machiavelli

I know WashU will be my 1st or 2nd choice uni. I want to apply ED but am afraid of losing out on finaid. And I want to apply for their merit scholarships.

chinese female from TX

GPA 4.0 UW, 4.77 W
Rank 2 of 828

SATI: 1550; 790m, 760v
SAT new: 2270; 740m, 740cr, 790w
SAT combined: 2340 (I'm correct in thinking WU combines top scores?)

SATII: 760 mIIC (may retake), 720 USH, 780 chinese (will this hurt, with me being Chinese and not getting an 800?), 680 chemistry (will def. retake!)

AP Scores
sophomore year: Stats 5, CompSciA 5, World Hist 4 (self study); AP Scholar
junior year: CalcAB 5, English Language 5, Chemistry 5, USH 4, Spanish Language 3 (horrid teacher); coulda been AP National Scholar junior year... damn Spanish
senior year schedule: (all GT where applicable)
AP English Lit
AP Calc BC
AP Government - AP Macroeconomics
AP European History
AP Physics C (thinking about switching to B)
AP Art History
PACE - unpaid internship program

ECs
Academic Decathlon/Octathlon - 4 years (after next year)
Academic Challenge/Quiz Bowl - 2 yrs
FBLA - 4 years
HOSA - 1 year
Key Club - 3 years
NHS - 2 years
Spanish Honor Society - 2 years
Mu Alpha Theta - 4 years
Who's Who, National Honor Roll, the usual stuff

Awards
Octathlon - medaled in all subjects except for 2, overall regional winner individually
FBLA - leadership conferences, won district twice - International Business then Parliamentary Procedures, won state twice - International Business then Marketing, went to nationals twice - placed once in Marketing
AP Statistics Award
more useless stuff

Volunteering
before 9th grade - library 25 hrs
before 10th grade - hospital 160 hrs, other hospital 54 hrs
before 11th grade - University of Texas Medical School in Houston 100 hrs

Jobs
before 11th grade - restaurant hostess 40 hrs/wk
during 11th grade (yeah I had a busy/bad year) - Kumon 10 hrs/wk (weekdays)
before 12th grade - Baylor College of Medicine research internship 40 hrs/wk

Activities
Chinese school graduate lol
piano - since age 7 (may make CD for supplement)
webdesign (hobby), proficient in XHTML, CSS, PHP

Downfalls: That SATII chem grade (I dunno how demented I was feeling that day... and I got a 5 on the AP chem...); spanish AP grade (which I think I'm hiding...); not many leadership activities (I don't think the people who do have positions do much anyway)

Hooks: um... I dunno... well I know many people have jobs, but I'm not sure if many take all AP classes, do other stuff, volunteer, and hold down a job? maybe they do, and I'm not special xP
uh... immigrant family, not exactly a wealthy family back in China to support them, parents only had money in their pocket and shirt on their backs
also, living in a high salary area, probably minimum is 80K (MINIMUM!) while I'm in single parent home with around 30K...

Thanks! Any advice as to what to do (ED/RD/merit scholarships) would be appreciated!

filmxoxo17

Living in a high salary area isn't a hook. If anything that's a bad thing for admissions.

machiavelli

I edited it a bit...

ShakaReincarnation

yay! FBLA! web design too? wow we are pretty similar

anywayz, you got a great chance but washU is really weird wit their admissions...but if they don't weird out on you, you'll get in.

machiavelli

Cool thanks. So I see you're going here next year from your previous posts Do we have anything else similar DD? It's always good to have things in common with admits.

ShakaReincarnation

lol, your rank and GPA and SAT (cept chinese, lol) are all higher than mine...you can find my in ************ under the name "jacen"

ShakaReincarnation

LOL wow they bleeped out that url

just IM me and ill give you the link to my stats so you can compare

PoloniusMouth

its not how much stuff you've got. Its how you use it. just try and bother washU a lot. go to every meeting. talk to the admissions staff. I know everyone on the admissions staff and they all know me by name (i think ) . That really helps a lot