<p>I vowed myself when I applied not to create a chance thread, but recent applicant horror stories have made me extremely uneasy. Please tell me if I have a decent shot with my EA app.</p>
<p>3.88 Unweighted GPA
4.76 Weighted GPA (IB program, hardest courseload)
4 out of 662
ACT score: 31
Teacher recs: Pretty good to exellent
Counselor Recs: Not counting to be very personal. My school counselor handles about 400 students.
Asian Male (crap), moved to the US when I was 6</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: I’m only listing the really major ones. I have a bunch more smaller ones that I had on my resume. </p>
<p>Piano: 11 years
Golf: 3 years, Varsity Team
Rotary Interact Club: Founder 11, Pres. 11-12
Peer tutoring: about 3-4 hours a week all 4 years.</p>
<p>Awards: I don’t have many awards because of my lack of applications the first 2 years of HS and because of limited oppertunities.
Rotary Youth Leadership Award - Scholarship for Camp Royale
Stockton Symphony Guest Artist Master Class performer
IB certificate of Merit
Coaches award from Varsity Golf</p>
<p>Camps:
University of the Pacific music camp
National Student Leadership Council
Camp Royale
and a few more minor ones</p>
<p>Work at Youngrowth Toys as a Sales Rep and a secretary: 14 hours a week
So far, I’ve made deals worth about $8000 in sales and earned $1000 commission this way. The company “pays” me by giving me surplus toys to donate.</p>
<p>As for the essays, I wrote a short, sweet, but kind of sterotipical response for question 1. A huge, detailed, and very personal response for question 2.
Finally, I wrote a weird, long, symbolic essay for quesiton 3. </p>
<p>The third essay is what I’m worried about because it contained so much symbolism in there. The form is in a literal Twilight Zone episode and all my messages are hidden in the events of the episode. </p>
<p>Lastly, I come from a very poor school in the central valley, and I mentioned (hidden of course within the third essay) the hardships of being an immigrant and moving once every year during HS (but stayed within the same HS). </p>
<p>Please reply soon and rid me of some of the anquishness.</p>