Chance Who? Chance me!

light10491
Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:30:07 +0000

Asian-American Male
Top 20 National Public High School
New England
First Generation College Student
Low-income background

GPA: 3.83 weighted now, perhaps 3.91 weighted after midyear
Rank: Top 15%

Major: Undecided

SAT: 2140 (retaking)
Subject Test: (might retake in January when i take my 3rd subject test)
-Math 2: 760
-US History: 730

AP tests:
-Chemistry: 4
-Computer Science: 3
-US History: 3

Extracurriculars:
-Co-Captain of Swim Team (6 year membership)
-Co-President & Co-Founder of “Unnamed Club” which raises money for schools in northern Uganda (3 year membership)
-Co-Vice President of American Red Cross Club (6 year membership)
-Co-Captain of Science Olympiad Team (4 year membership)
-Mayor’s Youth Council (2 year membership)
-State American Red Cross Youth Council (3 year membership)
-Tutor at a Library (3 years)
-Co-Founder of school’s Humanitarian Umbrella which unites all the humanitarian groups together
-School newspaper helping copy-edit
-Other minor clubs with no leadership positions
-Piano
-Science Bowl Team Member
-School asian club (former officer, member for 6 years)
-Captain for Science trivia competition held at ivy league school
-School volunteer (2 years) in the library and hallway monitoring

Awards:
-Some awards for extracurriculars (like Red Cross fundraising competitions, science olympiad state 1st place for one event, 3rd place in science trivia competition at ivy league school)
-State Awards for Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (2 years)
-AP Scholar award
-Random school awards for having good grades (as in no C’s)
-Certified at a level in Arabic language
-Essay published in Nucleus Magazine (not that major an article, just a biography of a famous scientist and explaining in depth their discovery and how their invention works)

Summers:
-Studied arabic (full year course taught within 1.5 months)
-Took a psychology course at an ivy league college
-Worked at a college library
-Worked for public library program which taught younger kids science
-Worked at a boy’s and girl’s club teaching art/music/science
-Volunteered at a hospital (2 summers)

Other:
-Taken courses at a university (no grade given)
-Attended programs at an ivy league medical school in 8th, 9th, 10th grade

School year jobs:
-Besides tutoring I have none
-I might get a part-time job after January 1st, perhaps bagging at the grocery store if I can’t find an internship or afterschool job



I KNOW, my GPA SUCKS like crap
any hope?

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