Witty and humorous, even sarcastic, Cynthia Meng describes and meditates on her high school life as an Asian American. Junior year is about to start. With it come the challenges of SAT and future college applications. Cynthia, a fifteen-year-old American born Chinese, has been asked by her anxious mother to use her "good English" to write a fiction and get published so as to make herself "outstanding" to potential Ivy League admission officers. Highly skeptical and rather unwilling, Cynthia eventually yields to her mother's pressure and does indeed write a book of her own: instead of a fiction, a summer journal that delves into the real life of a typical Asian teenage high-achiever, and those surrounding her. With her fresh perspective, keen observations, smooth and witty writing skill, Cynthia touches upon some major aspects of her middle-class Asian-American family: the absurd frenzy about test scores and which college to go to, the nerve-wracking piano competitions, the pressures of a Chinese community church youth group, the psychological burden from knowing about the sacrifices made by immigrant parents, the contrast between the suburban middle-class and inner city Chinatown, and most importantly, the pervasive desire to define herself in a world of 'fobs' and white-washed Asians. Though a non-fiction narrative, it is quite captivating, sometimes delightful and comical, sometimes lovely and moving. It contains about 60,000 words and a few eye-opening documentary pictures. Cynthia Meng, an American Born Chinese, born in Evanston, IL on October 5, 1993, graduated from Campolindo High School of Moraga, CA in 2011. Cynthia Meng took her SAT in May, 2010 and had a perfect SAT score: 2400. She was the Choir President of Campolindo High School for 2010-2011. Cynthia Meng won Second Place, Senior Division, at Etude Club Young Artist Scholarship Competition 2010, for her piano performance. Cynthia Meng had received admission in 2011 to Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, UPenn, Dartmouth, Northwestern, UC Berkeley and UCLA. She was a winner of National Merit Scholarship Award. Cynthia graduated from Harvard University in 2015.