International Student - Canada
Intended Major: astrophysics, physics
Public school with around 900 students
Asian male
first generation to college
3.85/4 unweighted GPA
3.86 for UC GPA
Not sure of my weighted GPA
School doesnt do class rank
ACT: 31 (willing to take again in July and September, hopefully 33+)
APs:
AP Psychology (5)
AP Chemistry (probably 5)
AP Physics 1 (probably 5)
Ap Calculus BC (probably 5)
Ap Statistics (hopefully 4)
AP Physics 2 (next yr)
AP Microeconomics (next yr)
AP Calculus AB (next yr)
I took some of these outside of school. Our school only provides like 7 AP courses
Awards:
-A Canadian Math competition honor roll (got an award for receiving highest score in the school but its not that famous)
-UBC Physics Olympics 4th place (team competition)
-small essay competition finalist
-small youth STEAM competition 4th place and received $300
Extracurriculars
-made my own astronomy website(google sites, trying to say without bias but it is honestly pretty good)
-Science club(member)
-STEM Club (general cabinet for 2 years)
-Volunteering Club(general cabinet for a year)
-Astronomy Club(president for one year and quit cause sponsor teacher was so bad)
-Engineering Club(95% chance of being president neat year)
-NASA GBE club(member)
-recycling in local community center(1 year)
-volunteering for local church(2 years, quit last summer)
-Math challenger club (member)
-school orchestra for 4 years
-Boston Leadership Institute-Big Data(summer camp)
-UBC summer volunteering program
-Autodesk CAD/Fusion 360 certificates
-ISSYP summer camp(this summer)
-UBC aerospace engineering program
-gold medal for congressional award
Essays/LORs/Other
-Physics teacher: 9/10
-Math teacher: 9.5/10
Schools:
60%+ chance
-more research needed
30-60% chance
-Drexel
-Arizona State
-UMass Amherst
-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
-Worcester Polytechnic Institute
-University of Florida
10-30% chance
-Purdue
-University of Washington, Seattle
-UIUC
-NYU
-Case Western
-Northeastern
-UCD
-UCI
-UCSD
-UCSB
0-10%
-University of Chicago
-UCB
-UCLA
-Boston University
-USC
-Cornell
ED for Cornell
ED 2 for UChicago
EA for USC, Case Western, UIUC, Northeastern, Georgia Tech
Does this list sound right?
Honestly feel like I am hoping for too much