<p>Asian female (International)
Massachusettes, small private catholic high school
Linguistics/Communications&Journalism</p>
<p>4.0 UW
4.6 W
3/105 rank</p>
<p>(my grades this year actually aren’t that grade because ap english…:(</p>
<p>2160 SAT (750R 700M 710W(8))</p>
<p>Subject Tests: French 800, Math 2 770, Biology (didn’t get the score yet but it’s probably not that great…)</p>
<p>Course Load:
- Sophomore AP: French (5) - didn’t take class,only took the exam
- Junior APs: US History (2-yr-course)
- Senior APs: English Lit, Calc AB, US, Psychology
- The school does not offer many ap’s. I took all of the ap’s I could take except one.</p>
<ul>
<li>Hook
International (Asian)
Lived in France when I was little
Writing skills?</li>
</ul>
<p>Extracurriculars:
- published a French speaking book
- tutored French since young age
- Wings - a Korean student-run organization that writes English books to teach English to underpriviledged children (I was a member of the Creativity Dep’t that did the writing)
- Internship at the Media Dep’t at an Outdoor News magazine in Korea (did translating, market research, interpreted…) during sophomore year summer
- Intern at International&Foreign language dep’t at school senior year
- was an assistant teacher at French class at school(9th grade)
- Assistant teacher at a Korean School in Boston (2 years)
- member of international club, french club, key club, mun
- violinist-classical ensemble at school
- jv girls tennis (10th)
- used to work at my dad’s hospital (family responsibility)
- Harvard Summer School (11th)</p>
<p>Honors:
- French National Honor Society
- Spanish National Honor Society
- School Honor Roll
- Some school awards for highest grade in some classes
- Awards from Le Grand Concours (National French Exam) Level 4,5</p>
<p>Recommendations:
- History teacher 8/10
- Spanish teacher 8/10
- Counselor 8/10</p>
<p>Common app essay: I wrote about sth like struggling to define my identity as i experienced hardships because of the transitions I went through when i moved to korea-france, france-korea, korea-america. </p>
<p>Strenghs: solid gpa, somewhat interesting background?, unique(?), consistent and focused ec’s
weaknesses: somewhat weak sat score, not many ap’s maybe my ec’s are not that strong…, not really showing leadership, being an international student</p>
<p>list of schools:
Brown ED (Deferred)
U Mich Ann Arbor EA
Northeastern UA</p>
<p>RD’s in order of preference</p>
<p>UPenn (Communications school)
Columbia
Northwestern
Georgetown
UC Berkeley
WUSTL
BC
Emory
Carnegie Mellon (my sister attends here)
UCLA
USC
NYU
George Washington
BU</p>