Orchids Can Get You into College...

It is finally the end of the college admission/rejection period, and I am pleased to announce that I got into several colleges with honors college offers and merit scholarships. I have decided to attend the University of Illinois @ Urbana- Champaign, which has given me a $14 K per year scholarship, $2K Department scholarship, and Honors College position.  I will be a crop science major with a concentration of Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology. I will be posting some of my essays in a later post.

Here's the final list:
Cornell University
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
Purdue University @ West Lafayette - [Honors College, renewable $10,000 Presidential Scholarship + $9,000 Department of Horticulture Scholarship]
University of Rhode Island - [Honors College, $15K per year merit scholarship]
University of Maine- [Honors College, $14 K per year merit scholarship]
UC Davis
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo [Boyle-McOmie scholarship]

All of these, I was either a Plant Science major or a Horticulture major emphasizing my passion on orchids and my desire to research plants. 

Here are my stats if anyone is interested in how to get into some amazing colleges through your passion of some genera of plants.  Honestly, c

olleges truly love it if one has a passion.

AP Classes:
AP Euro, AP US History, AP Statistics, AP Physics B, AP Studio Art, AP Calculus AB, AP Chemistry, AP Gov & Econ.
Honors Classes: Honors English (9,10,11), Honors Geometry, Honors Algebra 2, Honors Pre-Calculus, Honors Biology, Honors Chemistry.
Unweighted GPA: 3.94/4.00
SAT: 2060
SAT II: Physics: 670, Math II: 730

School Extra-curricular: Culinary Arts Club Secretary --> Vice President, FTC Robotics President, Varsity Badminton (3 years), Math Club Treasurer.

Outside Extra curricular:  Volunteer at UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, Conservatory of Flowers, member of American Orchid Society, member of San Francisco Orchid Society.

Awards: AP Scholar Award, 2013 Eric M. Imperiale Youth Award.