Khulood

Indian Female
Middle Class
Suburban City

Here we go:


EC's

Babysitter
Neighbor's House-watch over their two four year old twins
September, 2011 - Present
4 hours/week
Grade 11,12

Tutor
Self-Employed, School
2 hours/week
Grade 12
I also privately tutor students who are struggling with subjects as a job.

EDUCATION
Irvine Valley College, Irvine
June, 2010 - July, 2010
I took French 1 at IVC, which is an equivalent to two years of high school French mastered.

VOLUNTEER SERVICE
Club Volunteer
Smile Train
September, 2011 - Present
Total Hours: 30
Grades 11,12

In this club, we had fundraisers (using food, henna, shirts, etc) to raise money for children who were born with cleft lip. By raising this money, we were able to help these kids get operations to fix their conditions and have a better future.

Teen Volunteer
Rancho Senior Center
July, 2011 - August, 2011
6 hours/week
Total Hours: 40
Grade 11

During this summer, I volunteer at the Senior Center out of my own will, not through the LIT program I was part of. I helped coordinate events, create and design flyers and posters, and help out the seniors whenever they were in need of any service.

Volunteer
Santa Ana Veteran's Clinic, Santa Ana
July, 2011 - August, 2011
4 hours/week
Total Hours: 50
Grade 11

I spent time working with the clinical staff and helping with their patients. I would make phone calls to remind them of their appointments, take down their blood pressure and other vital signs, and assist with medications and other various tasks.


Volunteer, Secretary
Mission for Vision, Woodbridge High School
September, 2010 - Present
2 hours/week
Total Hours: 22
Grades 10,11,12

This club was founded to collect and donate materials such as glasses, clothes, and shoes for those who are less fortunate.

LIT, Rancho Senior Center
June, 2010 - July, 2010
12 hours/week
Total Hours: 66
Grade 10

As an LIT, I helped out at the senior center by working at the front desk, working in the office, redecorating and embellishing the facility, and various other tasks. I was also asked to interview the coordinators of other volunteer programs in Irvine such as Meals on Wheels, wherefore I then made a report detailing my findings.

Tutor
CSF,
January, 2010 - Present
2 hours/week
Total Hours: 34
Grades 9,10,11

Through CSF, I was able to help my peers with their academic difficulties and help them succeed in the topics they originally struggled with.

Assistant
OC Libraries, Heritage/ Katie Wheeler
June, 2009 - August, 2009
6 hours/week
Total Hours: 20
Grade 9

Volunteer/President
GIFT

Total Hours: 20
Grades 10,12

In this club I started, we not only went to the senior center after making several projects and cards but also went to homeless shelters for women and helped clean their homes, kept them company, and helped make them lunch.

Friendship is Magic
September, 2011 - Present
1 hours/week
Grade 11

This club was founded to create a positive environment for interactions between high school students.

NASA Inspire

September, 2011 - September, 2012
3 hours/week
Grades 11,12

This selective program is sponsored by NASA to help those interested in future careers in space, engineering, technology, or mathematics to explore the fields through projects, quizzes, and online meetings with real NASA scientists.

Friend of Class Council

June, 2010 - April, 2011
Grade 10

I helped class council plan and conduct their various activities and fundraisers throughout the year.

Mock Trial

October, 2009 - February, 2010
12 hours/week
Grades 9,10

This Academic team was extremely intensive and took a lot of commitment. With all our hard work and efforts, we took 2nd in county both years and made it to state this past year on a wild card draw, where we then placed 12th in state.

Mission For Vision

September, 2009 - June, 2012
Grades 9,10,11,12

This club gathers donations like clothing, shoes, toys, books, and most importantly glasses for the underprivileged.

Dolphin Club

Grade 12

This club works to save Dolphins in Japan by raising money and spreading words of the terrible things that are being done to their species by whalers and shipping lines.

Smile Club

Grades 11,12

This club raises money for operations for children with cleft lips. These children often lose so many opportunities because of this disability and by helping them out, we can open so many more windows for their future.

Society of Women Engineers Member

Grades 11,12

This club meets to discuss various engineering jobs, perks, and also to demonstrate labs to younger children and go visit physics labs in several colleges

Youth Group/Friday Class/Saturday Class at Mosque

Grades 6,7,8,9,10,11,12

I'm very active at the local mosque whether it's taking classes to learn more about my religion and place in society or coordinating programs for youth group.

AWARDS/CERTIFICATES
Sentinel Awards

June 2010
Grade 9
I was honored with sentinel awards in both English and Math

AP Scholar

Grade 12
Out of the four AP tests I've taken so far, I've gotten 5's on two of them and 4's on the other two, qualifying me for the award.


City Exceptional Volunteer

Grade 11
The City formally recognized my exemplary volunteer commitment to the Senior Centers in this ceremony. It was awarded to only four teenagers who've volunteered at the Senior Centers in the past.

Mock Trial

Grades 9,10
I've received recognition for my participation in Mock Trial not only through the team and the school, but Orange County as well.

President's Award

Grade 11
I earned the President's Award for being in the 90% percentile at my school.

Sentinel Awards

Grade 10
I received Sentinel Awards for both English and Math.

Sentinel Awards

Grade 11
I earned a Sentinel Award in English, Social Science, Science, and Foreign Language. I also won division medallions in English and Foreign Language

Southern California MIST Winner

Grade 10
I won first place for poetry in this Southern California competition. It includes over 20 different high schools and about 300-400 participants.

Youth of the Month

Grade 11
This prestigious award is given to only 8 juniors out of the whole graduating class of 2013 (which amounts to about 430 people). It's based off of GPA, extra curriculars, and leadership.

