Demographics
- US Citizen
- State/Location of residency: California
- Public High School, well ranked
Intended Major(s)
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
- Unweighted HS GPA: 3.96
- Weighted HS GPA: 4.48 (10-12 A-G UC)* Class Rank:
- SAT Scores: 1530 (780 math, 750 english)
List your HS coursework
- English: 9A, 10A, American Lit H (Sem), Creative Writing (Sem), AP Lit (Senior)
- Math: Geo H, Alg2/Trig H, Analysis H, AP Calc BC (Senior)
- Science: Bio H, Chem H, AP Chem, AP Bio (Senior), AP Phys C (Senior)
- History and social studies: World Hist, US Govt/Cont. World Hist, APUSH, AP Econ (Senior)
- Language other than English: Japanese 2, 3, AP
- Visual or performing arts: Freshman Band, Wind Ens (3 years), Jazz Ens H (4 years)
- Other academic courses: CS Capstone, Living Skills (Sem, Senior)
Awards
- JLPT N4 (2024), N3 (2025)
- Unanimous Superior / Gold 1st at various band/orch comp as lead trumpet
- All State Band
- Presidential Volunteer Service
Extracurriculars
- USACO Silver, 1700 Codeforces
- Tri-M Music Honor Society
- Vice President (Junior), President (Senior) of Japanese Culture Club
- Chartered and Secretary of Card Game Club (3 years)
- Competitive Programming Club
- Sailing Racing Team (Freshman)
- Made website for Japanese Teacher
- School District AI Ad Hoc Comittee member
- Intern at Semiconducter Company
- Another Internship
- Tutorted SAT and AMC 8
- Various CS Projects (Websites, Manga Translator)
Essays/LORs/Other
- Likely strong essay, good lors
Schools
- Assured: ASU (acecpted, thus no other safety)
- Target: Purdue, UWM, UMass, Stony Brook
- Lower Probability: UIUC (CS+Linguistics), UMD, Northeastern
- Low Probability: Harvey Mudd (CS+Math), UChicago (JP Studies), Tufts, JHU, Rice, UMich, BU, Carnegie Mellon (JP), GIT
I Intend to apply CS or Mathematics for most schools unless noted otherwise