the year. It will last 17 days and be around 200 hours of comm. serv. This is by far my main EC and something I want to pursue at college. </p>
<p>This summer i gave tennis lessons to little kids.
I am also on the varsity team for tennis this year but last two years on the jv team</p>
<p>I have been playing piano for 10 years. I practice 14 hours a week.</p>
<p>I had also been out of 2000 nominated to join the US Physics Olympiad team, which test i took in my freshman year but did not get in (to the team).</p>
<p>I want to major in business and engineering.</p>
<p>Recs should be no problem.</p>
<p>I also took summer school in the summer before my sophomore year at an advanced program for “academic scholors” at University of Michigan and a summer school program in the summer before my freshman year at Northwestern. I took a number theory class at U of M and a precalculus class at Northwestern that helped me prepare for precalc honors freshman year. </p>
<p>I am also in the process of starting an FBLA chapter in my school with a friend, which is going to be really cool!</p>
<p>How do you think my chances are compared to other typical applicants applying to Berkeley?? Thanks for reading, BTW!</p>