<p>Please chance me</p>
<p>GPA 3.75/4.29 (10+11) -- I had surgery junior year first semester
and that brought down several grades (4 Bs that semester)
SAT: 2120, 2240 (2260 with best scores)
SAT IIs: math 800 physics 800 ush 750
APs: physicsb 5 stat 5 ush 4
AMC 12: 144
AIME, USAMO Qualifier
Highly competitive public high school
Track & Field, Cross Country
Website Design
2 Summer Internships
250 Hours Summer Volunteer Internship
National Merit Commendation Letter
AP Scholar with Distinction</p>
<p>Great recs from math and foreign language</p>
<p>Assume OKish essays</p>
<p>ECs: not really any clubs except quiz club for 9+10</p>
<p>Interests: math, CS, econ</p>
<p>Quarter grades (do they count?): A A- A B B+ A- (6 APs</p>
<p>What ECs do you do during the year?</p>
<p>AIME and USAMO are really great but for school year ECs you have:</p>
<p>Track & Field/Cross Country
Website Design</p>
<p>That might really hurt you, but you definitely will get into some great schools. I’d say you’ll get accepted to at least one of HYPSM.</p>
<p>Your grades and scores should keep you competitive, but I’m not sure if you have enough leadership experiences to make you as competitive EC-wise. I would definately apply to some HYPSM schools, and with a bit of luck you could get into one of them. By no means should these be the only schools you apply to. Being from a “highly competitive” high school means a lot, but I don’t know what you mean by highly competitive. Also depends on what part of the country you are from and so on. A highly competitive public high school in kentucky is different from that in MA, NY, CA, and so on. It is a definate possiblity for you to get into a HYPSM school, just make sure to apply to some safeties.</p>
<p>Highly competitive in CA</p>
<p>During summer of 2006 I did an internship at a startup (they had 5 employees at the time) and worked on a social networking website that today has 1.4 Million members. I by no means claim that I made the site, I just helped the development team with some coding, helped come up with UI, set up servers. I did create something that was up for consideration but it has not been implemented on the site.</p>
<p>During summer 2007: I did an internship with a nonprofit for which I created powerpoints, brochures, program literature, and worked on the website. Hours: 250.</p>
<p>During summer 2008: I did an internship at a software startup (well, 200 employees, founded in 2000). I worked 40 hours a week 9 weeks during the summer with the development team as I helped create, code, and put together a new software application that the company is marketing to fortune 500 companies. The application is related to green IT.</p>
<p>I was not paid for any internships as I was at the time not a Green Card holder, therefore not authorized to work. My family got our greencard recently, so that is no longer a problem.</p>