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3.7 UW / 3.8 W
I've always taken as many APs/Honors classes as possible.
Top 15%

Asian, CA

2100 SAT (680 CR, 710 M, 710 W), retaking Oct
SAT II - US History 660, Chinese 620, retaking Nov

EXTRACURRIC

Speech + Debate Team - Secretary, Vice President (4 years)
Red Cross Club - Vice President (4 years)
Adopt-an-Alleyway Youth Empowerment Project - Social Chair (3 years)
Campaign Academy - Campaign Leader (3 years)
CSF Representative (3 years)
The Eagle School Newspaper - Editor-in-Chief (2 years)
Eagle News Broadcast - Reporter (2 years)
Fiona Ma Assemblywoman of CA - Intern (2 years)
Student Site Council - Vice Chair (2 years)
Junior Statesman of America Club - Historian (1 year)

PROGRAMS
- Northwestern University - CTD Civic Engagement & Leadership Institute (Summer)
- 3 year participant World Savvy Affairs Competition

JOBS
- US House of Rep Page (summer 2009)
- The Sixth Graphics + Web Design Studio - owner (6 years)
- Natural Dental Lab - assistant manager (4 years)
- Help-U-Learn Tutorial - Tutor (4 years)

AWARDS
- 1st Place Voice of Democracy Speech Contest: Honoring Veterans of Foreign Wars
- 2nd Place Lion's Club Speech Contest: Water - Will CA be left high and dry?
- 2nd Place Lion's Club Speech Contest: Immigration - My Solution
- 3rd Place World Affairs Competition Best Discovery Poster
- 4th Place Best Speaker - CHSSA Student Congress

hooks
1st gen college, started my own graphics/web design company to help out my family through high school, worked as page with US house of rep


I'm concerned about my GPA and SAT II scores.

I appreciate your responses.

S.L.

Your SAT 1 score is the same as the median for last year's (2012) class. I don't know about GPA. Your extracurricular activities and jobs look very good to me, so you should have a very good chance of getting in.

light up the sky

aiy i'm just worried about my GPA.
does anyone know average admitting GPA?

neumes

This is from the 08-09 Common Data set so it's for ATTENDING freshmen (not admitted, which I'm guessing is higher):

Percent in top quarter of high school graduating class 91%
Percent in top half of high school graduating class 99%
Percent in bottom half of high school graduating class 1%
Percent in bottom quarter of high school graduating class 0%
Percent of total first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted high school class rank: 51%

Percentage of all enrolled, degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who had high school gradepoint averages within each of the following ranges (using 4.0 scale).

Percent who had GPA of 3.75 and higher 71.0%
Percent who had GPA between 3.50 and 3.74 19.5%
Percent who had GPA between 3.25 and 3.49 5.7%
Percent who had GPA between 3.00 and 3.24 2.7%
Percent who had GPA between 2.50 and 2.99 1.1%

light up the sky

oh, wow where did you get that?
I don't think 3.75 is very accurate representation though because most people applying probably have over a 3.75.

I looked at USNews (my counselor has premium edition) for entering class statistics and the average UW is 4.0 GPA (i dont know if that's really accurate!) because there's bound to be things that would skew it towards at least 3.9..

neumes

Here is where I found these statistics (from the horse's mouth): www.wesleyan.edu/ir/cds/cds2008-09.pdf

This is for enrolled Freshmen. I doubt that the unweighted AVERAGE of applicants or of accepted students is 4.0. That's, well, perfect.

S.L.

There are multiple ways of calculating GPA, and many high schools not in the US do not calculate GPAs at all. For example, I was in the IB program, so I don't know what my GPA is.

neumes

Here are two more statistics that I should have put in (but do read the pdf from Wesleyan; there's a lot more stuff):

Average high school GPA of all degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted GPA: 3.95 (out of 4.0)
Percent of total first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted high school GPA: 72.59%

So it's really, really high, for sure, but it's not 4.0.

light up the sky

Yeah, that's pretty intimidating. Princeton Review says average freshman high school GPA is 3.95 too.