<p>So I just got my SAT scores back and I'd like some feedback on my stats so far and on areas of where I can improve:</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800 M 670 CR 780 W (2250 combined, retaking in October to bring up the CR)
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: Taking Biology M, Chemistry, Math II (All should be high 700s if not all 800 after taking the respective AP Classes...)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 UW, might drop to 3.98
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2 or 3 out of 255
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Taking this year: Biology, Chemistry, Latin Virgil (self study), Calculus BC (self study)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP Statistics, AP Calculus (need credit in school), AP Economics, AP Computer Science A, AP Physics C Mechanics, AP Physics C Electricity and Magnetism (self studying), Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (CTY)
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 3 times summa cum laude on the national latin exam; will not know about AP awards, book awards, and PSAT awards until later; some wrestling awards
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 9 years playing piano, computer programming (web design, creating and selling video games locally) since 5th grade, three years varsity wrestling (captain next year), Engineering Club (I founded this year, will be organizing it for competitions for next year), independent study (math, programming, physics, and Latin; part of CTY since 3rd grade)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Tutoring through the school's special needs department last summer; did a one-time web design job for a local company last summer as well; will be looking for work this summer, probably something with computers
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: I am helping to fund and found a scholarship in memory of our late Latin teacher, volunteering with the youth wrestling team (coached at tournaments and helped out during practices), tutoring, some community service for confirmation
[<em>] Summer Activities: Work last summer, work this summer, will probably do MIT Junction Multivariable Calculus this summer, designing a website this summer/spring aimed towards approaching education in mathematics in a new way
[</em>] Essays: I am going to start working on my essays during the summer, so they should be very well composed and personalized for each school
[<em>] Teacher Recommendations: Both recommendations should be excellent and most certainly more informative than just "glowing"
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I keep in contact often with my counselor, and this rec (I am hoping) should be pretty good
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): MA
[</em>] School Type: usually is non competitive; this year is more competitive than most years though
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] Income Bracket: ~$100,000-$140,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): nothing comes to mind at the moment
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<p>My three top choices right now are Princeton, Harvard, and MIT. Brown, Yale, and JHU are on my second tier of choices by my personal preference. I am looking to major in physics, and I'd ultimately like to go on and obtain a PhD. Any suggestions of activities to pursue this summer? I am somewhat unsure about what to do. I am thinking that I should get a job and do the MIT program because I am interested in math. I really don't want to do research like most people are doing; it seems like just an application filler. I definitely know that I'll be making a website after AP stuff is done...right now I am preparing for the AP tests first. I am confident that I will do well on all of them, and hopefully I'll get all 5s or mostly 5s. What do you think? I'd like some suggestions. Should I try out some other activities? Should I improve in any area? Are my choices realistic. Oh, btw, for backups, I am still looking around, but I was thinking about applying to Boston College, Tufts, and Northeastern.</p>