<p>Sorry about this, I know that chance threads can be a bit irritating >_> Just a wondering soul...</p>
<p>Anyway, I'm a sophomore in high school. I attend a huge and intensely-competitive public high school where Caucasians form a minority. I'm Asian (Indian) and mid-income (nothing special there). I'd appreciate being chanced for NYU, UC Berkeley, Rice, Georgetown and (yay here comes the impossible reach school!) Yale. Okay well here goes:</p>
<p>GPA: UW - 3.885. W - 4.12
SAT: 2370 (going to take again next year and then just forget about it. OR can you send sophomore year scores? :P)
SAT II: Haven't taken yet.
AP Tests: Haven't taken, but this May will take AP Calculus BC, AP CompSci A, and AP Physics B.
Current Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP CompSci, Physics Honors, Dance, World History, Spanish 3, World Literature
Junior Year Course Load: AP Statistics, AP Music Theory, AP Biology, APUSH, Spanish 4 Honors, American Literature Honors, Law</p>
<p>Major Awards: Physics Olympiad National Semifinalist, U.S. Open Music Competition (1st-4th place medals - not too prestigious a competition?), Scholastic Art and Writing Competition (2nd place, Gold Keys), Recipient of High School Diploma in Music, Selected to play at American Fine Arts Festival at Carnegie Hall in May (in love with piano), Regional winner of App Development Challenge - it's a team thing. App - which has to do with the environment and energy efficiency - is currently under development to be released on Android app market - we didn't win nationals but somebody apparently took a liking to our proposal.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Biotech research at a nearby lab (efficient bioplastics production), Media division supervisor of Robotics Team, Marketing manager at local mobile app startup, some state-level science competitions.</p>
<p>Tennis team (JV - I shall never be good enough to be recruited, I'll say that.), Track & Field (Freshman year varsity - I quit after that)</p>
<p>Speech and Debate, Founder and Co-President of Radio Club, Founder and Club Manager of Junior Statesman of America, Global Humanitarian Alliance Student Leader, Junior board member of a major youth-oriented international organization, Founder and Editor of a seasonal global issues journal with writers from around the world, Obama 2012 Social Media Campaign Intern, Green Youth Alliance Project Leader, DECA (4th place for community service-related project at Internationals), Editor of school's literary magazine.</p>
<p>Piano - Been playing for 11 wonderful years (started when I was 5). I sometimes organize charity concerts with my music academy (most recently to raise money for natural disaster victims in Japan) and I teach Music Theory on weekends. And as mentioned before, I compete and I'm going to play at Weill Hall in a few months! So excited! :)</p>
<p>In general these are all somehow things I'm excited about and love in some way, shape or form. On my college apps I'm most likely going to omit some of the non-essentials, especially seeing that I just look like a laundry list at the moment. Anyway, the thing about me: I love both the arts and the sciences. I'm been fanatically obsessed with writing and piano forever, and yet I feel like I (and the world) would be nowhere without science. And unfortunately that leads to me looking wayyyyy too well-rounded without a specific focus.</p>
<p>But if there's anything I have a passion for more than anything, it's humanitarianism. And I've tried to stitch my extremely dichotomous arts-sciences interests with that common thread. I used writing to start a global issues journal, I used piano to hold fundraisers, and I implement sciences for an environmental purpose. So really, I'd love to be some sort of activist when I grow up.</p>
<p>Wow. Dang, I can RAMBLE. I'll stop now. Chance please? That is, if I didn't annoy you too terribly much, lol.</p>