LIST: Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, UPenn, Cornell, JHU, UChicago, Northwestern, Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon.
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Not a legacy anywhere except my public university.
Public School ~1500 students
Income: ~$80,000. Single mother
Intended Major- Linguistics/Classics and Biology (would love the Harvard Human Evolutionary Biology)
ACT: 35 Composite. 36 math 35 english 35 science 34 reading
SAT II: 800 Math II, 780 World History
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: School doesn’t calculate
Rank: around 5/400 not really sure. One of less than 10 4.0 students…
AP Scores
US History 5
World History 5
Computer Science A 5
French 5
Calculus BC 5
US Government 5
Biology 4
Senior Year Course Load:
AP Literature
AP Physics I
Full time enrollment at a major public university:
First Semester:
Linear Algebra
Graduate Level French
Elementary Arabic I
Premodern Chinese Literature.
14 Semester Hours total.
Second Semester Schedule (Probably)
Elementary Arabic II
Vector Calculus
Elementary Russian
14 Semester Hours Total
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semifinalist, Le Grand Concours (National French Contest) Gold Laureate (95% percentile nationally)
EXTRACURRICULARS:
Math Team 4 years (senior captain)
Mock Trial 4 years- placed 7th out of 32 at very competitive state championship.
Very much devoted to these 2 activities…
Counselor at a YMCA summer camp- I spent the entire summer (10 weeks) in the middle of nowhere as a counselor for kids 5-14, had been a camper for 11 years. Spent 4 and 3 weeks there in the summers before that, respectively. Story of my life, honestly. Have over 300 volunteer hours there, too.
Essays: I wrote 2 essays for commonapp, will probably use the second for Harvard/Princeton supplemental essay. The first one is about my undying love for cooking and how I’m a total nerd about it. The second is a bit more thoughtful, but still shows me really well; it combines my problem of getting lost in bookstores, my love for linguistics, and dealing with my Dad’s suicide 3 years ago.
For the record, I won’t read any of these recs…
Teacher Rec #1: English teacher grades 9 and 11. Loves me. Will be excellent. She told me she spent the summer working on it.
Teacher Rec #2: Calculus/Aerospace Engineering teacher grade 11. Knows me well. Should be good. 9/10
Additional Rec: From my “boss” (friend) at summer camp, who 9 years ago had me as his camper when he was 17 and I was 8, has literally known me my entire life. 10/10 or better.