Chance me - will chance back

xappiness
Sun, 12 Jul 2015 04:21:39 +0000

I’ll try to make this as concise as possible

ACADEMICS

GPA: unweighted 4.0, weighted 4.34
Class Rank: #1/340 for unweighted and weighted
SAT (first try, will attempt again in fall): CR 730 W 690 M 760, overall 2180 (I know, not great)
SAT II: Lit 780, Math 2 750
APs:
Freshman - compsci (5)
Sophomore - human geo (5) stats (5)
Junior - calc ab (5) psych (5) chinese (5) lang (5) micro (4) apush (3)

EXTRACURRICULARS

Leadership/Volunteering:
-state director/coordinator for the campaign for a national youth council
-founder of a debate camp for low-income students
-founder of an afterschool computer science club at a local elementary school
-founder of a computer science workshop for girls (am applying for a couple grants, if those don’t work out i’ll get the money from sponsors)
-founder of a peer tutoring club
-president of Math and Science club
-historian of Spanish club
-debate captain (been on team since freshman year)
-Young Democrats of America volunteer (make phone calls etc)
-about 200 hours community service

Job:
-Summer job (25 hours a week) tutoring at a tutor center
-Private tutor (currently have about 4-5 students)

MAJOR AWARDS

NCWIT Aspirations In Computing National Runner-up

numerous regional speech and debate awards

state DECA awards (first place in two events)

National AP Scholar -other smaller awards

I am female Asian who goes to a public school in a geographically underrepresented area
My essays will be decent but not amazing
Many of these are reaches, but I’m interested in:

Stanford
Harvard
Yale
UPenn
Georgetown
Northwestern
UChicago
Brown
Cornell
Williams
Claremont Mckenna