First of all, I don’t really like the idea of Chance Mes, because they don’t really provide an accurate answer of if I will get into a certain college or not. HOWEVER, I would like to use this discussion to ask what I perceive to be very important questions.
A little bit about myself:
I am aiming for universities like the Ivies, MIT, UCB, or UCLA. I would like to study either medicine, Bioengineering, or computer science (Yes, I know, I’m a little wishy-washy).
I am an Asian male. I go to an unranked big public high school.
Here are my questions:
MY QUESTIONS ARE: Do you know anyone who has gotten into great schools similar to the ones I listed above? How does my stats compare with theirs? Do you think I am missing something? Thank you.
Here are my stats:
Academics (as of Summer 12)
Acad 10-12: 4.0
Acad Overall: 3.9259
Acad Overall Weighted: 4.6296
Acad Overall Weighted Rank: 5/502
SAT: 1460 (this was the June 2018 SAT… #rescorejunesat?? lol)
SAT II Chemistry: 700
SAT II Math 2: 700
AP World History: 5
AP Calculus BC: 4 (AB Subscore: 5)
AP Chemistry: 4
AP English Language: 5
AP Japanese: 5
AP US History: 5
Activities:
- Individual School Band Score Project (11) self-conducted a project to compose a score for the school band self-composed a 10-minute long score for the school concert band used knowledge of music and jazz theory to my extent to create a fun and melodic piece that is fit for the school level
- Music Composition (8~) composed for the school video bulletin composed for school film projects half self-learned and half lesson-learned the piano self-studied music and jazz theory entered many composition competitions, including the NAfME Young Composers’ Competition performed piano piece for an annual elderly home event
- Music Business Founder and President (10~) composed original orchestral compositions working on an Alternative Rock Album and an Orchestral Album built business from scratch by promoting my music through Instagram, Soundcloud, and Youtube designed my own website from scratch connected with people in and outside my school who likes my content collaborated with my tennis coach, who is also a former producer
- Summer Internship at the Torrance IT Department (11, 5 weeks) replaced all phones in the district’s schools with new CISCO phones deployed a new image for laptops and desktops for the schools deployed new equipment in different classrooms helped break down and set up computer labs assisted with cable management projects configured client-server terminals invited as an alumni-mentor program for the 2018 applicants
- Founder and President of Patients in Need Club (11~) raised awareness for the patients in poverty conducted fundraisers to raise money for a local hospital created brochures and posters to raise awareness for the patients conducted clothes-drives, food-drives, and book-drives for the patients
- Vice President of the Junior Society (11~) worked with the Patients-in-Need program at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center helped raised over $7000 for the less fortunate patients at the hospital co-assisted the annual summer festival and pre-sale fundraisers held meetings every other Friday and assisted the president and other officers in conducting the meetings assisted and co-conducted monthly fundraisers, events, and group-bonding events
- Internship at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (11~): {assigned various duties} shadowed the various staffs in the hospital assisted visitors to the hospitals in the ER-Triage department guided injured patients from the urgent care department to the cast room and X-ray room delivered patients’ specimens to the laboratory worked as a concierge and led confused visitors to the appropriate locations filed important employee health documents assisted the blood donor department managed office phones
- Varsity Tennis (9~) self-conducted a donation to better the condition of the courts (our courts are EXTREMELY dirty); raised over $500 so far self-conducted a team survey to see how the members view the team self-wrote a constitution for the team listened to everyone’s concerns about the team and typed up a proposal to the coaches for potential changes (this proposal alone led to better drills, better weekly schedules, and better organization in terms of lineups) participated in annual varsity matches assisted the captain in the annual summer programs
- Founder of Japanese-English Tutoring Service (10~) self-conducted a project to provide free English tutoring service to native Japanese students connected with a school in Kashiwa, Japan and communicated with the students there hosted Eikaiwas, or video communications in English designed an original website for my project messaged the students in English and corrected their grammar
- National Honor Society (11~) tutored students in various subjects, ranging from Biology, Chemistry, Algebra, to Calculus assisted native Japanese students in understanding materials in English textbooks completed over 30+ hours of tutoring and community service
- Kumon Summer Part-Time (12~) Still waiting for the job offer
Awards:
Mira Costa Team Tennis Championship (9)
Silver Medalist of the annual Youth Japanese Haiku Competition (9)
Graduation of Nishiyamato Japanese Academy (9)
Gold Medalist of the annual PTSA Reflections Contest, Music Composition Division (11)
AP Scholar with Distinction (11)
Candidate and Alternate for the American Legion Boys State (11)
Competed in many music composition competitions, including the NAfME Young Composers Competition (11)
National Honor Society (11)
California Scholarship Federation (11)