Freshman
AP CALCULUS BC (5) (1 B in a quarter)
AP HUMAN GEO (Self Study 5)
AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (SS 5)
Sophomore
AP JAVA (5)
AP STATS (5)
AP CHEM (4)
AP PHYSICS C: Magnetism & Electricity(5)
AP PHYSICS C: Mechanics (5)
APUSH (5)
CALCULUS III (All As)
AP PSYCHOLOGY (SS 5)
JUNIOR
FULL ENROLLMENT AT UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
(Linear Algebra, Differential equations & Vector Analysis, Quantum Physics, Modern Physics Laboratory) <Notable courses
AP LIT (SS 5)
AP LANG (SS 4)
AP GOV (SS 5)
AP COMP. POL (SS 5)
SENIOR
FULL ENROLLMENT AT UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
(Linear Algebra & Differential Equations, Directed Physics Research)
EC
USAMO QUALIFIER
USAPHO QUALIFIER - GOLD MEDALIST
ROBOTICS (~40 Hours a week) (~12 weeks) WORLDS COMPETITION X4
SPEECH (~6 Hours a week) (~ 18 weeks) NATIONALS X2
GOLD PRESIDENTS AWARD
NATIONAL MERIT
NATIONAL AP SCHOLAR
MIT THINK FINALIST
RSI ATTENDEE
STEM CAMP (for less fortunate in Minneapolis)
RESEARCH AT UNIVERSITY
INTERNSHIP AT AEROSPACE COMPANY
ISEF QUALIFIER
SAFETY
University Of Minnesota
University of Wisconsin - Madison
LOW MATCH
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
Purdue University
I agree you are a very competitive applicant for UCLA and UCB. Will costs be an issue since the UC’s give little to no financial aid to OOS students? If not, then best of luck.
You have a great profile (you sold me completely at “RSI Attendee”) - with Aerospace as major UIUC should be in the bag.
MIT and Berkely are always tricky (for everyone) but you have done everything you could…with good essays they are quite possible as well.
It appears you are already largely done with an undergraduate degree. Are you sure you need another? Why not stay another year or so at Minnesota to finish up and then go directly to grad school. Maybe take a year off to hitchhike through Europe or something like that. You may end up saving yourself two or three years and a couple hundred grand.
As far as your college chances are concerned, I’m sure any STEM program would love to have you. If you want to go to Stanford or Princeton, you will probably wind up in a pool for academic high-achievers where the odds are as high as 50% or above. But you will have to answer the following question (or some permutation thereof): will this kid fit in well, given that s/hes already mostly completed an undergrad degree, and does not seem likely to benefit much from our non-academic resources. Again there may be some question about whether you should be in grad school rather than in an undergrad program. You should address this in your apps.