<p>Hello everyone! Aside from just "chance me", I </p>
<p>really want to know what more I can do to make it </p>
<p>into schools like Columbia, for instance.
Let's take a look:</p>
<p>My Background:
1. I'm a Junior in high school.
2. Before high school, I went to a public school.
3. ~190 kids in my grade
4. Don't have a given GPA or class rank (if we
did... oh very very very bad things would occur)
5. I'm lucky enough to be made out of a lovely
composition of clinically diagnosed
ADHD&Dyslexia...#lovemylife. Plus I don't take
advantage of this, I guess my family and/or I am
too proud to take extra testing time... etc.
6. I'm not like a lot of the kids in my school:
aka my parents dont make 6-figure salaries, and I
don't drive a benz.<br>
7. My parents are just confused about everything,
so no one really knows what we have to do or
what's going on in terms of admissions, as I am an
only child. </p>
<p>My Grades/GPA/Classes:
- I really don't have that much to go off on.
- I have rougly an B+/A- average
- I'm in the honors mathematics track. I happened
to not only be lucky enough to be in this track,
but I got all the hardest teachers each year
WITHIN the track. -_-
- This year, I'm taking AP Biology, and Honors
Physics/AP Physics B
- I'm a science and math kid through and through.
(plus compsci!) Straight A biology (no honors
offered, all classes "honors level"), chemistry
(no honors offered, all classes "honors level"),
physics honors, computerScience1, &
computerScience2 student, but not an A honors math
student... because attaining an A with my teachers
is a godly act deemed impossible by mortals (I'm
honestly not exaggerating)
- I'm known as the kid that "pays rent" to the
Computer Science labs and the mathematics dept.
office xD. </p>
<p>Standardized Testing:
- Well, I gotta get to that, don't I...?
- However my practice SAT's at home are
consistently >2250, and I only started studying 2
weeks ago, so when I study daily for an hour for
the next month, i'm not too stressed over my
scores (after my school tests, these tests aren't
a huge deal.)
- Same for subject testing. Taken practice tests
always >770, but I gotta actually take them... </p>
<p>All my other shtuffff: (aka extracurriculars)
Ready?</p>
<ul>
<li>Main engineer on FTC Robotics team</li>
<li>Internship with app development company</li>
<li>women's award in computer science</li>
<li>science magazine editor</li>
<li>Philosophy club</li>
<li>Martial Arts club founder</li>
<li>Science quiz bowl founder</li>
<li>physics team (1st in state finisher!! :D)</li>
<li>science reasearch program</li>
<li>protein modeling reasearch program team</li>
<li>ocean science club founder</li>
<li>science olympiad</li>
<li>computer science club</li>
<li>technology publication editor</li>
<li>philosophy publication founder</li>
<li>Zero robotics competition programmer</li>
<li>First Lego League mentor</li>
<li>Part of a program that teaches faculty members
technology skills</li>
<li>Web and mobile development team &
instruction founder & head engineer/instructor
-Math team</li>
<li>Math publication writer and editor</li>
<li>Piano player (12 years)</li>
<li>independent iPhone app developer</li>
<li>worked on an app with Hunter College</li>
<li>the highly selective Columbia Science Honors
Program</li>
<li>2 genetics laboratory workshops and programs
every summer, 3-4 summers</li>
<li>outdoors club</li>
<li>Program that assists science teachers with
organizing labs and curriculum and writing HW</li>
<li>One of the core members of an entrepreneurial
group literacy campaign, its grown pretty big and
started to spread states</li>
<li>I've done math camps</li>
<li>Online learning(CTY, AoPS, udacity, khan
academy)</li>
<li>I've done CTY (but hasen't everyone?)</li>
<li>Play music with a group at nursing homes and
other community centers for free</li>
<li>I rock climbing (woohoo!)</li>
<li>3rd Degree black belt at karate (don't scoff at
this, working every day for 10 years at this)</li>
<li>a community service team at my school, where i
am enacting a program at local middle and
elementray schools that teaches robotics</li>
<li>School swim team</li>
<li>out of scool swim team</li>
<li>water polo team</li>
<li>tutored underprivledged kids in the NYC area for
free weekends</li>
<li>teach kids at schools computer science and
development, as well as entreprenurial skills</li>
<li>starting a program that teachers battered women,
children and impoverished martial arts for free
-Started a program that teaches underprivledged
but bright and enthusiastic kids competition and
"fun" math (i love math :D)</li>
<li>I've written so much computer code, both for my
own distibution, and one for the math department
in my school that has been implemented as a
teaching, testing and HW aid</li>
<li>Math circle outside of school</li>
<li>list of math contests... blah blah (you math
people know the drill of contests everyone
does/wants to do)</li>
<li>Model UN</li>
<li>Debate Team</li>
<li>Play Flute. Used to be in band. </li>
<li>I write classical music. </li>
<li>Ive entered and won poetry contests</li>
<li>Part of a creative writing group</li>
<li>I sketch</li>
<li>My cooking skills blows everyone else's my age
out of the water... not to be humble or
anything... :P Im sorry I just like food </li>
</ul>
<p>... I think that's about it...
... I think all around I like a couple of </p>
<p>overarching activities that has led to all of
these: Math, Engineering, Compsci, Science
(basically STEM), Swimming, Karate, Rock climbing,
Music/arts side/COOKING, Philpsophy/debate.
some one please let me know if my ADHD is evident
from this post's rambling. </p>
<p>Other concerns:
- I was going to take APComputer Science this
year, but it couldn't fit into my schedule b/c of
core classes conflicts.
I have a question. Becuase I didn't take APCS in
my junior year, will taking it in my senior year
as oppsed to my junior year still convey the same
enthusiasm and passion I have for computer
science?
-Becuase my schedule is designed (everyones
shedule actually) to not allow one from taking a
high number of courses and AP's (max 5 classes,
max 3 Honors/and/or/APs combination), does taking
tests without the classes bolster my admissions
chances?</p>
<ul>
<li>If I DO take APCS my senior year, there is a
likelyhood that I will have to drop a history
course in order to take it. This means I will have
only taken history for 2 years. Could I get some
thoughts on this?</li>
</ul>
<p>Thank you guys so much in advance for taking the
time to read this and give advice! :D</p>