I know you all love chance threads

rocket_summer
Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:00:32 +0000

Public HS, California, California Distinguished school, and National Blue Ribbon (top 10% of hs’s in the country) so very good/competitive
Male
Asian/White

GPA: UW:3.7, W:4.1 as of end of junior year; very rigorous cirriculum

SAT I: 2250, 740 CR, 780 M, 730 W, 10 E

SAT II: 800 math IIC, 710 US history, 690 chemistry

APs: Bio 3 (but I took it in freshman year, so yeah), CompSci A 5, took US history, chemistry, statistics this year (think I did pretty well except for chem), 4 more next year (US gov, calc bc, physics, english)

Planning on taking the ACT just to see how I do, will report if 34 or +

Rank: unranked, but top 10%

Senior year sched: AP US gov/reg econ, AP calc BC, AP physics, AP English, spanish 3, humanities

ECs:
Very into music, play 4 instruments, piano esp. for 9 years; definitely want to continue pursuing music in college
Level 9 on Certificate of Merit piano competition type thing
Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do
2 Silver medals in a big tae kwon do competition
Volunteering consistently at a retirement home
Camp counselor at a music camp over the summer
Class at UCLA over the summer (biopsychology)
Research at Pepperdine University in genetics/molecular biology
In a couple community service clubs at school (not just for show, actually participating in stuff) and president of one
Math tutor at school, part of the math honors society
Other stuff I can’t remember

Planning on majoring either in biology or statistics

I know a lot comes down to the essay here, but what do you think?
And do SAT IIs carry much weight in admissions?