<p>Gender: Female
Grade: Rising Senior
Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)</p>
<p>High School:
NorCal high school that sends very few Ivies each year. Class of 2008 only sent 1 MIT and 1 Cambridge, about 20 to UC Berkeley, and more than half to community college =[.</p>
<p>Financial Aid:
Definite yes. Only can apply to Ivies because of their new full-ride program. </p>
<p>Stats:
GPA: 4.667 W/3.9 UW
SAT: 2180
SAT ii’s: Bio-M 750, Math II 800, Chem 800
APs: CompSci A (4), Biology (5), Calc AB (5), Chem (5), U.S. History (4)
Rank: N/A (Should be in the Top 4% of a class of about 670 though. Don’t know if I’m anywhere higher since school doesn’t rank)</p>
<p>Significant Awards:
- Discovery Channel Young Scientist Competition (National Semifinalist)
- Numerous awards from 2 years of competition in Area’s science fair (Includes Overall Division Sweepstakes winner, placing in participating category, special awards from U.S. Navy, Air Force, Institute of Electronics and Engineers, etc.)
- Participated in California State Science fair in 2006
- Local Business Roundtable winner for 3 years, in a multitude categories like creative writing, journalism, science and technology, computer science, and etc.
- Won 3rd place for History Essay Writing Scholarship
- Placed 16th in State for the California Math League Competition in 2004; placed in top 5 scores for school and county in 2004 and 2005.</p>
<p>Significant ECs:
- President/Founder of Biology Club.
- President of the History Club (2 years)
- Member and coordinating chair for city’s teen council (2 years)
- Member of the California Scholarship Federation. (3 years)
- Participated in the Youth Leadership Conference on Asian and Pacific Islander Health at Stanford University during the summer of 2007.
- Helped organize a benefit concert for helping North Korean Refugees in 2007.
- Took a bunch of bio/chem/compsci/psychology classes at community college during my summers. All A’s.
- More than 200 hours of volunteering done for city and local hospital
- Been in band for more than 8 years and will continue in Wind Ensemble for my senior year (love band :P)</p>
<p>Work Experience:
- Worked at UC Berkeley for a month under a high-school internship nanotech/nanoscience program this summer (Summer 2008). Somewhat selective program, for only 15 high school juniors were let in from around California. </p>
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<p>Colleges (All RD):
*Brown
*UC Berkeley
*UCLA
*UC Davis
*Harvard
*Stanford</p>
<p>Debating on:
*Yale
*UPenn
*I don’t know? Suggestions please!</p>