Chance + Any advice

achinny
Mon, 30 Jun 2014 01:32:13 +0000

Going to be a senior in the fall and lost about colleges!

Academics:
APs: Euro, Calc AB, US, Lang, Psych (will take Gov/Econ, Lit, Calc BC, maybe Stats/ IB philosophy)
Honors: pretty much every subject (math, english, history, science) in 9th/10th grade except for Spanish 2/3 and Geography
Got foreign lang credit for Mandarin outside school (for 4 years)
4.4 weighted GPA
3.9 unweighted (one B haha…)

Extracurriculars:
Volleyball-2 years
Christian Club -3 years (treasurer soph year and pres junior year)
Speech and Debate- LD 1 year
Serve at youth ministry of church- 2 years
Volunteered with Tzu Chi foundation-5 years
Piano-10 years (did Certificate of Merit & received honors)

Test Scores:
SAT: 2000 and then 2090 (M:740 R:680 W:670)
ACT: 32 (M:33 W:34 R:34 essay: 9) and then 30 (lol)
SAT Subjects: Math2-790 US-780

Background:
Asian (Chinese)
Income <$40,000
Los Angeles

I really like reading, writing, thinking, and speaking. Liberal arts, humanities-- sounds cool. I’ve been thinking about going to law school in the future, but it’s so competitive and I’m not sure I can even afford it. I’m kinda interested in business, and for the longest time settled on going into some sort of business program. But then some people have been recommending to focus on English or History if I’m set on getting into law. Not sure what I should do but I want to be able to work in some business field if I end up not wanting to go to law school. Economics major maybe??? Kinda wanna double major with English or some minor in something cool.

Just been lookin’ at some of these schools. Good, bad? Try for it, no chance?
UPenn
UChicago
Notre Dame
USC
Claremon Mckenna
NYU
UCLA
UMichigan (Ann Arbor)

If there’s any other schools you guys think I should consider, please let me know! Thanks so much for your time!