<p>Asian, Female, VERY competitive Connecticut top high school, Junior</p>
<p>SAT:2130 (first time, didn't study, confident will get 2250+ when I retake)
SAT IIs: expecting mostly low 700s</p>
<p>GPA: around 3.87-3.89 UW
No Class Rank</p>
<p>All honors, hardest course load possible.
AP scores: World History (3), other 4 AP tests that I took this year aren't looking good.. expect to get 3s and 4s</p>
<p>AWARDS/HONORS
-Intel ISEF 3rd Place Grand Award (as well as many special awards and scholarships)
-Siemens Competition Semifinalist
-a few journal publications pending
-Scholastic art gold key
-many awards at local science fairs
-NHS
-Spanish Honor Society
-Italian Honor Society
-Music Honor Society</p>
<p>Job/internship/volunteer:
- local Youth Council (150 hrs) spend a LOT of time helping to lead community projects and advocate for new legislation
- after school program volunteer (50 hrs)
- tutoring (40 hrs)
- NASA JPL Intern
- science research for chemical engineering project at local U for a year</p>
<p>Leadership
-Vice president of 2 clubs</p>
<p>Other ECs
- JV/Varsity swimming (3 yrs including senior)
- basketball (used to be on JV but quit b/c schedule got intense)
- photography
- piano (no awards)
- website building</p>
<p>Letters of Rec:
-1 teacher: good, but ordinary
-1 teacher: great, but not "best in career"
-guidance counselor: pretty good
-EXTRAORDINARY rec from lab mentor</p>
<p>Essays
will be pretty unique and creative :-)</p>
<p>I know my stats aren't great but I spend hundreds of hours on research and it takes up most of my time. </p>
<p>Chances at:
(all for engineering)
MIT
UPenn
Cornell
Columbia Fu
Duke
Wash U at St. Louis
Carnegie Mellon
John Hopkins
Brown
maybe even Harvard, Princeton, and Yale??</p>