Chance at UPenn, Duke?

randomafk
Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:30:49 +0000

Well…first post here. I’ve been reading this site for a while, but just registered. Sorry if i’m doing this incorrectly

So…basic info about myself.

Asian American

SAT: 2170 (720 r, 730m,720w)
-planning to retake it oct. 10th, I think i can score above a 2300 or at least a 2250
SAT II’s:
World History: 760
Chemistry: 800
Math 2: 770
PSAT(don’t remember it too well) ~ 206

County’s grading scale:
94-100=A
90-93=B+
84-89=B
etc
County policy not to rank, so not sure about that – but i’m probably top 10% of the class
Overall GPA(unweighted) = 3.74

Grades(unweighted) (I didn’t do so well freshman and sophmore year, was pretty immature back then…)
9th = 3.57;
10th = 3.64;
11th = 4.0;
12th = (pretty good chance of getting straight A’s)

Math:
Geometry honors: B+
Algebra 2 (summer course): A
Precalc. honors: B+
AP BC calculus: A
AP Computer Science A: A

Science:
Honors bio: A
Honors chem: A
Honors physics C: A
AP chem: A

AP Exam Scores
AP CS: 4 (not sure what happened…)
AP WH: 4
AP AB/BC calc: 5
AP chem: 5

Other possibly relevant courses:
Spanish 2-3(where i got my B’s), AP World History (B+), usual core classes(took all honors first two years, but switched to regular for humanity courses 11th/12th grades)

Current courses:
AP macro/micro econ, Multivar. calculus/matrix algebra, AP stat, AP bio, AP Physics C, english 12, government

Extra curriculars for Science
-Science Fair (ISEF) every years, won a bunch of awards on the regional/state level
-Science Olympiad for since 10th, went to nationals last year, and got some awards at
state level
-Chem olympiad - qualified for national exam
-Summer student/intern at a research facility over 09-10 summer for 10 weeks (going to submit my project from there to Siemen’s and Intel STS, and probably ISEF too)
-Member of science honor society since 11th(Trying to make a site for them to help organize the blood drive, right now.)
-Participated in some other competitions (brain bee, science bowl)

Other Extra curriculars:
-Did a bunch of math competitions, probably around 5 or 6 (didn’t win much though…)
-Co-president of amnesty international
-Member of Math and National honor societies, key club
-(soon to be) founder/president of chemistry club
-model UN since 9th, and webmaster since 10th
-Co-president of Chinese student association
-AP scholar, I think.
-Robotics, officer
-Computer Science Club, co-president

Misc:
-Did a bit of volunteering in my chinese school(where i went until 10th grade), raised some donations to the red cross following the sichuan earthquake
-Attended some educational and leadership camps over the summer
-I’ll add more as I remember

Any commentary is appreciated, and I’ll add any necessary information necessary so long as it’s not too revealing of my identity.

Also, if anyone has any recommendations for what I should write in my essay and info sheets for my counselor/teachers, that would be appreciated. Would it be best for me to apply to the liberal arts/science or engineering schools, and what other colleges might I want to look into?

Thanks in advance!