<p>Hello everyone, I told myself I was never going to post any kind of chances thread, but I guess I succumbed to pressure... I hear back from Middlebury this week, and I was just wondering where I stand among other candidates. Thank you!</p>
<p>Info:
Senior, Class of 2014
Attend a public high school of more than 2500 kids (600+ in my senior class)
Permanent Resident of U.S.</p>
<p>Academics:
GPA:
Unweighted: 4.00/4.00 at the time of application (I received one A- in English in my first semester of senior year)
Weighted: No clue, 4.something
Rank: 4/626 (Top 1%)</p>
<p>ACT: 34 (35 English, 35 Math, 31 Reading, 34 Science, 12 on Writing) One sitting, only took it once
SAT: None
APs: AP Physics B (4), AP Biology (3), AP Calculus AB (5), AP Language and Comp (5), AP US History (4), AP World History (5)
Senior year Courseload: AP Computer Science, AP Chemistry, AP Music Theory, AP Literature, AP Statistics, Philosophy
IBs: None, school doesn't offer haha
SAT II's:
Math II- 800
Physics- 740
I just took two cause most schools except schools like Georgetown only requires two... and I only took the ACT and not the SAT and ACT doesn't really require SAT IIs but I still took it cause it looks better, i think haha</p>
<p>Activities:
-Co-President of Academic Coaches, a peer-to-peer tutoring club. Level 10 Achievement (100 hours of tutoring)
-Editor-in-Chief of the School newspaper club. We brought back the school newspaper after it has been inactive for over 4 years, and I wrote about it in my essay, so that might be good.
-Treasurer of the Debate Club (Placed 5th in State for Oratory, Triple Ruby member in NFL)
-Piano (Placed 4th in State in the Piano category, volunteer pianist at a retirement center every Sunday. 2nd place in Washington Youth Music Competition)
-Marching band member for 2 years (not really significant)
-Voted Homecoming Court and Student of the Month <---- I'm not sure but I included those in my additional info section in common app, is that okay? They chose 10 seniors from 626 people</p>
<p>Job:
Work at a Frozen Yogurt Store twice a week
Private Tutoring for two students</p>
<p>Summer: Sophomore year I worked as a research intern for an anesthesiology lab and learned a lot about working with equipment. I think this was more of a learning phase than actually doing stuff.
Junior year I worked as a research scientist at a pharmacology lab where I actually conducted my own experiments and was responsible for a significant portion of the publication the lab was working on. When the paper is published, I will be credited as one of the co-authors (it has not been published yet, and I don't think it will for a while). I'm also on the lab website as one of the research members.</p>
<p>Miscellaneous activities:
I self-published a book on Amazon from a blog that I have been working on since my freshman year. It's 230 pages, and it deals with influential people and their turning points.</p>
<p>I published 16 articles online through a student-journalism program called jstudentboard.com. One of my articles was featured in a dutch tourism website to promote Disneyland-Paris (I wrote an article about our marching band going to Paris and they wanted to use it haha)</p>
<p>Recommenders: English and Math teacher for rec letter. Pretty sure they were alright, don't really know cause I haven't read it.
For additional recommenders, I asked my research mentor and my principal. Principal's recommendation was awesome, not sure about research mentor's but shouldn't be bad or anything since we spent the whole summer together).</p>
<p>Asian Male
Hook: none
Major: Neuroscience and Music
Applied for Financial Aid</p>
<p>Thanks so much for reading through this post!</p>
Thank you everyone who commented on my thread!</p>