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Colleges & Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>Asian, male
GPA - Unweighted: 3.94 (2 Bs in 10th grade on US Gov. )
Class Rank: does not rank</p>

<p>Scores:
SAT I Math: 800
SAT I Critical Reading: 700
SAT I Writing: 770</p>

<p>SAT II Bio E: 730
SAT II Physics: 770
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 790</p>

<p>Significant Extracurriculars:
Math:
144 AMC 12, 2 1st place at HMMT, ARML team (top 10 in county), best in school, started a math club in school, few other regional/state math awards, awesome math summer camp </p>

<p>Taken 8 online non credit math classes devoted to problem solving throughout HS… and currently taking linear algebra at a local university for credit… will also take modern algebra and real analysis over EPGY later this year for credit</p>

<p>Music:
3rd in county, varsity marching band and squad leader, best in school, went to a summer music camp where I got 1st chair, few other awards but those r main ones </p>

<p>Research: have done a total of 3 research projects since 9th grade, 2 on math and 1 on bio, im hoping my bio teacher will comment in detail on my bio research as I did not write an essay about my research</p>

<p>Research paper: I am writing a history research paper to submit to some magazines later this year but unfortunately I did not have enough room to talk about this in my essays and this will not surface in any of my recs</p>

<p>Volunteer/Service Work:tutoring, volunteering at local places </p>

<p>President/cofounder of science club</p>

<p>other Honors and Awards: RPI medal award (top math/science student), st. lawrence book award, AP scholar w/ distinction (5’s on Calc BC/AB subscore, physics, bio, english language, and 3 on US Government)</p>

<p>RECOMMENDATIONS:
counselor: most dedicated student ever counseled, talks about my tenacity of about how I thought my course selection this year was too easy and I signed up for linear algebra in addition to my normal courseload, also talks about how I significantly helped a student raise his SAT scores through tutoring</p>

<p>Math teacher: he is really lazy and wrote it on the last day so I am worried he may have bs’ed it… but all the check marks should be the highest</p>

<p>Bio teacher: no clue but should be good… I think he may have talked about my bio research but not sure</p>

<p>optional rec from math university prof: basically, he says im as strong as any of his students that have went to MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, etc. and gives comparisons to some of his well known students who he could see me as later in my life</p>

<p>Essays: this part I think will definitely be a positive but how much, im not sure… but I think some things u could get from these are creativity and my quirky personality and probably some more</p>

<p>thanks a lot… tell me if u need more information on smtg</p>

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<p>I think the “thought course selection was too easy” part of the counselor rec may be percieved as arrogance instead of “intellectual vitality” - just my two cents.</p>

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<p>I think you’ll be fine as long as you sound alive in your essays.</p>

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<p>well basically he meant it like… that i seek challenges and I like to challenge myself and take initiative and responsibility in my own education</p>

<p>i’ve gotten good feedback on my essays so i am pretty confident in them… the only thing im worried about is asian + math + music and stanford seems to like unique people…</p>

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<p>I’m sure your qualified for USAMO, correct?</p>

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<p>errr actually I didn’t get to take the AIME for reasons that i don’t want to talk about and that make me sooo mad!! … but yeah i actually was really hoping to qualify for USAMO especially since i would have gotten a 13 or 14 on the AIME but hopefully a 144 shows a similar level of ability?</p>

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<p>Better than me, so I’d say you’re in pretty good shape. I think, as many people say, that there is some semblance of randomness involved past a certain threshold in the admissions process, but it seems to me that there aren’t significant weaknesses that would make me doubt your future success.</p>