SKILLS/ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
Commended National Merit Scholar

Poetry Published

Skill level: Advanced

I've had my poetry published in a volume of poems after submitting it in a national contest. I ended up becoming a semi-finalist.

LEADERSHIP
I am Secretary of the Save the Dolphins Club.

I am secretary for Mission for Vision, a club I've joined since sophomore year.

I am a Youth Group leader (senior year) at my local mosque, helping teens become more spiritual and learn more about their religion and how to spread good through their actions. I've been attending this mosque for quite some time now and I've always been taking classes, but it's now my turn to help teach others.

I was secretary of the Friendship is Magic Club during junior year.

I am Vice President of the Smile Club (senior year) after being in the club for a year.

In my second year in Link Crew, I got promoted to be one of the 8 coordinators of the program. My job was to instruct the Link Crew leaders (which I was in 10th) about how to deal with the freshman.

I was president of my own volunteer club at school called GIFT which dedicated time to seniors at the two Senior Centers in Irvine as well as homeless shelters in Santa Ana.


Phew.

Classes:
Freshman Year
Honors Culture Global Age
Honors Bio
Honors English
Honors Algebra 2
Spanish 2
All A's

Sophomore Year
Honors English 2
Honors Chem
Spanish 3
Honors PreCalc
AP European history
Beginning Screen Printing
All A's

Junior Year
AP Calc BC
AP Physics B
AP US History
Honors Spanish 4
Honors British Literature
A's in everything except B's in Calc both semesters, and 1 B in AP Physics

Senior Year
AP MacroEconomics
AP US Govt.
AP Statistics
AP Spanish 5
AP Chemistry
AP English Literature

GPA UNWEIGHTED: 3.88/4.00
GPA WEIGHTED: 4.54/4.00
CLASS RANK: TOP 1% of 548 students
UC/CSU GPA: 4.21 :/ (capped)

AP Test Scores
AP Calc BC-5
AP Calc BC AB subscore 5
AP US History 5
AP Euro 4
AP Physics B 4

SATII:
Math 2: 790
US History 750

ACT Score
34 composite, 34 math 34 reading (36 highest) 34 English 33 Science 32 comp. w/ a 09 essay


I'm doing Early Action for Stanford so that would be nice if you could chance me!
Also applying to USC, UCLA, UC Irvine, UC Berkeley, UCSD Cal Poly Pomona AND SLO

Going in as MechEngineering, want to possibly minor/double in AeroEngineering

Pretty powerful essays written.

PS. For Cal Polys, im sure I'll get in, but do you think there's a chance I could get a 75-100% merit scholarship because im so above average?

MutaRiSC

Please shorten this post.

I would say that UC's shouldn't be too hard for you.

Stanford is hard for everyone but since your EC's are ridiculously verbose, I can't help.

Khulood

sorry it was just my detailed resume :\

Khulood

bumpity bump bump

CollegiateDreams

Stanford - Reach
UC Berkeley - Low Reach
USC - Match/Low Reach
UCLA - Match/Low Reach
Cal Poly SLO - Match
UCSD - Match/High Safety
UC Irvine - Safety
Cal Poly Pomona - Safety

Stanford is a reach for pretty much everyone since admission results are so unpredictable, but you are definitely a strong candidate.

How are you sure you will get into Cal Poly SLO? Admissions for engineering at SLO are pretty competitive. You definitely have a good shot and it would say it is a match, but I wouldn't say it's an "automatic in."

Also, the Cal Poly's don't give very many merit scholarships, especially with the current financial situation. They may give some scholarships by department, but most is need-based. You chances for merit scholarship may be better at Pomona, of course.

Khulood

Thanks so much!
Anyone else?

basicspace

Well, while your laundry list of ECs looks impressive, it's probably best to focus on (if you aren't doing so already) a few of them. Colleges look for passion, not that you can dabble in everything without showing any serious commitment.

Grades and test scores look great, along with your class schedule and essays, female engineer is cool too, so I'd say you'd definitely be accepted into USC, UCLA, UCSD, UC Irvine, and Cal Poly. Berkeley doesn't seem so far off either. Stanford? Eh, roll a die.

Khulood

Yea I focused on a select few like my volunteer service at the senior center (my essays on that too) thats just a general sweeping overview

Khulood

bummp? sorry im just paranoid

bluenotebook2

Stanford's a complete curveball. pretty sure SLO's a safety, and that you'd be fine at most of the UC's

Khulood

thanks so much

Catria

Stanford - Reach
UC Berkeley - High match
USC - Match
UCLA - High match
Cal Poly SLO - Low match
UCSD - Low match
UC Irvine - Safety
Cal Poly Pomona - Safety

muckdogs07

Your resume is longer than mine, and I am 48 (lol). In any event, what comes through from skimming it is that you have performed exceedingly well academically, been active in your community, and done all of this while having to work to earn money. This is impressive. Curriculum = very strong. Should get bump by being female wanting to pursue the sciences.

Ok, here are my guesses. I know Stanford is ridiculously difficult and a reach for everyone. But I think you have a better than 50% shot there and that this isa good use of your SCEA/ED. Stanford loves vals and sals like you, your test scores are solid, curriculum competitive, EC's lengthy (lol; but also impressive).

Only draw back will be lots of students getting into Stanford for eng'g/sciences will have competed in state and national science competitions and/or done serious research either through their magnet school or local university. You have not done that, but you have also not had the opportunity to do that. I think Stanford will see all of your energy (focus on this in essays/application as opposed to just noting all of the things you have done) and in the end I suspect you will be a member of their Class of 2017.

The others are all matches/safeties.

Khulood

May I ask why cal poly slo isn't a match/safety?