Chances for Princeton ED? Thanks.

virtuoso_735
Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:32:45 +0000

Demographics: Asian male
Low-Income family, from poor neighborhood (don’t know if this makes a difference. From SF Bay Area. First generation immigrant (from Vietnam) and first generation college student.

Unweighted GPA: 3.95
Class Rank: 1 out of 415

9th grade classes (unfortunately I chose a lot of fluff classes, no Honors or AP available):
-English 9
-Geometry
-Biology
-French I
-Piano
-Prep for College
-Academic Readiness (required for incoming 9th graders)
-P.E.
All A’s

10th grade (my school switched to period schedule; only Honors available was Chem):
-World History Acc
-Chemistry Honors
-French II
-Alg II/trig
-English Acc
-PE
All A’s except one B second semester in English

-11th grade (basically I took the most difficult classes I could, my school is quite limited):
-Anatomy/Physiology H
-Physics
-French III
-AP US Hist
-English H
-Precalculus
Grades: A’s all first semester, second semester I had one B in anatomy

Summer of Junior year I will take an Art class at a community college so I can get all my classes I want for Senior year.

Senior year classes (changing back to block and AP’s go the whole year):
-AP Literature
-AP Calculus AB/BC
-AP Environmental
-American Gov’t/Econ H
-French IV H
Don’t know about my grades as I haven’t taken the class, but I think I will get mostly A’s.

EC’s:
-Not much I must admit. I will have done a state-wide piano exam for 4 years, and the last year I will be participating in the Panel, somewhat like a competition. Also, I probably will be competing in a regional piano competition. I play classical piano.
-Playing keyboard for church band.
-3rd degree brown-belt in karate.

SAT I score: 2020 (will retake and hopefully get 2100+)
730 CR, 680 M, 610 W

SAT II’s:
-USH 770
-Will take math level II and literature

AP Scores: 4 in USH and 4 in English Lang.