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Old 10-17-2012, 02:00 AM   #1
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 22
Chance Me ED (Let's Do It)

ED CC
State: Illinois
Gender: Male
Race: Asian
Languages: English, Mandarin, Cantonese

Standardized Tests
ACT (w/ writing): 34 (11)
ACT (w/o writing): 35
SAT 2: 800 (Math 2), 740 (Chem)
PSAT: 203

Courseload
Freshman Year:
Honors Algebra 2/Trig
Honors Bio
Honors World History
Honors English I
Gym
Orchestra
Spanish 2

Sophomore Year:
Honors English II
Honors Chemistry
Honors Pre-Calculus (Math Analysis)
Gym
Spanish 3
AP Euro: (5 on AP Test)
Honors Physics

Junior Year:
AP Stats: (4 on AP Test)
AP English (Lang & Comp): (5 on AP Test)
AP Calc BC: (5 on AP Test)
AP Physics C: (Double 3s meh)
Gym/Health
AP Chem: (4 on AP Test)
AP US History: (4 on AP Test)

Senior Year:
Calc 3 (Multivariable Calculus through UIUC)
AP English (Lit & Comp)
AP Macro/Micro
AP Bio
AP Gov
Gym
AP Enviro

GPA:
4.29(w) 3.87 (uw)

Class Rank: Top 10% (That's the highest they report)
National Merit Commended
AP Scholar with Distinction

ECs:

Volunteering: Volunteered as a teacher assistant at my Chinese school around 70+ hours and volunteered with a museum and got around 60+ hours also did some bits of volunteering with the Asian community center at times and got around 10 hours

Research: Researching at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine right now.
Assisting the professor in research with preventing organ transplant rejection without compromising the immune system. Got Letter of Rec

Scholastic Bowl/QuizBowl (whatever you call it)
Varsity team for 4 years, helped our team to being varsity conference champs for 2 years and several other top 4 finishes at tournaments

Math Team
3 Years (including this year), 2nd year as Junior Representative, 3rd year as Team Captain
2 Individual awards in Geometry and Algebra 2
Statebound first 2 years most likely going to go again this year
Several varsity team events awards and overall team awards

Business Professionals of America
2 Years (Including this year)
Came in 2nd at Regionals and State for PC Servicing & Troubleshooting
10th at Nationals for PC Servicing & Troubleshooting (idk why I didn't stage, advisor showed us the Post-NLC results and I came up as 10th)

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