<p>Hey guys! October SAT scores just came in, and I've updated some stats. I'm only a junior right now, but I want to get some opinions on how I'm doing so far/what I should change.
Stuff in brackets [] means what I will <em>hopefully</em> have at the end of this year.
If you could chance what I have now and the bracketed stuff, I will be ever so grateful (and chance back ;D )</p>
<p>=Thanks for reading!=</p>
<p>DEMOGRAPHICS:
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Chinese (second gen)
Location: Northern California
High School: Public with about 500 in my class pretty decent, one of top in area
HS graduating year : 2013 (junior right now)
Class Rank: School only ranks in deciles, so officially top 10%, possibly top 1% , highest gpa in my class as far as i know so like (1/450 around?), but our school doesn't have official "ranks")
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>
<p>ACADEMICS:
GPA - Unweighted: 4.00 [4.00]
GPA - Weighted: 4.57 [4.702]
note: only unweighted classes I have taken and will take are either music or required classes such as Eng 10 H (unweighted for some reason )</p>
<p>10th--
World Civ (most rigorous course available): A+
Chem AP: A
Calc AB AP : A+
English 10 Honors (unweighted) : A
Music Theory AP: A
Spanish 4 Honors: A-
Concert Band : A</p>
<p>[11th]--
Physics AP: [A] so far: A
Calculus BC AP: [A] so far: A
Spanish 5 AP: [A] so far: A
Bio AP: [A] so far: A-
American Lit Honors (comp lang not offered): [A] so far: A-
Symphonic Band (audition group) : [A] so far: A</p>
<p>City college
US history 311: A</p>
<p>Test scores:
SAT I: M(800), CR(780), W(780) Essay(11) Total: 2360</p>
<p>SAT II: Math II(800) Chem(770)</p>
<p>APs:
sophomore: Chem (5), World History (5), Calc AB(5), Music Theory(5: 5 non-aural, 4 aural)</p>
<p>EXTRACURRICULARS:
Piano: Guild Auditions State Member 2 years, Winner Baroque Festival 2010
Clarinet: NorthBay Honor Band 2nd chair 2010, admitted into our school's symphonic band this year (a very good award-winning band). Not super great at clarinet, I would say I'm average/ above average, not super good but decent.
Tutor: Chess coach, I've coached a K-3 State Champion. 2 years so far.
Debate: Made it to regional semi-finals in Parliamentary. Record was about 50/50 last year.
CHESS: 2010 USCF, ranked top 60 in nation for my age, CA state champ in 8th grade (guess you know who I am now -.- ). Chess is my passion, I teach chess, I play chess, I learn chess-- trying to expand our school's chess club this year. Hopefully I can get [2200 USCF] which means I will be a Master, I'm an Expert right now.
Roller Hockey: Member of 2nd place NARCH team last year, member of JV for 3 years (since 8th grade), was asst. captain last year. Our team got 1st all years except last, when we got 2nd. I'm on Varsity this year.
MATH COMPETITIONS: AMC 10 score this year 126, AIME score 2 (lol). Member of our region's ARML team for 2 years so far, team captain and team high score (5) in 2011. Winner of Stanford Math Tournament at (my city); same test as one at Stanford, but at a different site (this was the first year they've tried this). [Hopefully 120+ on AMC12 this year, 10+ on AIME. I'm actually training this year compared to last year lol ]</p>
<p>LEADERSHIP:
Chess Club: President in Sophomore and Junior, [hopefully senior]
Founder of Chess Clubs in 2 Local Elementary schools, ~3 hours each week helping
Math team: A team [captain this year/ senior]
Math Competitions Club founder/president (for mainly local/statewide tournaments ie Mandelbrot)
Mu Alpha Theta: Secretary [President next year]
Csf, NHS, Key Club: member
Chinese Club: [co-president next year]
Hope to join Science Bowl team (we consistently get 2nd in our region) and Academic Decathlon Team (we get 1st in region) </p>
<p>COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Various community services since 9th grade ~100 hours (service clubs, local chinese school, chess tournaments)
Local Elementary school's chess club, 3 hr/ week
Organizing local chess tournaments (around 20-40 participants each tournaments)</p>
<p>WORK EXPERIENCE:
Chess Coach (paid, $10-15/ hr), maybe 50 hrs taught so far [100-200 hrs by senior]
[Kumon Grader next summer/ senior year]</p>
<p>HONORS & AWARDS:
Nor-cal ARML team captain, high scorer
NSL Chemistry silver individualist</p>
<p>AP Scholar with Honor
Asst. Captain JV Roller Hockey
AIME qualifier, site high score for AIME and AMC10
Stanford Math Tournament site winner, Team Captain (we got 1st place team)
ARML Local Team Captain (we got 1st place team)
[hopes for this year: continue my meager successes and ramp up my chess skills as well as community outreach. I won't do as many NHS/CSF projects, but instead use chess club's community outreach (hosting tournaments, teaching kids chess) as my main community service source]</p>
<p>additional information/hook?:
-around 100k income, so pretty well off.</p>
<p>Just your average Asian aiming for the stars...
hope I don't burn up on reentry</p>
<p>Colleges:</p>
<p>Stanford (EA)
Princeton
Harvard
MIT
Caltech
Cornell
Brown
Columbia
UCB
UCLA
UCSD
UCD</p>
<p>Also, anyone have any other recommendations on colleges and what I can do to increase my chances!</p>
<p>I'll try to chance back, but I'm new here so my advice not be the best > I'll do my best though, thanks for reading guys!</p>