chance me going to ucb ucla ucsd (reaches btw) and all other ucs
demographics:
- rising junior
- kinda competitive bay area public school
- mid income idk how that works still
- asian female
- moved from hong kong before soph year
intended major: neuroscience/psych/computational bio (still exploring)
minor maybe? in marketing or business
stats:
- gpa: 4.0 UW / 4.26 W (assuming i maintain the grades for junior year)
- testing: 1300 SAT (retaking and aiming for 1450+ in december) 610rw 680m
- rank: school doesn't do ranks
- ap coursework: 1 so far: AP Psych (4), taking 4 next year (AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Calc BC, AP Lang), 5 senior year (AP stats, AP spanish, AP micro, AP amgov, AP art (for fun)]
- might self study macro and hug?
- i took a clc 1 course so i can take bc
- igcse coursework (is that even considered): all A*/As
- currently exploring ap self study options - my school restricts aps hella
us high school ecs
- founder of hosa club - turning into a chapter in senior year (starting junior)
- founder of sailing club (starting junior)
- media officer of international club
- robotics - idk if i should continue next year our team is kinda butt
- vars badminton - district league champ
- high school sailing - decent results, 6th in norcal divisional
hk school ecs (freshman)
- founder of model un team + club - officially led school team to their first event
- founder of international relations club
- student council body
- vars badminton - div2 national champ (idk why its national its js hk lmao)
- vars volleyball - international school league div2 silver
- vars sailing - not big in hk
ec
- CEO of sport mental health nonprofit - recently passed on to me, had lots of groundwork done
- competitive club sailing - decent results in hk and us, won 2 regattas
- summer volunteer at local sailing club
- joint high school-middle school music mentoring program (1year)
- stanford clinical neuroscience immersion experience - capstone project is in ongoing development
- marketing internship at fintech/crypto firm (4months)
- vp marketing of medical nonprofit (10months)- grew insta account from 8k to ~24k followers
- paid part-time job at mathnasium
- building online tool for medical research
- gonna do usabo upcoming year (usnco?)
- no published research yet - heard some bad stuff about lumiere? idk what to do guys maybe cold emailing is the tech
- independent research on fmri memory mapping with epilepsy
- finalist at asia pacific science comp 2024 - not a big competition, researched viability of cornstarch based bioplastics
- shortlisted john locke essay in 2025 (i forgot about it this year...)
other:
- abrsm grade 8 piano
- abrsm grade 8 cello - former principal of string orchestra in soph year (lower orchestra), former assistant principal of symphony in freshman (hk)
- first aid/aed cert
- working on sailing coach license
- abandoned digital art insta acc lol it had 1.1k followers
(should i do hospice?? do i even have time)
i feel like the ecs are too broad and not much depth idk
Posted Jul 25, 2026, 11:41 PM UTC
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