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Away-Ad4729

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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