<p>White male from Seattle, Washington.
Immigrant from Belgium (moved in 4th grade)
Perfectly fluent in English, French, Spanish</p>
<p>gpa unw: 3.96
weighted ~4.6
Class rank: 19/286 - Top 6%
(my school has a "gifted" program and they don't have to take some dumb freshman classes so of them take the top places of class rank. Kinda unfair. Without the "gifted kids" I would be 5/~240. Top 2%. My counselor noted it in her letter)</p>
<p>Full IB Diploma candidate</p>
<p>SAT:
680 math
710 cr
700 writing
2090 total</p>
<p>SATII:
740 on US History, 800 on French (waiting for Physics and Spanish test results)</p>
<p>AP:
5 on US History, World History, Calculus AB, French Language
4 on English Language (wierd)</p>
<p>IB:
5/7 on Physics SL
7/7 on Spanish SL</p>
<p>Senior Course load (all my classes prepare for IB and AP tests - my high school is in the top 20 hardest in the nation according to newsweek and other publications):
AP/IB History/Government
AP/IB Physics HL/B
Mathematics HL (equivalent of Calculus BC)
AP/IB English Lit HL
AP/IB Spanish 6 HL
AP/IB French A2 HL (french for native speakers - more like a lit class)</p>
<p>Honors:
National Merit Commended
AP scholar with distinction
High school nominee for best scholarship (GPA and love of learning) award 3 years in a row.
Top 3 in community service quantity at high school</p>
<p>EC:
- FIRST Robotics Team Personally started and headed the student store at my school. Made about $9000 for my Robotics team (sophomore year). Public Relations officer junior year (in charge of grants, corporate sponsors, communication etc.) Organized the 800 people kick-off of the competition happening at my school. Senior year Communications vice-president. Heading the PR and fundraising teams, graphics design teams and website design teams.
- Singer Voted best male singer at school, also participate in a well-known select private choir. We tour around the world (San Francisco, Costa Rica etc
)
- DECA State competition
- Key club treasurer (10th grade)
- Newspaper international news editor (10th grade)</p>
<p>Tons of community service (about 500 hours):
- Personally translated 2 national park websites from English to French (one in Washington and one in Maine)
- Worked at the front desk, giving tours, managing the gift store etc
- Rebuilt trails in nearby mountains at a green camp for a week, two years in a row.
- Ushered at a small local theater</p>
<p>Work experience:
- Cold Stone (February 2008-august 2008)
- Pizza hut (August 2009- January 2010)
- This is the big one: Internship at Microsoft in the business and marketing team for the US launch of Windows 7 between February 2009 to September 2009. Returning to Microsoft in January after a break (due to contract) to work on the launch of Office 2010 in their team. 2 hours a day after school, 5 days a week. 30 hours/week during summer vacation. In charge of $150,000 worth of windows 7 materials and in charge of working with teams around the US to create hype for the launch of Windows 7. </p>
<p>Essays: I think good
Letters of Rec: My two teachers said they would write good ones, but I have no idea
Counselor: I think its good
Possible extra letter of rec from my manager at Microsoft. She sent it to me, and its honestly one of the most beautiful things I have ever read (not trying to brag here, sorry). Does NYU take extra letters of rec?</p>
<p>Economic bracket: 150,000-200,000
No ancestry at NYU</p>
<p>Really interested in BPE program (show a lot of interest in business and marketing (Microsoft), economic and multi-culturalism (common app essay)). I think I have a descent shot also because of languages, cultural background (essay) etc </p>
<p>Also applied to Stanford early (just found out rejected), UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Irvine, U Washington, UPENN (Wharton), Harvard (just for kicks and giggles), U North Carolina, U Michigan. </p>
<p>What do you think? Can I get in?
Comments, recommendations even for other schools welcome! Thanks!</p>
