<p>Please chance me for top engineering and science schools. I would consider myself to be different from the usual applicants because of some of my experiences.</p>
<p>Academic:
SATI: super-score 2030 (570Cr, 660W, 800M); took 3 times
SATII: 800Math II; 790Math I; 790 Physics; 790 Chemistry
ACT: 30 (35M, 35S, 25 ranges for English and CR...)
AP: Physics B, 5 (Our school doesn't offer AP physics, took regular course and self-studied)
IB Diploma Candidate
HL courses: Math HL, Chemistry HL, English HL, Biology HL (school doesn't offer IB physics either...)
SL course: Chinese SL (A1; same level as course for native speakers), Economics SL (anticipated; 2 year course condensed to 1), TOK</p>
<p>GPA:3.94W
School Ranking: doesn't rank; small school with ~60senior students; quite competitive
- 3 acceptances to Ivies last year (Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell)
- Just started the IB program, we're the second class to use it
- Only AP offered is AP Statistics (easy A; didn't take)
- Math HL and Chemistry HL are known to be the hardest courses especially for year 2 (received As in both)
- School located in Asia; I am a U.S. Citizen</p>
<p>Freshmen year: Bad grades; mostly Bs
Sophomore year: Average grades; ~4As and ~3Bs
Junior year: Best grades with most challenging courses school has to offer; All As expect a B+ for a semester in Chinese
Senior year: pretty good grades; still taking the most challenging courses</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Math Club president and co-founder;
Athletic Council President (12th) and Activities Coordinator (11th)
Tennis; school doesn't offer but took lessons outside, 7+ years
Varsity soccer, 3 years, Co-captain during senior year
Tutoring, quite active</p>
<p>Unique experiences:
-Taught monks in Nepal Math during the summer before Sophomore year
-Attended a summer science camp (most prestigious science camp in the country) and had the chance to meet top-scientists, including a chemistry Nobel Laureate. As the representative, I presented our team's poster on innovative concepts to the Nobel Laureate, which he later gave me his contact card (yay!)</p>
<p>Awards/recognition: Not that many, just some minor school awards. Best recognition would be the acceptance to the summer science camp (which was highly selective)</p>
<p>Teacher/Counselor's recommendations: Should be pretty good. Especially one from my chemistry teacher as she was my supervisor for my extended essay, which I looked into graduate-level materials (MO theory and FMO theory)</p>
<p>Acceptances/results so far:
Accepted to Purdue's Engineering school
Deferred for MIT</p>
<p>Other:
Ethnicity: Asian Male
Income bracket: Average</p>
<p>What are my chances for:
MIT!!! (possible to be accepted in March again..?)</p>
<p>Going for physics:
Stanford
Princeton
Harvard
Berkeley
UCLA</p>
<p>Going for engineering:
Cornell
Vanderbilt
Caltech
Georgia Tech.
Tufts
Carnegie Mellon
UCSD
Urbana Champaign </p>
<p>Once again, THANK YOU!!!</p>