Chance Me - Engineer

<p>Current School: University of Toronto - Civil Engineering
Intended Transfer Major: Civil Engineering
Prospective Schools: UC Berkeley, UPenn, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon University, Caltech</p>

<p>Current Year: Rising Sophomore
College GPA: -3.42 first semester
-3.66 second semester (placing me in the top 15% in the class)
-CGPA: 3.54 (expecting substantial increase)
High School GPA: -in the 90s (80+ is an A)</p>

<p>Work Experience:
---College---
- Accepted into a 3 year internship program that allows me to work in all aspects of Civil Engineering (construction, consulting, government) created by the Government of Ontario
- Starbucks Barista for 6 months
- Piano Tutor</p>

<p>Awards:
- Destination Imagination 2013 University Level: one 1st place, two 2nd places, one 3rd place
- Concrete Canoe (a national level engineering competition) 3rd place overall in Canada - Structural Lead
- International volunteer internship program with Refresh Bolivia promoting sustainable infrastructure in the local community
- Many basketball and dragon boat intramural teams
- Various Canadian math competitions and physics competition top ten percent (high school)
- Osgoode Law school debate competition 8th Jr. speaker (high school)
- Royal Conservatory of Music Grade 8 Performance Test for piano</p>

<p>And a few clubs in both college and HS</p>

<p>Race: (Charming) Asian :)
Gender: M
Income Bracket: Enough. Will not apply for financial aid
Citizenship: Canadian</p>

<p>Any feedback would be highly appreciated :slight_smile: Thanks!</p>

<p>Solid work experience. The internship sounds pretty nice.
I think you got a fair chance at UCB
Good luck!</p>

<p>also what did you get on the SAT</p>

<p>I got two 800 on the Math Lvl 2 and Physics Subject Tests.
I haven’t taken the SAT Reasoning Test yet but I think I can get above 2250
thanks a lot!</p>