<p>Hey CC, </p>
<p>I'm a rising senior at TJ (competitive, magnet public school in VA), and I'm looking forward and feeling nervous about the college admissions process at the same time. If you would be so kind as to chance me, I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you!</p>
<p>Race: Indian
Sex: M
High School: TJHSST
Class Size: ~460
Rank: School doesn't rank, but I'd say top 10%.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.95 UW, 4.452 W
SAT: Test 1{800M, 750R, 800W}, Test 2{780M, 800R, 800W} --> Combined = 2400.
SAT II: Math 2 (800), Chemistry (790), Physics (800), Spanish (770)
AP: 5s on all (Biology, Chemistry, Calculus BC, Computer Science A, Environmental Science, Physics C: E&M, Physics C: Mechanics, Spanish Language, Statistics, US History)</p>
<p>Awards:
*AIME Qualifier
*USACO Silver Division
*National AP Scholar (expected)
*Siemens Award for Advanced Placement (expected, not 100% sure but usually it comes from our school and I don't know anyone else who might be doing it)
*School's science fair (first round of ISEF basically) - 2nd Prize Animal Sciences (Received February 2011), 2nd Prize Mathematics (Received February 2012)
*Lemelson-MIT Inventeams Excite Award (Received April 2012)
*Jefferson Academic Letter - (Received November 2010, November 2011)
*Crew Varsity Letter (Received June 2011, June 2012)
*National Spanish Exam Gold Medalist 99th percentile (Received May 2010, May 2011, May 2012)</p>
<p>EC:
*Nanotechnology Club (4 yrs, President)
*Lemelson-MIT Inventeams (1 yr)
*Crew (4 yrs, 1st boat senior year. Hoping to get recruited and talking to Harvard, MIT, and Princeton)
*Physics Team (3 yrs, Lecturer)
*Spanish Honor Society (3 yrs, Tutor)
*BigSib Program (4 yrs)
*and MUN for 4 years, but I'm not sure how helpful that is.</p>
<p>*Also working on interviewing multiple scientists in nanotechnology, which I will try to compile into a short book and get published.</p>
<p>Employment:
Summer 2012: Working at a government research lab on chemical sensing using nanotechnology (submitting to Siemens/Intel)
Summer 2011: Working at USC on defining the genetic components involved in diabetes (This was more about learning how to research)</p>
<p>Schools as of now: Harvard, MIT, Caltech, Princeton, UPenn, UVA, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Duke, Columbia.</p>
<p>EA/ED: Probably at Harvard, MIT, or Princeton depending on which coach is the most interested in me.</p>
<p>That's all I have.
Enjoy your summer!</p>