Are my extracurriculars good for super competitive colleges?

JP6201
Sun, 22 Apr 2018 21:18:41 +0000

PLEASE TELL ME WHAT I COULD IMPROVE ON (I know I have little time)
I’m currently a High School Junior.

Awards:
Silver Medalist of the annual Youth Japanese Haiku Competition (held at Japanese school, 9th grade)
Gold Medalist of the annual PTSA Reflections Contest (Music Composition Division, 11th grade)
Candidate and Alternate for the American Legion Boys State
Competed in many music composition competition, including the NAfME Young Composers Competition
Student Awards from AP US History and AP Chemistry (So far that are confirmed)
National Honor Society
California Scholarship Federation
Aiming for AP Scholar

Extracurriculars:
Music Business Founder and President (10~): composed original orchestral compositions, built business from scratch by promoting my music through Instagram, Soundcloud, and Youtube, designed my own website from scratch, connected with people in and outside my school who likes my content, collaborated with my tennis coach, who is also a former DJ

Music-Psychology Research (still in-progress)(11): self-conducted research showing which genres of music affect the human brain a certain way; composed 10 different genres of music and had close relatives, friends, and teachers complete a certain task while listening to them; recorded data; working on publishing research pretty soon

Music Composition (8~): half self-learned and half lesson-learned the piano, self-taught the music theories of over 20+ genres of music, ranging from classical to baroque to hip-hop, entered many composition competitions; performed piano piece for an annual elderly home event, was nominated as a temporary composer for the school video bulletin

Summer Internship at the Torrance IT Department (11, 5 weeks): replaced all phones in the district’s schools with new CISCO phones, deployed new image to laptops and desktops for the schools, deployed new equipment in different classrooms, helped breakdown and setup computer labs, assisted with cable management projects, configured client server terminals

Founder and President of Patients in Need Club (11): raised awareness for the patients in poverty; conducted fundraisers to raise money for a local hospital; created brochures and posters to raise awareness for the patients; conducted clothes-drives, food-drives, and book-drives for the patients

Vice President of the Junior Society (11): worked with the Patients-in-Need program at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; raised over $7000 for the less fortunate patients at the hospital; held meetings every other Friday and assisted the president and other officers in conducting the meetings; assisted and co-conducted monthly fundraisers, events, and group-bonding events

Internship at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (11): {assigned various duties} shadowed a doctor for a month, assisted visitors to the hospitals in the ER-Triage department, guided injured patients from the urgent care department to the cast room and X-ray room, delivered patients’ specimens to the laboratory, worked as concierge and led confused visitors to the appropriate locations, filed important employee health documents, assisted the blood donor department, managed office phones

Varsity Tennis (9~): self-conducted a donation to better the condition of the courts (our courts are EXTREMELY dirty); raised over $500 so far, listened to everyone’s concerns about the team and typed up a proposal to the coaches for potential changes (this proposal alone led to better drills, better weekly schedules, and better organization in terms of lineups), participated in annual varsity matches

Founder of Japanese-English Tutoring Service (10~): designed an original website, connected with two Japanese schools with the help of my parents and my AP Japanese teacher, tutored English via facechat and message, toured a group of Japanese ambassadors around the school campus

National Honor Society (11~): tutored students in various subjects, ranging from Biology, Chemistry, Algebra, to Calculus

Working on Currently:
Programming a mobile app
Write a score for the school band

Planning to do (or WAS planning to do):
MIT Launch X: still waiting for interview and letter (90% sure I’m denied)
UC Davis Young Scholars Program: waitlisted; still waiting for letter (iffy)
Red Cross Summer Internship Program: haven’t submitted my form yet
Quarter Zero Catapult Incubator: haven’t submitted my form yet
Enter more music competitions and math competitions

School Info:
Location: California
Rank: Unranked, very uncompetitive (only offers around 14 APs)
Type: Public
Population: 2500-ish

Academics so far:
APs taken: World History (5) ← was the only one offered for Fresh/Soph years
APs taking now: US History, Calc BC, Chemistry, Eng. Lang, Jpn. Lang
GPA so far: 3.96 (UW), 4.67 (W)
Class rank so far: 6/502
SAT: 1450 (planning to retake)
SAT II: Math II 720, Chemistry 700 (planning to retake)