<p>I’m Chinese. And Texan. I like to expound on filial piety in a coquettish Southern drawl. Not really. But I’m pretty sure I’ve done that at least once!</p>
<p>Ahem. But yeah-- Chinese female attending a large suburban public school in central Texas. Green-carder-- not sure if that’s significant, except for financial aid purposes. School is of average caliber-- SAT scores in the 500’s, a handful of Ivy acceptances per class, a huge crowd matriculating to in-state public schools every year. Not bad, but nothing special. My class is unusually competitive, though-- we’ve got a record 7 NMSFs, of which I’m one.</p>
<p>Rank: 1/521
SAT: 800 CR, 750 M, 800 W (12 essay)-- 2350 from one sitting.
SAT II’s: 800 Bio E, 770 Math 2, 800 US History
APs: 5’s in Biology (11), Calculus AB (11), English Language (11), Environmental Science (11), Spanish Language (11), US History (11), and World History (10). One test away from National Scholar. :P</p>
<p>Senior Schedule: AP European History, AP Psychology, AP Statistics, AP Macroeconomics/US Government, Yearbook, AP Physics C: Mechanics, AP English Literature. And I have an off-period.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Yearbook: Page Editor (10, 11), Copy Editor (12), Student Life Section Head (12). I randomly have two leadership positions-- don’t think that’s happened before. We’ve also never head a copy editor before, so I’m kind of figuring that out as I go along.
Key Club: Member (10), Secretary (11), Head of Publicity (12).
Mu Alpha Theta: Member (10), Parliamentarian (11), Secretary (12).
Literary Magazine: Editor (10). It’s only available to members of the Creative Writing class, so I couldn’t continue working on it, but we did lots of stuff outside of school. A friend and I pretty much did everything.
UIL Literary Criticism: (10-12). I’ve been the top scorer on my school team since I joined, taking bronze at state sophomore year and becoming state champion as a senior. Not sure how much non-Texas schools will care, but I’m the first academic state champion from any discipline in my school’s history.
UIL Ready Writing: (10-12). Way less successful at this. I’ve got a silver from district junior year, but no one else medalled or anything. 
Other clubs: NHS (10-12), SNHS (10-12).
Probably about 100 volunteer hours, but mostly through my school clubs.</p>
<p>Hobbies:
I write for fun. Some random awards and random publishing credits, but nothing awe-inspiring. Did get a little money, though. :)</p>
<p>Summer Experiences:
-Interned for the local newspaper as a rising junior.
-Went to TASP at the University of Michigan-- Ann Arbor as a rising senior. <3 <3</p>
<p>Essays:
-I wrote my main common essay about listening to Vienna’s Teng “The Atheist Christmas Carol” on a green Christmas morning while waiting for my Beijing relatives to call. Attached a weird supplemental essay that came from my TASP application, relating my experience as an immigrant to Columbus’s discovery of Hispanola. I don’t really know how to explain it, but it’s sort of about the extent to which I’ve immersed myself in the mythos of the West, at the cost of losing some of my “Asian-ness”. And about how I don’t remember what I lost. That sounds really awkward, but it was previously published (which is why I didn’t want to use it as the main essay), and my principal, who read it as part of my NMSF application, claimed it made her cry. o.0</p>
<p>I think I tend toward pretty essays about cliche topics, but I try to look at them in an original way. It gets a little Maxine Hong Kingston, though-- I just can’t seem to stop writing about Asian stuff, even knowing it’s cliche, because I guess that’s what matters to me?</p>
<p>Chance me (pretty please) for:
- Brown
- Columbia
- Cornell-- Arts and Sciences, Human Ecology (I’ve been offered the Telluride House scholarship, which I think should help.)
- Harvard
- MIT
- Stanford
- UMich Ann Arbor
- UTexas Austin Plan II Honors program
- Yale</p>