<p>i was wondering if you guys could evaluate my chances for the top schools in the country for undergrad computer science.
I am applying to
MIT
Stanford
Carnegie Mellon
University of California-Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego
Cornell
University of Illinois-urbana-champaign
University of Washington
Yale
Princeton
Caltech
Harvard
Brown
Upenn</p>
<p>Activities:
Computer Science Club - Founder in grade 11. President for grades 11 and 12. I coordinate our activities, and we compete in American Computer Science League (ACSL) competitions.
High School Table Tennis Club - Vice President in grade 11 and President in grade 12
Table Tennis Club - participant for grades 7-12 (club in town)
Chess Club - Cofounder in grade 11. participant in grade 12.
First Robotics Team - programmer for grades 9-12
Vex Robotics Team - participant in grade 11
Spell Bowl - participant in grades 10, 11, and 12
National Honor Society - participant in grades 11 and 12
Math Superbowl - Participant for grades 9-12
JV Tennis - participant in grades 9-11
Varsity Tennis - participant in grade 12
Staff Parish Committee member at church - I was selected to be on this committee in grade 11
Youth Board I was selected to be on this committee in grade 12
Church Youth Group - participant and unofficial leader for grades 6-12
Volunteering through my Church - 291 hours of volunteering in high school through 2 new orleans missions trips(one during spring break of 2010 and one during summer of 2010), 1 jamaica mission trip(summer after freshman year), service projects, and service to the underprivileged - This is for grades 9-12.</p>
<p>Awards:
AP scholar(received this award by scoring 3 or higher on 3 or more AP tests. I took 4 ap tests my junior year, where I only had one AP class) - grade 11
American Computer Science League top scoring student ribbon at my high school - grade 11
Regional champions for math superbowl in our class division grade 11
State Champions for math superbowl in our class division - grade 11
Spell Bowl Regional Champs grades 10, 11, 12
Spell bowl State Finalists - grades 10, 11, 12
Regional Champions for our First Robotics Team - grade 10
Medals won through table tennis tournaments - grades 7-11
High School First and Second year academic awards - grades 10,11
Tennis conference champions grades 9, 10, 11, 12
Tennis Sectional champions grades 11, 12
Tennis Regional winners grade 11
Tennis Regional finalists grade 12
Tennis Mental Attitude award grade 12
Tennis Academic Excellence award grade 12 (highest gpa on team)
Tennis Academic all-state award grade 12</p>
<p>All A's except for freshman year when I got a B in honors english. I will probably get a B in AP English Lit in my senior year. (same teacher teaches both classes and she's really tough)
Class Rank: 8 out of 202
Weighted GPA: 12.0444 (out of 12)
I have taken and am taking all my high school's honors and AP courses. Since there were no more advanced classes to take, I am taking a college class at a local community college for dual credit.</p>
<p>I also took 4 ap tests in my junior year while only have 1 ap class.
AP US History: 2 (this is where I had my class. I received a 2 because I decided not to study for the exam since I would have pretty much had to learn all of the material by myself. This was the first year that we had this class, and the teachers who taught it didnt do anything. I would have not taken the exam, but our school requires that we take corresponding AP exams with the class.)
AP psychology: 5
AP US government: 5
AP Computer Science A: 3 (received a 3 because did not study and only wanted to evaluate skills in Java that I learned from my high school programming class.)
SAT:
Math - 770
Writing - 570
Reading - 610
I'm going to retake the SAT, and this time I've studied my grammar and vocab and taken many practice tests. I'm hoping I can get somewhere in the 700s for writing, and I'm hoping I'll break 700 for reading.</p>
<p>SAT IIs
math level 2 - 800
chemistry - 730 </p>
<p>Pretty good rec letters talking about how I overcome adversity.(each evaluator has seen me go through different situations of adversity)</p>
<p>Also, my father has a mental illness, and we are relatively poor so I've written about the stuff we endured as a family, and how I came out of it stronger. Plus, I've mentioned in some applications that I intend to write a book about my mother and father because they have a pretty amazing story, and my father's life is kinda like the movie, A beautiful mind. I think my family situation can help make me diverse from the other applicants.</p>
<p>I am also from the midwest.
Lastly, I am half asian(southeast) and half white. I am probably not going to put my ethnicity on applications since I would probably be a disadvantage.</p>
<p>For those of you who have read this, thanks and please give me some feedback!</p>