<p>I am hoping for ones in California, but the good one tends to be extremly competitve, especially UCB. I know my grade and SAT is not really good, and I really lack leadership skills, so I really worry now. I want to stay in Calfornia but away from home (SF), but like I say they are competitive. So now, I am looking for some of the out of the states ones, I personally perfer that they are aroung CA, or at Northeast is there is where all the big cities are. I want a school that really concentrate on studying ( May surprise some of you, but I dislike parties, favorite place is art shop, library,and ice skating center!), yet still around city, and possibly nice hot and sunny weather. I work well with big and small school. I go to a pretty competitive and selective high school - Abraham Lincoln High School, and I am a Chinese born in Hong Kong, move to SF at around 9 years old but no ESL class in high school. Thank you your help in advance!</p>
<p>GPA 3.47
Critical Reading 580<br>
Math 640<br>
Writing 450
Will take SAT Chinese and Math 2 (Chinese is my native language)
AP this year: Art History, Enviromental Science
Past Honor classes: Japanese </p>
<p>EC (High School ones Only)
California Scholarship Federation (Freshman to now, active member since sophomore year)
School Red Cross Club member (Freshman till now)
Lincs (School’s service society, sophomore till now)
100 hour of volunteer work in St. Like’s hospital
Math tutor volunteer (Sophomore till now)
Sunset Teen Advisory Council (Junior till now)
Figure Skating Teacher Assistance (Since this July)
ACE (Architecture Construction Engineering, a program that let high school still learn about the career that are related to the architecture, etc. involve designing a model) 2004-2005, will reapply this year
Painting Studio (Um… last week - a teacher just started it! ^O^)</p>
<p>Work
SF-CRUE (San Francisco Communities Restoring Urban Enviroment)
(June Aug, 2004)
Tutor.com Live Homework Help Promotion Coordinator (Oct-Dec 2005)
Project Pull (Which assign me to work in a government architecture office)
(June - Aug, 2005)</p>
<p>Honor (High School onces Only)
Academic Excellence Award (2002 on Golden State Examination in First-year Algebra)
Volunteer Service Award (Spring 2003-2004, Fall 04-05)</p>
<p>Classes that show that I had challenge my self or special ones
3 year Japanese
All the regular science classes (Bio, Chem, Phy.) + AP Enviromental Science (although, almost all Bs and Cs)
Hardest math I could get till my senior year where I took Prob & Stat because of not wanting to kill myself with 3 AP (Geometry, Adv. Algebra, Pre-calculus & Trig, and Trig again in Skyline College this summer giving me high school and college credit), therefore, again, my grade is mostly Bs and Cs
Art and Architecture, Advance Architecture + AP Art History this year</p>
<p>For school, I am thinking about UCB, USC (I know, both impossible…), Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly SL (Both are consider “possible” school untill recently when I learn that their architecture program are really competitve…), Woodbury, and Southern California Institute of Architecture (safety school? But never heard about them…)
I can’t visit any of them because they are at the other side of the state, but I did visit UCB, but I didn’t get to see the architecture rooms because it is a high school group visit. So I have no idea how any of the school REALLY are…</p>