<p>Objective:
SAT I: 2400
SAT II: 800 Math II, 780 Bio, 790 Chem, 790 Physics
GPA:3.95, 4.45 weighted
Rank:3/400
AP: 5 BC Calc, 5 Bio, 5 Lit, 5 USH 1
Senior Year Course Load: Vector Calc, AP Writing, AP Chem, AP Physics, Honors Orchestra
Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Math Team (Captain); USAMO qualifier; NHS (chapter president); potential president of student government (worried that I might have to campaign against some superpopular opponent that will be able to collect more votes than me from the student body); Region, All-State, and All-Eastern orchestras for violin (and without taking private lessons, if that makes a difference or a good essay topic)
Job/Work Experience: summers @ McDonald's
Volunteer/Community service: About 150 hours of tutoring
Summer Activities: working at McDonalds (I need to in order to support my family), taking extra math/science classes, and will apply to RSI and TASP programs
Essays: Will be original and well-written.</p>
<p>State: New Jersey
School Type: Decent public, sends a few kids to Ivies each year.
Ethnicity: I am an immigrant of Turkish and Russian origin.
Gender: male
Income Bracket: <40k, full FA or scholarship is a must.</p>
<p>By the way, I will be first in the family to attend college. I am looking to pursue a career in engineering or medicine. </p>
<p>Applying to all Ivies, Stanford, and MIT, along with a few as of yet undermined safeties.
Thanks.</p>
<p>P.S. Would it make a significant difference if I qualified for USA Chem, Bio, or Physics Olympiads?</p>
<p>You definitely have a solid shot at all of them, IMO.
Harvard-50%
Princeton-50%
Yale-50%
Stanford-50%
Columbia-60%
Penn-65%
Dartmouth-70%
Brown-75%
Cornell-90%</p>
<p>Good a chance as any, at anywhere you apply(: Assuming you don’t let your dog write your essays… Even then, you’d STILL have decent chances!(: But really, you’re pretty much assured entrance to at least 3 Ivy League schools, if you apply to all of them. Apply to some psuedo-Ivy League schools too, such as Stanford, Caltech, MIT, Duke, Northwestern, UChicago, etc. Good luck!(: </p>
<p>On a side note, I did think that my music involvement would be more significant. Is it not at least as hard and prestigious to make All-Eastern orchestra as it is to make USAMO? Or is it just because music is not related to my intended field of study?</p>
<p>I’m not sure; there are a lot of prestigious music things you can do whereas USAMO is basically the single accepted measure of extracurricular math talent, so it would seem that that stands out a lot more. As for USAMO, only about 250-275 people qualify each year from the entire US & Canada. (500 before it was split into USAMO and USAJMO). How many years did you qualify & did you ever make the summer camp? Do you know how well you did?</p>
<p>Even if you didn’t do well, making it is a big achievement; it’s not going to get you in anywhere by itself but with your already strong stats it’s a definite plus.</p>
<p>Nice chances everywhere. Low income, USAMO, First-gen, and amazing accomplishment with Violin, great academics. I’m not sure how not taking private lessons would not be a good essay topic. Seems more like bragging than anything else.</p>
Just write amazing essays and you’ll have a decent shot. (:</p>