<p>I just heard back from Caltech and MIT. Deferred from MIT Early, Rejected at Caltech Early</p>
<p>Now, onto the Stats...</p>
<p>Indian Male, CA, Competitive Public (like #3-4 in CA)</p>
<p>ACADEMICS
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**SAT: 2310 (M:780 W:800 CR:730 E: 8 lol ) This was my first, and last, sitting :)
SAT II: 770 Math 2, 740 USH, 730 Biology M
ACT: Composite = 34: 35 math, 34's everything else.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.63 UW. Approximately 4.24 W
Toughest courseload possible though... my current schedule:</p>
<p>AP Physics C
AP English Lit.
AP Chemistry
AP Gov./Econ.
Sociology
AP Statistics</p>
<p>10 AP's by the time High School's finished...</p>
<p>AP's: So far: Euro (4), US History (5), Bio (5) and Calc. AB (5)</p>
<p>School doesn't rank, but I'm pretty sure I'm in the top 10%</p>
<p>Recommendations: Both my Math and History teachers have asked me to come to them, and they've written awesome recs. My spanish teacher is also writing my early rec's, and I've heard that she's very, very eloquent on recs - and she loves me</p>
<p>Essay: Personally, I think it's awesome...one's about my favorite teacher/biggest influence, and the other's about toothpaste + me moving around and stuff - MIT topic. I'm working on one for Engineering...<em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Awards and Honors</p>
<p>Ranked in the top 65 in the Nation (my age group) in Chess.
Won a couple of state awards, couple of national awards, etc.
National 'A' Level ranking in the US Chess Federation.</p>
<p>AP Scholar with Honor</p>
<p>99th Percentile PSAT: Commended, I didn't get Semi-Finalist since my score wasn't high enough (mine --> 215, while the CA cutoff was 217).</p>
<p>Qualified for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (Yep. I got a 3, and I'm proud of it!)</p>
<p>IEC (Industry Education Council) outstanding educational achievement award given for exemplary participation in a Business 21st Century Institute.
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EXTRACURRICULARS**</p>
<p>Captain of the La Canada High School Academic Decathlon Team 2006. Participant since 2005. Team High Scorer too...</p>
<p>President/Co-Founder of the La Canada High School Chess Club.</p>
<p>Tutor/Teach low-income kids chess at the Boys and Girls Club - Since 2005.</p>
<p>Vice-President of La Canada High School Technology Club.</p>
<p>*RESEARCH
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2007 SpaceSHIP program (paid internship/research) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA. It was a pretty fun program; they selected 16 kids from High Schools around Los Angeles and paired us up with mentors and we worked on actual NASA projects/missions. I researched dust removal from photovoltaic (solar cell) arrays utilizing Electrodynamic Screens.</p>
<p>Supplementary: I think I'll get my mentor to write me a rec for both MIT deferral as well as for other schools. I'm submitting my abstract from this internship for all the schools...</p>
<p>Plus, the Undergrad. student I worked with is writing a Peer Rec for some of my schools (most notably, Dartmouth and Duke)</p>
<p>Found an economic way to remove fluoride from drinking water in developing countries. It was like a good intro to engineering/what attracted me to it.</p>
<p>Participated in the California State Science Fair 2004: Placed third in the LA County Science Fair for a project exploring the best catalysts for a Fuel Cell.</p>
<p>Took three Community College classes: Calculus I, Ceramics, and English 1A (basically AP English Lang). Good stuff.</p>
<p>Now the Major</p>
<p>My first choice major is Biomedical Engineering or Bioengineering. My second choice major is either Economics, or a Business management-type major . My eventual plan is to go to either Medical School or into Business School.</p>
<p>Here are the schools!</p>
<p>Caltech (Early Action - Rejected)
MIT (Early Action - Deferred)
UCLA
Cal (Berkeley)
UC San Diego (for Biomedical Engineering)
UC Irvine
University of Southern California
Stanford
Duke
Johns Hopkins University
Cornell
Columbia
Dartmouth
The Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University (I was already accepted w/ money to Arizona State University proper, just have to finish my app for the Honors College)</p>
<p>I'd appreciate any and all answers regarding my chances at the aforementioned schools.</p>
<p>Thanks! Sorry for making you read such a long post =(</p>