Tips for a Junior? Thoughts? Will chance you back :)

penguinboy9867
Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:20:59 +0000

Hi guys, I’m currently a rising junior, and I was wondering if you guys could help me out by looking at what I’ve done and what I plan on doing.

I hope to go to Penn as my first choice (ED)…Pre-med with something (biology or psych) as my major.

Asian Male
Top 100 School Last Year - Public
Gifted Program
Class Rank: Top 2%
Cumulative UW: 3.96 Cumulative Weighted: 4.71

Freshmen Year:
Gifted Trig
Gifted Sophomore English
PE (req’d)
Concert Band
Gifted Chem
Chinese 3
APWH

I received a total of 1 B…so, UW: 3.93 W:4.5

Sophomore Year: (thus far, and I’m now a IB diploma candidate)
Gifted Precalc
IB Chinese 4
Health 1st semester - Gifted Theory of Knowledge (2nd)
IB Music Theory
IB SL Physics
APUSH - IB
IB/AP English 10

UW: 4.0 W: 4.85

Gifted Precalc
IB Chinese 4
Gifted Theory of Knowledge (2nd)
IB Music Theory
IB SL Physics
APUSH - IB
IB/AP English 10

UW: 4.0 W: 5.0

Junior Year: (Currently)
IB/AP Calc
Ib/AP 11 English
TOK - then team sports (fill PE req)
IB Physics HL
IB Bio SL
IB Chinese 5
IB/AP US GOV

UW: 4.0 W. 5.0

If i manage to get all A’s and maybe 1 B, should be fine right?

Senior Year: (projected by the principal)
Psych 101 and bio?psych 202 from the local university (a good one) comes to the school
Intro to Comm and Intro to Short Story Writing
IB/AP Calc HL
Ib/Ap Chinese 6
Ib/Ap AP Chem
Last two periods will be filled by internships that the school helps arrange

Test Scores:
SAT I. CR: 750 M: 730 W: 650 Retake this upcoming January…I usually get 800,730, 730 range.

PSAT - 218 =/

SAT II. USH - 750

APWH: 5
AP Lang: 5
APUSH: 5

Many more to come =] =[

Extra Currics:
Track and XC Freshmen Year
XC Soph Year, I lettered - will do track and xc for the rest of high school. plan to letter from now on.
Band, 5 years (includes marching band where we play in the macy’s day parade etc)
Piano, 10 years
National Honor Society
Volunteering at the local hospital
Volunteering at the local science center
Various other services such as food banks etc.
Business Week - Company Leader, 2nd place
IB Student Council
JSA
Youth Venture Youth Advisory Board
Started up an organization that collects school supplies and donations for less fortunate children within the school district and abroad. For example, we held a drive for Guatemalan children and raised over 750 dollars and various supplies.

Awards:
AP Scholar
Humanity Award

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Thanks!