Demographics
- US domestic (US citizen or permanent resident) or international student: International student (I have been in the US almost my whole life with a Visa).
- State/Location of residency: (state is important if you apply to any state universities): Michigan
- Type of high school (current college for transfers): Large competitive public HS
- Gender/Race/Ethnicity (optional): Asian Male
- Other special factors (first generation to college, legacy, athlete, etc.): Nothing here
Intended Major(s) Intended major is Electrical and Computer Engineering (Or just electrical where ECE isn’t a thing) with a minor in Business/Management and Philosophy.
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
- Unweighted HS GPA: 4.0/4.0
- Weighted HS GPA (incl. weighting system): school doesn’t do weighted GPA
- College GPA (for transfers): N/A
- Class Rank: School does not rank
- ACT/SAT Scores: 1560 (760, 800 math) ; 34 ACT (35 with super score)
Coursework
(AP/IB/Dual Enrollment classes, AP/IB scores for high school; also include level of math and foreign language reached and any unusual academic electives; for transfers, describe your college courses and preparation for your intended major(s)):
Freshman Year: H Algebra 2 ; H English ; PLTW engineering ; Spanish 2 ; Biology
Sophomore Year: H Pre-calculus ; H English ; H Chemistry ; AP Psychology ; AP World History (Scored a 5 on both AP exams)
Junior Year: H Physics ; AP Calculus AB ; AP Chemistry ; AP Statistics ; AP Comp Sci Principles ; AP Language ; IB Spanish Year 1 (AP Scores not out yet for the 5 exams, but predicting mostly 5’s)
Senior Year: Engineering Intern ; DE Business Math ; AP Economics ; AP Physics C, AP Spanish Language ; H Calculus 2 ; AP Comp Sci ; AP Literature (A total of 8 Exams since Econ and Physics are 2 each, and H calculus 2 is the Calculus BC exam)
Awards:
DECA State finalist and Internationals participant
IB MYP certificate
STEAM fair most creative award
District education board recognition for an organization
99% chance of NMSF and NMF
edX engineering course certifications
National Honors Society ; Spanish Honors Society ; Computer Science Honors Society ; Rotary Interact certificate
Honor Roll (Summa Cum Laude next year) ; Perfect Attendance awards
Extracurriculars
(Include leadership, summer activities, competitions, volunteering, and work experience)
Helped create a massive tutoring non-profit organization (VP of it). Offer free online tutoring to unprivileged students. Over 2000 successful sessions ($30,000+ saved for families) across 20+ states and 5 countries in a few months ; Many big partnerships and lots of news features. I spend 15 hours a week for it with no breaks.
Co-founder of a school club focused on the circular aspect of using our natural resources. We create events to advocate for our cause. Conducted a shoe drive in partnership with an organization and raised over 2000 shoes ($50,000+ worth of shoes).
Co-founded a club to teach Cricket to students with over 30 members.
VP of a library student organization (lead events and help around the library). Also part of an organization there for summer volunteering and an organization centered around fundraising there. Spent a lot of time at the library volunteering.
Coached a Science Olympiad event at a middle school (Reach for the stars). Students came 1st at their regionals.
JV Bowling team for 2 years (Possible varsity senior yr but unlikely). Varsity Tennis (JV 1st year and Varsity 2nd year probably). Varsity T&F (Did all 4 yrs, Varsity senior year). Big commitment here.
DECA training team member. Pretty self explanatory, its a business related club. Did principles of finance and business services marketing events. (Won regionals all years and was a finalist at states).
Artificial Intelligence club, Science bowl, and math Olympiad member.
Gave a ted talk on social media’s harmful implications.
Indian American student association member.
Built a desk completely from scratch for a personal project (Its harder than it looks lol)
MMSS (program at uofm) over summer. Doing a course on cryptography and number theory.
Essays/LORs/Other
(Optionally, guess how strong these are and include any other relevant information or circumstances.):
Counselor Letter (7.5/10): She knows me pretty well. I met with her a solid amount and gave her gifts every winter lol.
H Chemistry teacher (8.5/10): Amazing teacher, knows me well from 2 semesters of school. Did well in her class, asked questions, and was a great student overall. She is also the advisor for a club I founded
AP Lang teacher (8.5/10): Great person, extremely smart. Had many great conversations with him and was one of few kids who always kept the cam on. Spoke a lot in class, wrote him letters of appreciation since I loved the class a lot. He also mentored me for an organization I helped create. Note: I got an A+ in his course too.
Cost Constraints / Budget
(High school students: please get a budget from your parents and use the Net Price Calculators on the web sites of colleges of interest.): Since I am not a citizen, I can get no federal aid. We have a budget of around net expenses of 35k/yr.
Schools
(List of colleges by your initial chance estimate; designate if applying ED/EA/RD; if a scholarship is necessary for affordability, indicate that you are aiming for a scholarship and use the scholarship chance to estimate it into the appropriate group below):
Note: I am applying EA everywhere they have it
- Safety (certain admission and affordability): no worries about these. Michigan State, Wayne State, Michigan Tech
- Likely (would be possible, but very unlikely or surprising, for it not to admit or be affordable): Texas A&M and Purdue
- Match: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ; Umich (somewhat since our school is a feeder)
- Reach: This is where I need some guidance. Northwestern and Cornell are on the list with an opening. I’m thinking about UPenn as well. One of them will be my ED (Price dependent!)
Note: I would like a humanities touch to my college experience, but I would still want to go forward with engineering. That’s why I’ve been looking at ivies.