<p>I'm a high school senior currently enrolled in a public high school of approximately 1500-1600 students in a suburb of Portland, OR. My previous three years of high school I attended a public high school in the Central Texas area of approximately 2000 students. I was rank 1/461 when attending my previous school.</p>
<p>Colleges I have applied to:
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Duke, Johns Hopkins, and Pepperdine.</p>
<p>General info:
Male
Asian American
Currently living in Oregon</p>
<p>Tests:
SAT I - 1600
Presidential Scholar nominee (1 of approx. 2600 in nation...)
SAT II - Writing: 800, Math IIC: 800, Chemistry: 800
National Merit Finalist
Four "5's" on AP tests - APUSH, AP Stats, AP Eng Lang and Comp, AP Chem -> AP Scholar with Honor</p>
<p>School:
GPA (UW): 4.0, weighted is really quite irrelevant
Rank: 1/371, whether weighted or unweighted
Currently taking four more AP courses, including AP Bio...</p>
<p>Sports:
Played JV Tennis for my freshman and sophomore years in Texas, didn't get anything but 1st in district for boys' singles, then quit tennis to focus on other things.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
-Academic Team for my HS in Texas for three years, served as treasurer, went to State competition in Science and Social Studies, won 6th place at State in SS.
-Did C/X Debate for three years, reached state competition my freshman year, other two years I was just pulled in at districts b/c someone lost a partner due to grades or other equally lame circumstance.
-USAD (Academic Decathlon), placed 1st at region in mathematics and second in essay writing... team didn't advance.
-Student Council - was a sophomore class representative (elected, 1/6 total)
-Tennis, already mentioned above.
-Science Bowl - participated this year, was an "All-Star", but our team did not advance when docked points in a tied round due to highly irregular proceedings out of our control (we should have contested it, in retrospect).</p>
<p>Member of/past member of... (clubs/organizations)
-NHS
-NFL (National Forensics League, not pro-football :P)
-German Club
-Amnesty Int'l Club
-Asian Awareness Club (haha)</p>
<p>Volunteer work/community service:
-Total of over 200 hours over the past two years (all documented)
-Volunteered at a hospital, an animal shelter, a library, and a museum
-Also tutor after school once a week</p>
<p>Job (only one ever):
-Tutoring</p>
<p>Awards:
-Presidential Scholar nominee
-National Merit Finalist
-AP Scholar with Honor
-All American Scholar Award
-Who's Who...
-Many other minor ones, etc.</p>
<p>Other:
-Published essay
-Published poem
-Won a visual arts contest freshman year</p>