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Regular Grades:
Unweighted GPA: 4.0/4.0
Weighted: (our school doesn't do weighted, but I estimate it to be about 4.72 or something)
Rank: 10/628, top 2%

ECs:
Violin (9th grade, Fall 95 - Spring 02)
National Honor Society Vice President
Math Olympiads Club Secretary
Interact Club President
March of Dimes member
Acatecs member (gifted students club)
Earthworks Vice President
French Club member

Volunteering:
Library Assistant
Teen Court Juror, Grand Juror, and Attorney
Peer Tutoring, esp. in mathematics (privately tutoring a girl in AP Calculus right now)
Paz de Cristo (feeding the homeless)
Tempe Cares (annual project to help beautify the environment and living conditions of underprivileged Tempe citizens)
Adopt-A-Highway (street clean up)

Awards:
American Mathematics Competition 12 school winner
qualified for AIME
State Math Contest Top 50
AP Calculus 1-2 Student of the Month
Math Olympiads Club Summer Quest: 1st Place
Academic Letter
National Honor Roll
National American Miss - Talent 2nd Runner-up
National American Miss - Spokesmodel 3rd Runner-up
National American Miss - Miss Arizona Semi-finalist

AP scores:
Calculus BC - 5
Macroeconomics - 4
(the rest are too low to list, which I am not going to put down on my college app.)

SAT I scores:
660V, 690M (1350)
taking them again in December

SAT II scores:
Math IIC: 760
Writing: 710
retaking math iic and writing and taking physics in november, estimated 800 math iic and writing, hopefully >750 physics.

Summer programs/other stuff:
PROMYS (Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists), 6 week program studying Number Theory... rivals with RSI (Research Science Institute).

Current classes:
Ap English
Honors Calculus 3-4 (which is actually Multivariable Calculus and Differential Equations)
AP Government/AP Economics, both one-semester courses
French 7-8 (we don't have Honors or AP at our school for French)
Honors Chemistry 1-2
Academic Decathlon preparation class, honors.
Advanced Studies - Linear Algebra at a local university.

Planning to take the following AP tests in May '04:
Stats, English Lit & Comp, Physics B, World History

Languages I know besides English:
Chinese (Mandarin, speak, read, write)
French (speak, read)
Chinese (Cantonese, read, speak)

Teacher recommendations:
- one really good math one, but it's from sophomore year
- one decent english one, junior year AP eng. teacher
- one pretty good physics and academic decathlon coach one (junior & senior year)
- one decent math one, from junior year and this year. (calc 1-2, calc 3-4)

Currently working on college application essays. Writing one about a Star Search audition I attended once (for singing).

I was thinking of sending in a vocal CD of mine, but would that increase my chances?

If I write a really good one, what are my chances for the following schools?

Single-choice EA Harvard (I know, no chance - but Harvard is looking for diversity, so they might pick me in a 1% chance because I was in a pageant and went to PROMYS)

Regular Decision:
UC Berkeley
UCLA
USD
Stanford
Yale
Cornell
Princeton
Harvey Mudd
Northwestern
U Penn
Duke

or any other schools that you can think of, besides local state universities?

Any questions? Feedback? Thanks!

BTW... I'm Chinese Female, been in US for about 10 years (was born in China...), native language was Chinese (so I cant use my 800 Chinese SAT II score).

By Xiaoxiannv (Xiaoxiannv) on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 03:13 am: Edit

By the way, if my counselor doesn't send my PSAT and AP scores to the colleges, would they mind? (especially Harvard) It specifically asks my counselor to send those scores, but my best friend who is currently attending Harvard said that AP scores are based on an honors system and colleges don't look at them until you have been admitted. (she applied last year, so she used the same form) The main reason I don't want to send my AP scores is because of my other ones that I didn't pass with a 4 or 5. My PSAT scores weren't too great either. I was top 10% in the nation... but that's not that great anyway...

Can someone tell me about whether or not I should ask my counselor to withhold my AP and PSAT scores?

By Xiaoxiannv (Xiaoxiannv) on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 03:53 am: Edit

I think I fit into the well-rounded category, but I don't know if my SAT scores are high enough to be accepted... any comments?

By Xiaoxiannv (Xiaoxiannv) on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 04:01 am: Edit

By the way, I won Photogenic 2nd Runner-up for the National American Miss also, but I didn't feel like putting that in, since it's kind of a useless award... but should I put that in?

By Xiaoxiannv (Xiaoxiannv) on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 04:01 am: Edit

C'mon, someone please answer me?

By Xiaoxiannv (Xiaoxiannv) on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 07:07 am: Edit

bump

By Obiwan (Obiwan) on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 01:29 pm: Edit

STOP the constant token posts and BUMPS in your thread. It clutters the board and is a violation of your Terms of Service. Repeat offenders will be banned. If people have something to say, they will. Please be patient.

--Moderator Obiwan

By Bluestar (Bluestar) on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 05:24 pm: Edit

It depends... Harvard is known to reject lots of good candidates.

By Shemarty (Shemarty) on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 06:02 pm: Edit

what does "bump" mean

By Xiaoxiannv (Xiaoxiannv) on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 06:56 pm: Edit

"bump" means bumping the thread to the top...

but I only bumped myself twice... and I got a warning from the admin. I really didn't mean to post so many at one time... it's just that I kinda forget something, and then I add an extra post...

does anyone think my stats and stuff are too long?

By Memememe (Memememe) on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 10:53 am: Edit

PROMYS does not rival with RSI. Keep hoping...

By Ecismyhome (Ecismyhome) on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 08:55 pm: Edit

what? PROMYS? Isn't that some sort of club that practices losing at Ultimate? That's what my MIT friends tell me...

By Memememe (Memememe) on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 09:22 pm: Edit

Yeah. PROMYS lost this year, but what's funny is that they also lost to MIT.

By Ecismyhome (Ecismyhome) on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 09:34 pm: Edit

Yeah. I mean c'mon. Who loses to those nerds?